Max Fawcett

Max Fawcett is the former editor of the Chetwynd Echo, a weekly newspaper in the small northern town of Chetwynd, B.C. He currently lives in Edmonton, and works as the managing editor of Alberta Venture Magazine.

On Good Intentions, Gardening, and the Political Left

By Max Fawcett / 2005 June 4
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While participating in a “guerilla gardening” exercise in downtown Toronto, Max Fawcett encounters some uncomfortable but familiar truths about Canada’s political left.

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Trouble Ahead

By Max Fawcett / 2005 April 25
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Max Fawcett discusses the increasingly uncertain future of federalism in Canada, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Prime Minister Paul Martin.

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Truth and Consequences

By Max Fawcett / 2005 January 2
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The Tsunami in Southern Asia is a catastrophe writ large – dead children, destroyed towns, and carnage on an unthinkable scale. It has also spawned another, less immediate, catastrophe: a tidal wave of sentimental bullplop from the Canadian media. Max Fawcett tries to get to the bottom of the increasingly large pile.

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Defending the Indefensible?

By Max Fawcett / 2004 November 19
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Prime Minister Paul Martin’s decision to sack Carolyn Parrish isn’t as clear-cut as the mainstream media is making it out to be. Max Fawcett probes a little deeper and discovers a disturbing hypocrisy at play.

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The Canadian Roadmap

By Max Fawcett / 2004 November 11
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Yasser Araft’s death has raised hopes that a new peace can be brokered between Israel and the Palestinian people. Max Fawcett disagrees, but he has a roadmap of his own that he thinks would actually work. Strangely enough, it comes the pages of our own history here in Canada.

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A Global Hangover

By Max Fawcett / 2004 November 11
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Four years ago the American electorate got a little drunk and took the village idiot home. This time, they married him. What does this mean for the rest of us? Max Fawcett has a couple of ideas.

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Playing to Win

By Max Fawcett / 2004 October 19
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Max Fawcett reminds a friend about the rules of the political game and discusses, in broader terms, how they apply to the Israel-Palestine discourse.

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The Democratic Deficit

By Max Fawcett / 2004 October 14
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Max Fawcett makes some observations about the final Presidential debate between John Kerry and George Bush and asks some questions about the very nature of democracy in the United States.

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It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To

By Max Fawcett / 2004 October 9
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Max Fawcett reviews the second U.S. Presidential debate, and is left with some pretty depressing conclusions.

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Mel Hurtig and the New Maginot Line

By Max Fawcett / 2004 October 4
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Max Fawcett reviews Mel Hurtig’s latest and most articulate polemic yet, Rushing to Armageddon, and sees in it a frightening glimpse of the past…

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