Paul Wells
Senior Columnist for Maclean's Magazine
As Senior Columnist for Maclean's magazine, Paul Wells is one of Canada's foremost political commentators. Fresh, funny and authoritative, he was hailed by Mordecai Richler as "a columnist for whom I have the highest regard" and by Robert Fulford as "a first-class Ottawa reporter." His first book, Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism was a national bestseller. He has written for Time magazine, the National Post, La Presse and the Literary Review of Canada. His blog, Inkless Wells, is required reading in Ottawa and wherever people spend too much time worrying about politics.
As Senior Columnist for Maclean's magazine, Paul Wells is one of Canada's foremost political commentators.
Fresh, funny and authoritative, he was hailed by Mordecai Richler as "a columnist for whom I have the highest regard" and by Robert Fulford as "a first-class Ottawa reporter." His first book, Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism was a national bestseller. He has written for Time magazine, the National Post, La Presse and the Literary Review of Canada. His blog, "Inkless Wells", is required reading in Ottawa and wherever people spend too much time worrying about politics. A veteran television and radio commentator whose insights have educated and entertained audiences in French and English, Wells recently returned from a year in Paris as Maclean's Europe correspondent, where he reported from Germany, Poland, the UK, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Paul studied at the University of Western Ontario and the Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris. He is on the Advisory Committee of the new Glendon School of Public Affairs and is a Fellow of the new School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.
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Canada and the World
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Ottawa and the Provinces
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The Harper Government
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Federal Electoral Processes
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Inside Ottawa
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October 2006Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism
The fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper’s New Conservatism is chronicled in Wells’ Right Side Up. In the space of three years, Martin went from his new role as the leader of an all-powerful party with a huge majority down to a retired also-ran. Harper reluctantly stepped in to salvage a dying party, linked it to another dying party, “united the right,†became its leader, and rose to become Prime Minister. Wells takes us through all of the events that led up to the election campaign of January 2006.
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Dans sa fonction de chroniqueur principal pour le magazine Maclean's, Paul Wells est reconnu comme l'un des commentateurs politiques les plus en vue du Canada.
Wells s'est mérité, grâce à sa fraîcheur, son sens de l'humour et son caractère autoritaire, le commentaire suivant de la part de Mordecai Richler : « C'est le chroniqueur auquel je porte le plus grand des respects ». Robert Fulford, quant à lui, l'a acclamé comme « un chroniqueur d'Ottawa de haut niveau ». Le premier livre de Wells intitulé Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism a connu un succès de niveau national. Wells a écrit à la fois pour le magazine Time, le National Post, le journal La Presseet la Literary Review of Canada. Son blogue « Inkless Wells » est incontournable parmi les habitants d'Ottawa et tous ceux pour qui la politique est d'un grand intérêt. Paul Wells est un commentateur radio et télé d'expérience dont les points de vue ont éclairé et passionné les auditoires francophone et anglophone. Il revient tout juste d'un séjour d'un an à Paris, où il a été correspondant pour le magazine Maclean's pour l'Europe. Durant cette période, il a fait des reportages en Allemagne, en Pologne, au Royaume-Uni, en Afghanistan et au Pakistan.
Né à Sarnia en Ontario, Monsieur Wells a fait ses études à l'Université Western Ontario et à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris. Il est membre du comité consultatif de la nouvelle École des affaires publiques de Glendon et également professeur à la toute récente École de politiques publiques et de gouvernance de l'Université de Toronto.
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