Paul Wells
Maclean's Magazine
Ottawa, ON, Canada
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The truckers brought chaos to Ottawa. What can we learn from them?
Paul Wells: How the misguided fuelling of an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality gave us chaos and a hot tub on Parliament Hill → Read More
O'Toole is out. Meet the new new new new Conservatives
Paul Wells: What lessons does Erin O'Toole offer for the Conservatives? The numbers are against them and the firewall against U.S. conservatism has collapsed. → Read More
The future of the Liberal Party—without Justin Trudeau
Paul Wells: The biggest question in Canadian politics in 2022 is whether Trudeau will still be PM when the year is done. The Grits may be forced to consider life after him—and what they even stand for without him. → Read More
Erin O'Toole, unresponsive
Paul Wells: Without power or focus once again, the Conservative Party has been left disappointed—and alone with the voices in its head → Read More
The new conductor of Montreal's famous orchestra 'looks like fun but sounds like business'
Paul Wells: New Orchestre symphonique de Montréal conductor Rafael Payare stunned a crowd of thousands of Montrealers → Read More
The broken triumph of Justin Trudeau
Paul Wells: Why does it feel like the country isn’t any better off after this election? Perhaps because the problems Canada faces demand hard choices, and modern election campaigns reward denial and emojis. → Read More
In Afghanistan, the signs of our failure were everywhere
Paul Wells: How did the West get things so terribly wrong? → Read More
Justin Trudeau won election 2021. His problems now are the problems of power.
Paul Wells on the Canadian federal election result: Justin Trudeau's problems now are the problems of power. And they are fantastic problems compared to the ones Erin O'Toole will face. → Read More
Seat projection suggests a narrow Liberal victory
A new projection prepared for Maclean's by Innovative Research suggests the Liberals will lose seats but keep power. The biggest gains may be made by the NDP. → Read More
Federal election 2021: Is a Conservative minority government even possible?
Paul Wells: It would hang on how the opposition parties vote, of course. And it's hard to imagine the NDP paving the way for Erin O'Toole to become prime minister. → Read More
On climate, at last, Justin Trudeau is all in
Paul Wells: It's become a handy rule of thumb to assume this government will take the easy way out. Not this time. → Read More
Michael Sabia, a busy mandarin, heads to the top post at Finance
Paul Wells: Ottawa is set to appoint Micheal Sabia as the new deputy minister of finance → Read More
The Great Reset is mostly just Liberals blowing off steam. Mostly.
Paul Wells: In his criticism of the Liberals' plans, Pierre Poilievre goes too far. He is also not always wrong. → Read More
The future is virtual? Nope.
The pandemic has made it clear in more ways than we would have thought to count: you actually need to be there → Read More
What if Donald Trump loses?
Paul Wells: The job of a president Joe Biden would be leading the cleanup crew after a vandal. At stake: the entire American project. → Read More
Trudeau calls this a time of 'unprecedented opportunity.' All righty, then.
Paul Wells: The Prime Minister calls this a time of ‘unprecedented opportunity.’ Will Canadians agree? → Read More
Erin O'Toole and the search for a new Canadian centre
Paul Wells: The Conservatives need to remake their movement for a new era. Is their new leader the person to do it? → Read More
The doomed 30-year battle to stop a pandemic
Paul Wells: For decades, researchers and officials obsessed with planning to stop an outbreak. Then along came COVID-19 and we were sitting ducks. What went wrong? → Read More
Can the forces of globalization ever hope to outlast the coronavirus?
Paul Wells: Openness and trust were fraying before COVID-19. The damage done to this world view is certain to last. → Read More
Four days worth of Justin Trudeau's patience
Paul Wells: Exactly what happened between Tuesday’s call for calm and Friday’s ‘the barricades must come down’? → Read More