“The province is facing a fiscal crisis because of a sudden drop in the price of oil. Isn’t this territory as familiar as the back of our hands? Oh, the causes might be new — the COVID-19 virus playing havoc with stock markets as a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia wreaks chaos with oil prices — but the territory…

Once upon a time, not so long ago, Alberta’s New Democrats hoped Premier Jason Kenney would not stay long in provincial politics. They longed for the day he’d use his election victory in Alberta to catapult himself back to his first love: federal politics. But they dream of that no more. Not because Kenney has made it clear he is…

DEAR WAR ROOM: I realize you’ve called yourself the “Canadian Energy Centre” since opening shop last fall, but we all know you’re the War Room as promised in the United Conservative Party’s platform during the 2019 provincial election campaign. And you have declared war on what Premier Jason Kenney has called the “campaign of lies, of defamation and disinformation based…

We should have seen it coming. The first inkling that controversy would dog Jason Kenney’s victory in the 2017 United Conservative Party leadership race came not during that contest but a year earlier, when Kenney ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives.

I have always tried to avoid getting into arguments with Alberta premiers. After all, as a journalist it’s my job to question politicians, not quarrel with them. But sometimes premiers seem to want to get into arguments with journalists.