Feb 14 2020 — Max Fawcett — Globe and Mail — Since Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party was elected to government in 2015, the Prime Minister has approved two major pipeline projects, expressed enthusiastic support for another one, invested $275-million in a major LNG project and made the completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion one of its most high-profile promises. And yet, to hear many Albertans […]
Jan 22 2020 — Max Fawcett — CBC — Jason Kenney, it turns out, is not invincible. After two years of bending the political universe to his will, that universe started to fight back in 2019. His much ballyhooed “war room” keeps finding new and exciting ways to shoot itself in the foot, small business confidence is faltering, and the cuts to health and […]
Jan 4 2020 — Max Fawcett — Globe and Mail — Alberta’s United Conservative Party government may be cutting funding for education in the province, but its new war room – sorry, “Canadian Energy Centre” – provided a whole host of teachable moments during its disastrous first week in December. First, chief executive Tom Olsen turned an interview into a PR disaster by telling the reporter […]