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…

Premier Danielle Smith. Get used to it. That appears to be where we’re headed after watching the first official leadership debate Wednesday evening in Alberta’s United Conservative Party race to replace Premier Jason Kenney. There might be seven people on the track but Smith seems to be the only one with a steering wheel — and she’s leading everybody in…

What will Jason Kenney’s outspoken UCP caucus mutineers do should he win the leadership vote? May 18 is supposed to be the day when the fighting over Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s leadership stops. That’s the day we will know whether Kenney has survived the United Conservative Party’s leadership vote. On paper the outcome is simple and binary: either he wins and…

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.”…

Brian Jean’s byelection win sets the stage for showdown with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney The melodrama that is Alberta politics has just become a street brawl. And newly elected MLA Brian Jean is bringing his brass knuckles — along with almost five years’ worth of anger and resentment. For Jean, winning the Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche byelection Tuesday night was…