There is something oddly fitting, even symbolic, about the Alberta government offering exotic vacation packages as part of its vaccine lottery. After all, almost 10 per cent of United Conservative caucus members jetted off to hotspots during the Christmas break.

We knew we were about to get run over by a bus. We could see it coming. We even knew its number. But that didn’t make it any easier or less painful when it finally hit. Thus, when the Alberta government formally announced Wednesday it was “terminating its involvement” in the defunct Keystone XL pipeline project, Albertan taxpayers had every…

It should have been a nothing burger, but Alberta Premier Jason Kenney turned it into a political smorgasbord. And he was the main course. Opposition MLAs, as well as members of Kenney’s own caucus, have spent the past week taking giant bites out of Kenney’s credibility because of a COVID-violating dinner on June 1. Not that Kenney’s emaciated credibility would…

On February 23, 2021, something amazing happened—almost a miracle, as far as I’m concerned. I got to ask Premier Jason Kenney a question during a news conference (about the upcoming legislative sitting). Before that, the last time I’d been called on to ask a question was December 18, 2020—67 days previously.

For those disheartened by the relentlessly combative state of politics in Alberta, I give you last Wednesday night in the legislative assembly. In just 30 minutes, members of the UCP and NDP joined forces to pass a law giving all workers in the province three hours of paid leave when getting a COVID-19 vaccine. “I am glad that the legislature…