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Max Fawcett

@maxfawcett.bsky.social
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Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer. Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29m
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17m
Super intelligence
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The Economist @economist.com · 1h
A fundamental overhaul is needed. Wealth should be taxed more via capital-gains taxes—and the burden on labour should lighten
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A hurricane is coming to tax systems
Governments should be preparing, but most aren’t
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1h
Sounds good to me.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2h
The key detail here. The ball is now in their court. And if the pipeline simply re-routes existing production away from America and towards other markets? I can live with that.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2h
*taps sign*
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2h
Hooooo boy www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Chinese refiners suspend October fuel exports to bolster stocks, sources say
Chinese refiners have suspended oil product exports for October, four people briefed on the matter said, as Beijing looks to ​preserve domestic stocks, a move that will further crimp war-constrained f...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16h
Super intelligence
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 18h
tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16h
Excellent work Canada.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is better energy journalism than you'll see in most Canadian newspapers today -- and certainly anything coming out of Postmedia in Alberta. I've yet to see any of the talking heads and industry spokespeople actually confront it. energi.media/markham-on-e...
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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand
LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fantastic idea sir!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Opheodrys @opheodrys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This piece by @maxfawcett.bsky.social is outstanding--should be required reading for all CDNs. The US is not in some passing phase or experiencing a temporary glitch that a "turn it off, then on again" Congress will fix. Unfettered capitalism leads to intractable moral & economic decay. 1/3
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Albertans deserve a different vision of the province and country's energy future than the one-sided one their government is trying to feed them. Instead, we get this:
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These are not serious people.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Easiest. Prediction. Ever. Now the actual work begins for the project’s proponents. It won’t be easy. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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New West Coast pipeline expected to be designated project of national interest on Thursday
Pipeline is key part of Carney’s suite of policy changes that aim to reset federal relations with Alberta and diversify exports away from U.S.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
The idea that we are all supposed to stop calling AI “artificial intelligence” after these companies branded it as such for years and suddenly start calling it “SI” and “super intelligence” is cult-like levels of delusion
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026
Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
the left has gotten sports, in its entirety, in the national divorce this is why bluesky is the official app of sports
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Jusqu'ici tout va bien 🇨🇦🇨🇵 @philstr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Americans should be (dare I say it?) mandated to read this.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 29/09/2026
No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 2028 presidential contest, Canadians will not forget how they are being treated right now — or how some Americans react when we fight back, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Actor Dennis Haskins, best known as Principal Richard Belding on “Saved by the Bell,” has died at 75
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Chattanooga native Dennis Haskins, 'Saved by the Bell' principal, dies at 75
Chattanooga native and actor Dennis Haskins, best known as Principal Richard Belding on “Saved by the Bell,” has died at age 75, according to his friend and car
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Grant_M 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦 @grantmountieofanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another banger from @maxfawcett.bsky.social. He's had this sussed out all along: Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right
The politicking around a new west coast oil pipeline is almost done. Now the real work begins — and the real challenge reveals itself.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump working hard here to boost Carney’s approval rating to a perfect 100%!
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
10%. That's how likely @maxfawcett.bsky.social believes a west coast pipeline is to come to fruition despite it soon to be named a major project of national interest. He says Mark Carney has removed excuses for oil companies to invest - but that they won't bite. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
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Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right
Podcast Episode · The Courtney Theriault Show · September 28 · 13m
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Steven Clark @thefwordnb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good reporting with the receipts.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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Okay @okaycondition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Rove's defense, he only wanted to mobilize voters by appealing to open homophobes and racists.
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Connor Turner @ctoverdrive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is such a critical read for this whole pipeline debate that is going to be rolling out later this week.
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George Fraser @frasergeorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will be interesting to see the fortunes of Danielle Smith when she no longer has a scapegoat in Ottawa to blame.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mark Carney is going to declare the West Coast Oil Pipeline in the national interest this week. Then the real work to get it built will have to begin -- and the oil and gas companies keep telling us they aren't prepared to do it. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right
The politicking around a new west coast oil pipeline is almost done. Now the real work begins — and the real challenge reveals itself.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In which Conrad Black simultaneously a) surrenders in advance, and b) gives up the game behind US interference in Alberta's referendum. #cdnpoli
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, it's generally a bad idea to dig in -- and a *really* bad idea to lie about the other side's position on it. And yet. #cdnpoli
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