Ok, now what? We know the Alberta government is in a fiscal mess. But we don’t know what this means for Albertans. Thanks to the fiscal update from Finance Minister Travis Toews on Thursday, we learned the Alberta government will run a $24.2 billion deficit this year, bringing the total provincial debt to $99.6 billion.

Peter Lougheed had it. So did Ralph Klein. Jason Kenney most definitely does not. It is that most precious of qualities that has defined Alberta’s successful premiers and, by its absence, damned the rest. I’m talking here about luck.

Premier Jason Kenney is fluent in both of Canada’s official languages. Yet he can’t seem to communicate with Alberta’s teachers. That became evident this week when Kenney and the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) butted heads yet again over the government’s investment arm, the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, commonly known as AIMCo. The government is forcing the teachers’ $18-billion pension fund,…

If a week is a long time in politics, a year is an eternity. And for Premier Jason Kenney it must seem like a lifetime. A year ago Kenney was celebrating a decisive electoral victory over the NDP after running on a campaign platform that could be summed up in three words: jobs, economy, pipelines. A year later he is…

It was bitter medicine. And nary a drop of sugar to help it go down. Premier Jason Kenney’s address to Albertans Tuesday night was perhaps the most sombre and downright bleak speech ever delivered by an Alberta premier, certainly the darkest among the televised “fireside chats” that began with Peter Lougheed in the early 1980s.