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.
Bob Rae
Opinion

Meet Bob Rae’s new UN colleagues

Paul Wells: It’s possible to admire Bob Rae’s contribution to Canadian public life and, at the same time, to notice that other countries normally send people with far more diplomatic experience to the UN
Trudeau holds a news conference at Big Rig Brewery in Ottawa on June 26, 2020 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)
Ottawa

Justin Trudeau vs. the old boys

Paul Wells: There is a notion, apparently widespread, in the political alumni club that on some key issues we don’t actually have a prime minister.
TAM-WELLS-MAY11
Ottawa

How prepared was Canada?

Paul Wells: Last year, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer wrote a paper on how to plan for a major outbreak. It didn’t imagine anything as menacing as this coronavirus.