I’m pretty sure this is 2021 but I’m beginning to wonder if I’m back in 2009. A troubling sense of déjà vu began descending on Tuesday during a news conference where Alberta politicians touted a government-supported technological solution to human-made climate change. Say hello again to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), now under a new alias: carbon capture utilization and…

He is a one-man minefield—set to explode whenever Premier Jason Kenney makes a misstep. And there’s not much Kenney can do to defuse him. Say hello to Drew Barnes, United Conservative MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat.

Before delivering the new provincial budget Thursday, Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews bought himself new cowboy boots. A pair of ballet shoes would have been more appropriate. Toews’s budget does a lot of dancing, much of it on eggshells. This is a budget that is afraid of suffering another embarrassing pratfall like the one performed last year when Toews tabled…

Are you wondering what happened to the “fiscal reckoning” that Premier Jason Kenney kept warning us about last year? You know, the “great fiscal reckoning in the future” that Kenney mentioned so many times in 2020 it became something of a mantra, if not a threat. He provided no details and so Albertans were left to wonder if Kenney was…

The only thing more predictable than President Biden revoking the pipeline’s permit was Premier Jason Kenney’s outrage. “This is a gut punch for the Canadian and Alberta economies,” said Kenney. “It is an insult directed at the United States’ most important ally and trading partner on Day One of a new administration.”