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.”

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…