It’s not as if they embraced and agreed to form a coalition government.  But on Wednesday afternoon, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Opposition leader Rachel Notley did give each other a verbal hug. It wasn’t the end of political hostilities but it was reassuring to see the two combatants — who have not downed weapons during the COVID-19 pandemic — give each…

On Tuesday afternoon, Premier Jason Kenney declared the COVID-19 pandemic a public health emergency that “will test all of us.” Will it ever. It will test our emergency workers, our doctors, our nurses, our first responders. It will test the strength of our communities and the bonds of our society.  For parents trapped in self-isolation with children, it will be…

“The province is facing a fiscal crisis because of a sudden drop in the price of oil. Isn’t this territory as familiar as the back of our hands? Oh, the causes might be new — the COVID-19 virus playing havoc with stock markets as a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia wreaks chaos with oil prices — but the territory…

DEAR WAR ROOM: I realize you’ve called yourself the “Canadian Energy Centre” since opening shop last fall, but we all know you’re the War Room as promised in the United Conservative Party’s platform during the 2019 provincial election campaign. And you have declared war on what Premier Jason Kenney has called the “campaign of lies, of defamation and disinformation based…

We should have seen it coming. The first inkling that controversy would dog Jason Kenney’s victory in the 2017 United Conservative Party leadership race came not during that contest but a year earlier, when Kenney ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives.