$3.5-million provincial inquiry into ‘anti-Alberta’ activities struggles to find a bad guy

Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage is urging all Albertans to read the final report of the government-sponsored Steve Allan public inquiry into anti-Albertan activities. I’m not sure how many people will do that considering the report that is 650 pages long. So, let me sum up the inquiry’s conclusion into one brief paragraph from Allan himself: “To be very clear,…

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The Great Distracto

Jason Kenney, master illusionist If Premier Jason Kenney is ever looking for a career outside of politics, might I suggest stage magician? For he is a master of manipulation, misdirection and sleight of hand. He’s trying to convince Albertans that on October 18 he will pull elected senators out of a hat—while sawing the Constitution in half.

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Crisis? What crisis? Alberta premier massages the message with his fast and loose use of facts, figures

After months of feeding carrots to vaccine-hesitant Albertans, Premier Jason Kenney is breaking out the stick. Sort of.

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The biggest loser in Monday’s federal election might just be Jason Kenney

As federal Conservatives cut through the clutter of the election to figure out why they lost, they’ll be pointing their knives in the direction of embattled Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. They are upset, to say the least, with Kenney for so mishandling the fourth wave of the pandemic that he became an issue in the final week of the election…

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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s wounds may be self-inflicted but are they politically fatal?

Can Jason Kenney survive politically ? That’s the question facing Alberta’s premier as he refuses to take responsibility for allowing a disastrous fourth wave of the pandemic to overtake the province’s health-care system.

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