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Max Fawcett

Max Fawcett

Lead Columnist | Calgary
About Max Fawcett

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 Smith government of Alberta.

His Canada's National Observer columns are regularly highlighted on National Newswatch, and he is a frequent guest on leading podcasts and radio shows. He won the 2023 National Newspaper Award for best columnist, and also picked up a National Magazine Award in 2021 for his columns. 

Max's writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Walrus and CBC and he has been an executive editor at both Alberta Oil Magazine and Vancouver Magazine.

He lives in Calgary.

474 Articles

Kevin O’Leary is playing Alberta for a $70 billion fool

If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. When it’s a $70 billion data centre called “Wonder Valley” that will supposedly be built from scratch in the middle of the northern Alberta wilderness, one that will apparently feature swans and deer casually moseying around a futuristic-looking campus, that should set off some pretty noisy warning bells. And when the person pitching it is Kevin O’Leary? Well, red alert.
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