I think COVID-19 is trying to tell Premier Jason Kenney something. For the second time in less than a month, Kenney has been forced into quarantine after being exposed to someone who has tested positive for the virus. Kenney broke the news to reporters on Thursday, not in person but as a disembodied voice on the phone during a government…

He is our own harbinger of doom. When Premier Jason Kenney turns up at one of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s regular pandemic updates nowadays, we know we’re in trouble. On Friday, for the first time in many weeks, Kenney shared the podium with Alberta’s chief medical officer of health to discuss the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the province.

For everyone who wants to see life return to pre-pandemic normal, I give you this week’s wildcat strike by Alberta health support workers. This is the strike — or one quite like it — we would have seen earlier this year if it wasn’t for the pandemic. Of course, COVID-19 screwed up the timetable, as it’s done so effectively with…

Call it ironic or odd or surreal. But there was definitely something troubling about the optics of the Alberta government’s news conference on Thursday at Calgary’s International Airport. Jobs Minister Doug Schweitzer announced an experimental program that will use testing and monitoring to reduce the self-isolating period for arriving international travellers down to just a few days from the current…

These days, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney must feel like he’s trapped in a multi-dimensional vise, being squeezed from all possible directions. He’s under pressure from a flailing economy, the miserable price of oil, a $24-billion deficit, frustrated voters, environmental groups, public sector unions, the Joe Biden campaign, and, of course, the NDP opposition. He’s even facing internal strain from his…