When word leaked this week that Joe Biden would pull the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline project the first day he’s sworn in as president, the only person who seemed shocked was Premier Jason Kenney. “We hope president-elect Biden will show respect for Canada and will sit down and at the very least talk to us,” said Kenney during an online…

If Alberta Premier Jason Kenney feels like he’s at the bottom of a deep, dark political hole, he should realize he dug it himself. And it seems he does. Sort of. After avoiding reporter’s questions for much of the week, Kenney held a news conference Thursday to apologize to irate Albertans about what has come to be called “Hawaii-gate” where…

This was not supposed to be yet another column about COVID-19. This was supposed to be a review of the fall sitting of the Alberta legislature and all the things that happened while we were distracted by the pandemic. But the coronavirus is like sand at a beach picnic — it gets into everything.

After months of pleading with Albertans to take “personal responsibility” to stop the spread of COVID-19, Premier Jason Kenney has finally taken personal responsibility himself. On Tuesday, he reluctantly announced the kind of sweeping COVID-19 restrictions he had been tersely rejecting for weeks. He is now ordering everyone to wear a mask in public spaces everywhere in Alberta. And nobody is…

Buried amidst the ongoing COVID confusion and controversy this week in Alberta came a bit of unusual news: the UCP government and NDP opposition agreed on something. It wasn’t exactly a Kumbaya moment but the two battling political parties that have turned the legislature’s daily question period into a form of trench warfare finally see eye-to-eye on an issue. They’re…