Stranger than fiction: Alberta politics has entered the realm of absurd melodrama Alberta politics needs a new dictionary, or maybe a thesaurus — a source for words to better describe the province’s political landscape that is beginning to resemble a badly written soap opera. The situation Alberta finds itself in has been called “unprecedented” and “historic” and just plain “bizarre.”…

Brian Jean’s byelection win sets the stage for showdown with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney The melodrama that is Alberta politics has just become a street brawl. And newly elected MLA Brian Jean is bringing his brass knuckles — along with almost five years’ worth of anger and resentment. For Jean, winning the Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche byelection Tuesday night was…

Alberta’s budget is bizarrely a win-win for both Kenney and Notley It seems fitting in so many ways that the official title of Alberta’s new provincial budget is “Moving Forward.” This is a budget focused on a bright smooth road ahead, not the potholed recession-ridden dirt path we clanked along the past two years. For the Alberta government, this is…

Jason Kenney sees opportunity in political chaos The country is in chaos and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney couldn’t be happier. “Freedom convoys” have impeded people’s freedoms, the prime minister is invoking the federal Emergencies Act, and Canadians are divided over lifting pandemic restrictions. For many people, these are problems; for Kenney, they are opportunities.

As Coutts anti-mandate blockade continues, Alberta government plans to drop vaccine passports Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Or in this case, sow the conflict, reap the cross-border blockade. On January 22, Premier Jason Kenney declared in a tweet that “Ottawa’s trucker vaccine mandate has to go.” Days later, a truck convoy of protesters angry at the vaccine mandate began…