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Wells on Harper on CBC
It was a great pleasure to be a guest on CBC Radio’s The Current this morning. We discussed my new Maclean’s e-book, The Harper Decade.
Hey look: the vast left-wing conspiracy covers the vast right-wing conspiracy
We’re brimming over with fresh bitumen this week at Maclean’s, where I’ve got a story connecting the Harper government with the Ethical Oil movement, and Colleague Nancy Macdonald has another one, perhaps more significant over the medium term, pointing out that one reason why the government is so eager to pick fights with shady foreign billionaires and oil sheikhs is that that’s easier than defeating northern British Columbia aboriginal communities.
Political editor
There’s been some chatter on Twitter to the effect that I’ll be the new Political Editor at Maclean’s, effective immediately. (Actually, effective last week, but we couldn’t announce it yet. That’s what I was doing at the story meeting last Wednesday, colleagues!)
Hey look: Harper’s new Ford
From the print edition, my new column ponders the meaning of that big picnic in Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s mom’s back yard, at which the surprise guest was Stephen Harper.
Hey look: We can cancel the majority parliament because I’ve told you everything that will happen in it
From the magazine, my latest column predicts the future with the startling accuracy you’ve come to expect from Team 2012.
Hey look: a story as long as the campaign it describes
Maclean’s is running my very long history of the 2011 election (with reporting from John, Aaron, Marty and many others) in serial instalments. The first parts are online now.
Hey look: Harper’s hidden-in-plain-sight agenda
From the magazine, and posted here a little ahead of its newsstand début, my latest column. Not as long as my campaign articles often are, but I hope it says something significant. If you add up all of the Conservatives’ plans, you get a federal government that will play an ever-dwindling role in the life of the nation. I think this election is about Harper finally making his big fiscal-conservative play. A lot of voters will think this is excellent. A lot would disagree. But it’s a great big debate we could be having if we were not distracted by small potatoes, and it’s a big decision we will make whether we have the debate or not.
Hey look: Which one was Reuben Kincaid?
From the magazine, my written-on-deadline column about Tuesday’s English-language leaders’ debate. It ends more seriously than it begins:
Hey look: Election speculation, 2020 edition
From the magazine, my latest column proposes Jason Kenney and Justin Trudeau as the future of Canadian politics.