“As the pandemic grew day by day at an alarming speed, the only thing keeping pace has been the increasing acrimony between the United Conservative government and the NDP Opposition.”

It’s not as if they embraced and agreed to form a coalition government.  But on Wednesday afternoon, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Opposition leader Rachel Notley did give each other a verbal hug. It wasn’t the end of political hostilities but it was reassuring to see the two combatants — who have not downed weapons during the COVID-19 pandemic — give each…

On Tuesday afternoon, Premier Jason Kenney declared the COVID-19 pandemic a public health emergency that “will test all of us.” Will it ever. It will test our emergency workers, our doctors, our nurses, our first responders. It will test the strength of our communities and the bonds of our society.  For parents trapped in self-isolation with children, it will be…

“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…