Toronto Star · The Globe and Mail
Ira Wells
Publishing · On our record since 2016
Where this writer stands
Defence1 piece
Restrain spending and deploymentsHigher spending and more capability
“we might believe our current modest numbers, like our emaciated military expenditures over the past few decades, befit the comparatively peaceful world over that period, and Canada's privileged place in it. But that world is changing, and changing fast.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- Meta employees call their tech ‘a drug.’ Canadian kids need an interventionOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 4, 2026
- Danielle Smith’s book-banning government would have you believe this Canadian poet was a pornographerOpinion · Toronto Star · May 3, 2026
- Opinion: A new age of ‘total war’ may be approaching. Are young Canadians ready?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Feb 20, 2026
- Danielle Smith says she doesn’t want to ban ‘classics of literature’ from Alberta schools. Here’s what she really meansOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 7, 2025
- Opinion: You have permission to tune Donald Trump outOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Feb 20, 2025
- Opinion: Democracy is not on the brink. In fact, 2022 might turn out to have been the twilight of autocracyOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Dec 29, 2022
- Ira Wells: The ‘Meh’ Decade: Slouchy flannel, shows about nothing, pre-internet bliss. The ’90s we romanticize — and the one we forgetOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 3, 2022
- Opinion | The ‘Meh’ Decade: Slouchy flannel, shows about nothing, pre-internet bliss. The nineties we romanticize — and the one we forgetOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 3, 2022
- Opinion | Margaret Atwood’s feminist paradox: The art and complicated politics of Canada’s most famous authorOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 17, 2021
- Ira Wells: Margaret Atwood’s feminist paradox: The art and complicated politics of Canada’s most famous authorOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 17, 2021
- Opinion | ‘Solutioning’ through our ‘pain points’: The new biz speak, and why so many people now talk like tech CEOsOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 13, 2021
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 5, 2018
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 5, 2018
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 5, 2018
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 5, 2018
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 5, 2018
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 5, 2018
- Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibilityOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 4, 2018
- Jokerman: The perverse genius of Bob DylanOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 12, 2016
- Jokerman: The perverse genius of Bob DylanOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 12, 2016