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.

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…

As if things weren’t already bad enough for Premier Jason Kenney as he leads Alberta through a pandemic and unprecedented economic collapse, he’s now being sued by Alberta doctors. For Kenney, who’s been trying to portray himself as a noble wartime leader, this is a public relations nightmare of Biblical proportions. It would be like Rachel Notley, when she was…