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Max Fawcett

Max Fawcett (@maxfawcett) is a former editor of Alberta Oil and Vancouver magazines.
Current Affairs / September 2019

What Do We Do About SNC-Lavalin?

August 13, 2019August 14, 2019 - by Max Fawcett

How to deal with companies that misbehave

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Business / July/August 2019

Airbnb Versus Everyone

June 12, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

How the tech platform crowds the housing market and threatens neighbourhoods

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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney stands with his arms open as he speaks to reporters after appearing at the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
Current Affairs / Politics

The Political Downside of Saving the Planet

May 15, 2019November 17, 2019 - by Max Fawcett

Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan was ambitious and smart. So why was it so easy for Jason Kenney to kill it?

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Three young people hoisting up a statue from a cliffside
Business / May 2019 / Politics

Will the Boomers Cause a Financial Bust?

April 9, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

The group that lucked out in the generational lottery is now making millennials cover their low taxes and rising health care costs

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Cities

You Don’t Need to Buy that House

April 21, 2017December 22, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

Canada’s housing market is not the problem. Our fixation on home ownership is

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Photo by kenneth-cheung
Business

Why Your Taxes Keep Bailing Out Bombardier

April 4, 2017July 2, 2021 - by Max Fawcett

With so many jobs and so much money on the line, the company is running the political equivalent of a protection racket

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Illustration by IvanNikulin
Society

It’s Time to Stop Subsidizing Canada’s Seniors

March 8, 2017June 9, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

Good policy should serve the interests of future generations, not protect the privileges inherited by previous ones

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Illustration by Meredith Holigroski
March 2017 / Technology

Pressure Test

February 21, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

Can a pipeline ever be 100 percent safe?

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Illustration by The Walrus
Politics

Why Kevin O’Leary Might Win the Leadership Race and Lose the Election

February 10, 2017November 17, 2019 - by Max Fawcett

An outrageous, unqualified businessman enters politics with a promise to shake things up. Sound familiar?

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Business

Overpaid Bosses

January 12, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Max Fawcett

Can anything be done to control the obscene salaries of CEOs?

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