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,
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.
When the federal government inevitably refuses Jason Kenney's demand for a blank cheque worth more than $30 billion, we’ll get the usual mixture of victimhood and grievance-mongering, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
In this COVID-19 remake of Groundhog Day, the lessons will keep getting taught until our leaders finally find a way to learn them, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is well-positioned to take Trudeau’s job, so now the question becomes, will help her win? asks columnist Max Fawcett.
According to a recent report, the federal government is in the process of developing regulations to allow oil producers to treat and release the water in those ponds, which contain toxic chemicals like mercury, ammonia and naphthenic acids.
For a movement that talks incessantly about the dangers fiscal deficits pose to future generations, conservatives seem curiously uninterested in letting those future generations have their say, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Pierre Poilievre loves nothing more than to blame Justin Trudeau for things that aren’t his fault, and that’s especially true with his recent crusade against inflation, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
