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Paul Wells

Reporter · CA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 31, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Jul 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Paul Wells

    Canada Had No Choice but to Walk Away from Trump | The Walrus (opens the original)

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    “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it,” George Orwell wrote in 1984. “It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.” You don’t need me to tutor you in Orwell, but, to me, the important parts are that this surreal demand was “inevitable” and that everyone would “have to believe it.” What’s haunting is how silly the demand is: objectively, no good can come from counting wrong.

  2. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Paul Wells

    Why I Stopped Trusting Foreign Policy Experts | The Walrus (opens the original)

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    Like most journalists, I came up local: student council, city hall, bigger city hall, Parliament. I didn’t do much journalism outside Canada for a long time, mostly because there seemed to be no way in but also because global affairs felt like the preserve of superbly educated people who understood the world’s exquisite subtleties. When I started covering international relations more frequently, I began to realize that people who specialize in global affairs—decision makers, journalists, academi

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