Archive - Paul Wells

The Summer Reading Episode

At last, a fresh podcast. Proudfoot, Reid, Woods and Wells on the joy of a book and time to read it

9 hrs ago •

46:50

Carney's clarity act

If the government's going to change how it spends, it should change how it talks about spending

Jul 14 •

The Q&A: "Spending targets need to be accompanied by very clear capability targets"

Defense analyst Minna Ålander on the substance and the noise in a historic year for NATO

Jul 12 •

Encore: The social-media chaos machine

Author Max Fisher on his definitive book about Big Algorithm

Jul 9 •

46:40

To NATO's top civilian, the alliance makes no sense without Trump. Plus: a letter from the new Clerk (not to me)

Jul 8 •

Binney: A Montreal story

At Montreal's jazz festival, music wins

Jul 5 •

The Q&A: "It was going to be complicated and messy"

A tax expert on the departed Digital Services Tax, and the fiscal and policy holes it leaves behind

Jul 5 •

The Canadian face

A new book makes well-earned noise for the Kingston Prize, which has been fuelling a renaissance in Canadian portrait art for two decades

Jul 3 •

Encore: Sarah Slean on Joni Mitchell

"Then you listen in your 40s and you're like, 'Oh.'"

Jul 2 •

37:44

June 2025

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