Max Fawcett

The Liberals don't have many winning issues right now, but their new policy for oil and gas emissions (and the reflexive Conservative backlash against it) might just be one. If they're smart, they'll use it to give Pierre Poilievre the carbon tax election he never wanted.

Pierre Poilievre gives India’s interference the silent treatment

Canadians, and especially younger ones, are dead tired of dealing with a housing market that continues to punish renters and prospective buyers while rewarding older homeowners with a seemingly endless bounty of price appreciation and untaxed capital gains.

The rent is still too damn high

When Pierre Trudeau decided it was time to leave office, he took a walk in the snow. At the rate things are going for Justin Trudeau, that’s a luxury he may not have; the sand on Vancouver Island’s beaches may have to do.

Why Russia’s influencer campaign matters to Canada

Why is a populist politician like Danielle Smith pursuing unpopular policies and positions? Because she understands where the real threat lies for a conservative premier. As former conservative premiers like Jason Kenney have learned the hard way, the call almost always comes from inside the house.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh pulled the plug on his party's supply and confidence deal Wednesday. Singh’s decision, coming on the heels of Poilievre’s attempts to bully him into breaking faith with the government, looks like a show of weakness rather than strength.

The war room’s long list of self-owns and other humiliating defeats is so well and widely known by now that even its staunchest defenders quietly acknowledge them. There will be no tearful eulogies for its contribution to the conversation around energy policy in Canada, and the only people who will miss it are the ones — like me — who used its constant follies as fodder for their own output.

Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says that holding the oil and gas sector to the promises it has made Canadians in its messaging would be “crippling.” If that is true, then it suggests those promises don’t hold up to any real scrutiny.

When it comes to the question of foreign interference in Canadian democracy, the Conservative Party of Canada leader has been uncharacteristically quiet.

Two reports that exaggerate the cost of an emissions cap to the oil and gas industry are excellent data points in support of Mark Twain’s dim view of statistics, and both are shaped by assumptions — presumably directed by the organizations funding them — that have no resemblance to reality.

The former governor of the Bank of Canada has said that Trudeau will lead the Liberals into the next election, but that hasn’t stopped Conservatives from mounting political attacks against him. New polling suggests they should be more wary about goading him into joining the race.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith might not like Justin Trudeau, but she needs him more than anyone else in Canada.

Canada’s Conservatives need to get serious about the province’s oil and gas industry — otherwise, it will be left in the dust by a global energy transition supercharged by Chinese manufacturing.

The Conservative Party leader is busy trading in obvious and inflammatory lies about the prime minister and his apparent responsibility for everything bad that’s ever happened since he was elected in 2015 — including, apparently, every single death from toxic drugs such as fentanyl.

It started with a few freelance pieces during the pandemic, then a few more, and finally a full-time gig.

Alberta’s United Conservative Party is hosting a gathering of some of Canada’s most noxious vaccine skeptics for a conversation about the supposed risks posed by mRNA technology to children. What could go wrong?

In 2015, it was Justin Trudeau’s Liberals outflanking the NDP to its left. Now, it’s Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives doing the same thing with blue-collar voters. Why it’s time for the NDP to return the favour — and why they’ll lose if they don’t.

A Welsh legislator has proposed a new law against lying in politics in his country. Ask yourself what’s more outlandish: his idea or the extent to which we already tolerate lying in our political discourse?