Max Fawcett is the former editor of Alberta Oil and Vancouver magazines. His work has been published in the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Walrus and CBC. He lives in Calgary.
Columnist Max Fawcett says David Suzuki has been a lot of things over the course of his 85 years: a scientist, a TV personality, a grandfather and, through it all, a dedicated environmentalist. But a terrorist?
If we’re going to ask future generations to carry this weight on our behalf, they deserve to know who put it on their shoulders in the first place, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
"For too long, the political conversation around density and development in our biggest cities has been dominated by a relatively small group of privileged homeowners."
Conservatives in Canada continue to place the rights of people who haven't taken a COVID-19 vaccine over their responsibilities to everyone else, including health-care workers.
"We seem to constantly deal with improvised targets of ever-increasing ambition from a federal government that’s never come close to meeting its targets,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said.
The victory climate activists are declaring in Quebec could easily prove to be pyrrhic, given the obvious risk of blowback in Alberta — and potentially in Ottawa, says columnist Max Fawcett.
If irony could power our vehicles and heat our homes, we’d never need to drill for another barrel of oil in Western Canada again, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
If there's one clear message to come out of Trudeau's latest cabinet announcement, it's that Ottawa is preparing to press ahead on climate change, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
