United Conservative Party critics renew fight for a more robust review of Kenney’s leadership A group of United Conservative Party members are renewing their push for a provincewide vote on Premier Jason Kenney’s party leadership. Their cause might be doomed but they are not going down without a fight.

Bill 81, The Election Statutes Amendment Act, has a title designed to put the average Albertan to sleep. But this is the piece of legislation that sparked a furious debate in the legislative assembly and kept MLAs up sleepless until 3 a.m. Wednesday before a majority of government members rammed the bill through. The debate was long, raucous and at…

When a Speaker isn’t neutral. Lost in the controversies and crises involving COVID this year was a scandal involving the Speaker of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly, Nathan Cooper. I say scandal, but it could have escalated into a full-blown crisis had Cooper not backed down and apologized for trampling on a cornerstone of our system of parliamentary democracy: the tradition of a…

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.