[2] Wells's first book, Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism, debuted in October 2006 and quickly appeared on multiple Canadian best seller lists.

[4] He won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2014 for his book The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006.

[7] In addition to his work in print journalism, he has also hosted the political talk show Maclean's Live for CPAC.

On 8 May 2008, Wells criticized Robert Dutrisac, Christian Rioux and Michel David for their bowdlerization of Canadian history in the service of Quebec separatists.

His angle is that these Quebec journalists downplay any Canadian history before the Quiet Revolution of Jean Lesage, because it is inconvenient for the separatists.