Articles
Brian Fawcett tries to figure out whether multiculturalism is for or against racism.
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.
Brian Fawcett files a longer, more rant-filled version of a piece first published in The Tyee in early October
A street encounter makes Ryan Knighton think twice about British Columbia’s not-exactly controversial Safe Streets Act
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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.
Brian Fawcett crawled out of a two week U.S. Election funk with a serious hangover. He explains why.
William Blake declared that “the tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.” In a passage from his forthcoming book, The Short Version, Stan Persky puts in a word for the plodding horses.
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.
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.