Max Fawcett is a freelance writer and 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.
Perhaps the real reason for the Alberta government's "ruinously stupid" campaign is to deflect attention from the province's sorry economic state, writes Max Fawcett.
The most recent budget from the government of Alberta included industrial-sized volumes of red ink, and no leader deserves more of the blame than former premier Ralph Klein, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The federal NDP's constant attacks on Trudeau go down well in Alberta, where most people who vote NDP provincially are Liberal supporters, writes Max Fawcett.
When it comes to the conversation about renewable energy and climate change, the falsehoods fly faster and farther than ever before, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
If Erin O’Toole wants to avoid the same fate as Andrew Scheer, writes columnist Max Fawcett, he’ll have to do something that his predecessor couldn’t: take climate change seriously.
In the end, what most Canadians want isn’t an election over the COVID vaccination program but an effective and expeditious delivery rollout, columnist Max Fawcett writes.
"The government is risking Alberta’s multibillion-dollar tourism industry and the health and well-being of millions of Albertans who live, farm and fish downstream in order to potentially create a few hundred jobs and a pitifully small stream of new royalty revenue," columnist Max Fawcett writes.
The government of Alberta has invested more than a billion dollars in the Keystone XL pipeline. If the project goes down, the money vanishes with it, writes Max Fawcett.
