What to do when the boss has a dumb idea
Paul Wells on self-censorship within news organizations
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Paul Wells
Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.
Health transfers: More on flat tires and etiquette
Paul Wells on how Ottawa never offers to negotiate when preparing to cut or limit transfers
Harper’s flat-tire federalism
The PM will spend ever more money on jets and jails, while taxing less than any federal government has since the 1960s
Peter MacKay in Munich: Let’s not be pound foolish
It is worth a little money to make sure the world’s governments are sort-of kind-of on the same page
Havel in Ottawa, 1999
Vaclav Havel died today. Perhaps my friends at the National Post won’t mind if I reproduce the column I wrote for that paper’s...
Reading Christopher Hitchens reading
Paul Wells on Hitchens why matters
Toward Canada-Europe trade. Incoming flack.
All the hard decisions have been put off to now, and now all the hard decisions are being made
Quebec’s not making it easier for the NDP to pick a leader
If New Democrats chose a leader with roots in the province but residence outside it, they’d only be doing what they did in 2003
Amid an emergency in Attawapiskat—a strategy
WELLS: Short attention spans will get the focus off Attawapiskat. Fixing the actual problem will take longer.
Terrance Wills
At about this time, every year, Terry Wills would take us out to Christmas lunch: Hy’s, maybe, or the Parliamentary restaurant, or...