I am not retired. I did not retire. I have no plans to retire. Let’s just get that straight, shall we? In 2018, I took a voluntary buyout from Postmedia. But I never stopped covering politics. I have been writing regularly for the CBC, iPolitics and Alberta Views Magazine. Plus I have been continuing my weekly appearances on CBC’s Radio…

I have to admit, I’ve always had trouble understanding exactly what it is that Grant Hunter, Alberta’s associate minister of red-tape reduction, actually does. It would seem Hunter himself has the same problem.

Pandemic? What pandemic? Watching Alberta politics these days is like riding a time machine into the past when COVID-19 didn’t exist or into a future where it’s been conquered. Or perhaps we woke up in a parallel universe. Because Alberta politics is beginning to act as if the pandemic suddenly disappeared.

During debate in the legislature, premier referred to the virus as ‘influenza’ six times Premier Jason Kenney is tired of the COVID-19 pandemic. And who isn’t?

Well, so much for Alberta’s War Room setting the record straight. Or for telling Alberta’s story to the world. Or whatever it is the War Room (a.k.a. the Canadian Energy Centre) is supposed to do.