Premier Jason Kenney has entered the United Conservative Party race to replace him as leader. Not as a candidate — but as a meddler. Kenney didn’t so much dive as belly-flop into the race this week, with an awkward attack on a proposal from perceived frontrunner Danielle Smith. She is championing a controversial “Alberta Sovereignty Act” that she says would allow…

Stranger than fiction: Alberta politics has entered the realm of absurd melodrama Alberta politics needs a new dictionary, or maybe a thesaurus — a source for words to better describe the province’s political landscape that is beginning to resemble a badly written soap opera. The situation Alberta finds itself in has been called “unprecedented” and “historic” and just plain “bizarre.”…

Jason Kenney sees opportunity in political chaos The country is in chaos and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney couldn’t be happier. “Freedom convoys” have impeded people’s freedoms, the prime minister is invoking the federal Emergencies Act, and Canadians are divided over lifting pandemic restrictions. For many people, these are problems; for Kenney, they are opportunities.

The political vultures are circling. A bit prematurely perhaps, but they’re here at the annual general meeting of the United Conservative Party this weekend in Calgary.

No matter what happens at this weekend’s United Conservative Party convention in Calgary, Jason Kenney will still be Alberta premier and party leader on Monday. For Kenney, this is not the end. But squint a little and you can see it from here.