Max Fawcett is Canada's National Observer's lead columnist. His brilliant essays and opinions are read and valued by millions of Canadians.
We're not sure how he finds so much time to write three substantial, searing columns a week and tweet through the day. Yet proof that he can and does is vivid on Twitter, where he engages in intense, irreverent conversations on politics and policy, with a special focus on the Kenney government of Alberta.
His Canada's National Observer columns are regularly highlighted on National News Watch, and he is a frequent guest on leading podcasts and radio shows.
Max's eloquent writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Walrus and CBCand he has been an executive editor at both Alberta Oil Magazine and Vancouver Magazine,
For a brief moment in time, public-minded values like community engagement and communal decision-making were allowed to eclipse private interests, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Some topics are just too big to be covered in one column. That’s why, over the next two weeks, Max Fawcett will tackle the housing crisis and the ways we could address it in a series of them. First up: the need for more federal leadership.
The rest of us have already wasted far too much time trying to humour anti-vaxxers' beliefs and accommodate their demands, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Now, it’s time for us to move on — and leave them behind.
We need to look hard at our shared attitude towards public schools and teachers, and why our elected officials have been so willing to make them carry the weight, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
For decades, Alberta’s conservative politicians have complained about the preferential treatment Quebec receives from the federal government and its elected officials, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Instead of cutting ties with the industry, banks and other large financial institutions should use their proverbial gold to make new rules, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The stiff upper lip that characterized the conservative mindset in Great Britain has been replaced in contemporary Canada by a perpetually quivering bottom one, writes columnist
If the Flames ownership group still thinks paying for the climate mitigation measures on their new arena is an expense they can’t afford, they’re about to find out what that really costs, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Neither Doug Ford nor Jason Kenney display the intestinal fortitude needed to stare down anti-vaccine skeptics and do what’s required to protect our hospitals and health-care system, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
