Danielle Smith is dancing to the separatists’ tune
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/Flickr. Alberta’s upcoming referendum says less about the strength of separatist sentiment in the province than it do...
Eric Strikwerda
Alberta separatists think their referendum pitch is about democracy. It’s not
Alberta separatists have no authority to unilaterally reopen or disregard treaty relationships that predate the province itself, writes Eric Strikwerda. Photo courtesy Alberta Prosperity Project/X. ...
Danielle Smith is stumbling and bumbling and terrifying right out of the gate
UCP leader and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/Flickr. It used to be that conservatives campaigned to the right and governed to the centre. This tried…
Jason Kenney, through a glass darkly
Jason Kenney has long maintained an address in fantasyland. Back in 2016 he somehow came to the now clearly erroneous conclusion that only he could fashion a robust and longstanding…
Jason Kenney making political hay out of tragedy? Why not?
Jason Kenney holds a press conference following his meeting with former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach and the Consul General of Ukraine in Edmonton, February 23, 2022. Image courtesy Jason Kenney/Twitter.…
In Alberta, COVID restrictions are out and even the truckers are unhappy
Members of the ‘Foothills Freedom Rally’ travel near Alberta’s Highway No. 2 to protest the provincial government’s vaccine mandate. Photo courtesy OkotoksOnline.com. Did you hear that sound? That slight puff…
We need to talk about the Conservatives
Conservatism has been shut out of government amid a hard rightward shift, political infighting and the pursuit of socially and culturally divisive wedge issues, writes Eric Strikwerda. Photo from Wikimedia…
Jason Kenney: Wrong again
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Photo by Codie McLachlan. It was the most Jason Kenney thing to do. Just before Christmas the embattled Alberta premier finally admitted, in referring to his…
The tail wags the dog in Alberta. Can we expect the same if Erin O’Toole forms government in Ottawa?
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney appear at the United Conservative Party’s online convention from Nobelford, Alberta in October 2020. Screenshot from YouTube. Erin O’Toole has rightly…
Hey Conservatives, you’ve got an Alberta problem
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Photo from Twitter. Federal Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is in a tight spot. On one hand, national polls have his party…
Spare a thought for Jason Kenney. He’s lost a lot
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney during a news conference in Ottawa on May 2, 2019. Photo by Andrew Meade. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney can’t seem to catch a break. He just…
Welcome to the UCP’s Alberta, where everything is going sideways in a hurry
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Photo courtesy the Government of Alberta/Flickr. It was weird. Here was Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in June, explaining to incredulous reporters that he has never supported…
Is Alberta’s UCP government trying to open a new front in the old Cold War?
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney provides an update on the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Alberta, February 19, 2021. Photo courtesy Alberta Newsroom/Flickr. Last month, a “deeply concerned” Alberta Advanced Education…
Jason Kenney’s epic fail
The spectacular failures of Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party government in Alberta are almost too frequent to enumerate. Image by Canadian Dimension. Many on the social medias have given Alberta…
Alberta’s draft curriculum will make the province a laughingstock
The United Conservative Party’s new draft K-6 curriculum is plagued with basic errors and out-of-sequence historical narratives. Photo courtesy Jason Kenney/Twitter. Leaving aside the stomach-clutching hilarity of some parts of…
Sir John A. comes tumbling down—Alberta’s Jason Kenney wants to raise him back up again
The statue of John A. Macdonald (not pictured) was toppled during an anti-racism demonstration in Montreal on August 29. Photo by Colin Knowles/Flickr. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is outraged. “A…