Buried amidst the ongoing COVID confusion and controversy this week in Alberta came a bit of unusual news: the UCP government and NDP opposition agreed on something. It wasn’t exactly a Kumbaya moment but the two battling political parties that have turned the legislature’s daily question period into a form of trench warfare finally see eye-to-eye on an issue. They’re…

Kenney’s shrinking support. Jason Kenney is not the man he used to be. At least not popularity-wise. His approval rate has been falling, not sinking like a stone but deflating slowly like a balloon.

When Premier Jason Kenney held his long-awaited news conference on Tuesday to announce new COVID-related restrictions, he did two unusual things. Well, unusual for him. He admitted to making a mistake and he issued an apology. I don’t want to overstate the moment but, well, I’ve never heard Kenney definitively do either of those things in his 23 years as…

Premier Jason Kenney declared a public health emergency on Tuesday, with more COVID-related restrictions, but his underlying message remains the same to Albertans: please take personal responsibility or I’ll be forced to take drastic action. And this time, I really mean it! Kenney continues to play the role of exasperated parent in the driver’s seat telling the mischievous kids in…

He is our own harbinger of doom. When Premier Jason Kenney turns up at one of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s regular pandemic updates nowadays, we know we’re in trouble. On Friday, for the first time in many weeks, Kenney shared the podium with Alberta’s chief medical officer of health to discuss the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the province.