As Coutts anti-mandate blockade continues, Alberta government plans to drop vaccine passports

As Coutts anti-mandate blockade continues, Alberta government plans to drop vaccine passports Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Or in this case, sow the conflict, reap the cross-border blockade. On January 22, Premier Jason Kenney declared in a tweet that “Ottawa’s trucker vaccine mandate has to go.” Days later, a truck convoy of protesters angry at the vaccine mandate began…

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Crisis? What crisis? Alberta premier massages the message with his fast and loose use of facts, figures

After months of feeding carrots to vaccine-hesitant Albertans, Premier Jason Kenney is breaking out the stick. Sort of.

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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s wounds may be self-inflicted but are they politically fatal?

Can Jason Kenney survive politically ? That’s the question facing Alberta’s premier as he refuses to take responsibility for allowing a disastrous fourth wave of the pandemic to overtake the province’s health-care system.

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Why Kenney’s government handed Albertans a nothing burger amid a disastrous 4th COVID wave

It was a nothing burger — with extra word salad on the side. Thursday’s news conference with Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw should have been a meaty update on how the provincial government is battling the devastating fourth wave of COVID-19. Instead, Shandro and Hinshaw continued to starve Albertans of information, of honesty…

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Kenney’s vacation is over, but his political troubles aren’t

OK, now what? Now that Premier Jason Kenney has poked his head over the ramparts via a Facebook live appearance Wednesday night, what will he do about the worrying fourth wave of COVID?

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