Why Meslier matters
This past summer I got to take a trip to France, and while I was there I scooted off for …
Author Archives: Max Fawcett
The urge to merge
Right now, members of both the Liberal Party of Canada and the NDP must feel like they’re watching a bad …
The impatient idealist
Everyone loves Kai Nagata, it seems. The former CTV on-air journalist who quit his job and then wrote a 3,000 …
Silence of the lambs
Under Ken Whyte’s stewardship Maclean’s Magazine has enjoyed a return to relevance in recent years, but it has also earned …
Star search
In theory, the decision taken more than 30 years ago to permit live radio and television broadcasting of the activity …
What goes down will have to come up
A few years back, when I lucked into a guest appearance on “The Hour: With George Stroumboulopoulos” in order to …
Spin city
It’s a funny thing, really. On the one hand, as I wrote last week, journalists have a bad habit of …
We all fall down
I’m not usually one for New Year’s Resolutions (although I’ve made a few of my own this year, for a …
Stuck in the middle with Sue
If Christmas is the season for all manner of things shiny and new, then it’s fitting that the Alberta Party …
Boomsday
The rest of the world might be looking ahead to 2012 with varying degrees of apocalypse-oriented anxiety, but in Canada …
