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…

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.

When it comes to investing billions of public dollars in private companies, Alberta politicians like to talk about former premier Peter Lougheed. Nobody likes to talk about former premier Don Getty. This week, when Premier Jason Kenney defended his government spending $1.5 billion of public cash and $6 billion in loan guarantees to prop up the Keystone XL pipeline project,…

It acted like a thief in the night. When the Alberta government announced what is surely the largest mass layoff in provincial history, it didn’t hold a news conference or even have one cabinet minister available to answer questions. Instead, it slid the devastating news under the door — via a brief news communique on a Saturday afternoon. And, in…