Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Liz Szabo discusses how improved ventilation has plenty of additional benefits beyond limiting the spread of COVID – making it the COVID…
Jason Kenney
With Jason Kenney seemingly foundering, Alberta’s No. 2 Jason, Nixon, finds himself in the spotlight
With Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s survival in the ongoing United Conservative Party leadership review vote far from assured, the spotlight was bound to shift onto some of his more obvious…
Jason Kenney tells ‘Alberta at Work’ news conference a spectre is haunting Alberta – the spectre of public auto insurance!
Did Alberta Premier Jason Kenney just win the next Alberta election for the NDP? Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). This is a serious question, people. Responding to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William Haseltine writes about the long-lasting and severe cognitive effects of long COVID, while Danny Altmann discusses the urgency of developing effective treatment…
Enjoy the reflected glow, Premier Kenney, visiting U.S. Senator Joe Manchin likely has a short shelf life remaining
Alberta Conservatives should enjoy basking in the glow cast by Joe Manchin while they can – the visiting U.S. Senator likely has a short shelf life remaining as “the key…
Dr Yiu is fired, Jason Kenney is “Under Review”
Two people were fired this week. Dr Yiu was fired without cause on Apr 4. Jason Kenney is being ‘fired’ in slow motion, his dismissal will be confirmed on May…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney lays out his case to keep his job to small crowd of carefully curated supporters
If he is to survive politically, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney must thread a needle – appeasing enough of his United Conservative Party’s base to keep his job without frightening so…
Don’t change horses in mid-stream! Rebellious UCP members get dire warning on eve of Jason Kenney’s leadership vote
This week, the campaign brain trust for Alberta’s beleaguered premier managed to find 19 old Tory MLAs willing to sign their names to an open letter begging United Conservative Party…
New poll suggests Albertans’ deep disapproval of Premier Jason Kenney’s job performance is hangin’ in there
There are two things you need to remember about that new poll from Think HQ Public Affairs that suggests the number of Alberta voters who still approve of Premier Jason…
After six years of exemplary service as Alberta Health Services CEO, Kenney Government sacks Verna Yiu
Verna Yiu led Alberta Health Services through the darkest hours of the pandemic with grace and a steady hand. The 20-year-plus veteran of public health care administration is the kind…
Poisoning Democracy: Jason Nixon’s Outburst
“Unfortunately, our politicians are not only contaminating the minds of the public but poisoning our democracy at the same time.” Gary Mason, Globe & Mail columnist commenting on the two…
Kenney provides unintended comic relief at the pumps; changes are coming to AlbertaPolitics.ca
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s bungled effort to pump a little gas yesterday to make a point about his government’s gas-tax cut illustrates why it’s always a good idea to warn…
After nearly a year gathering dust on a shelf, Kenney Government proclaims politician recall law and its sister act
After letting it sit un-proclaimed in legislative limbo for nearly a year, the Kenney Government has finally gotten around to taking the necessary steps to bring its politician-recall legislation into…
Controversy over sophomoric meme, admission police interviewed premier, distract from lame Axis of Inflation news conference
The adults definitely don’t seem to be in charge any more over in Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s office. It didn’t take very long after the slap heard ’round the world…
Kenney’s Leadership Review: The Bedlam Continues
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” – The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats It’s been a long time coming, but it will be over eventually, not on Apr…
Pundits pivot to theory UCP orchestrated leak to media of recording of Jason Kenney’s ‘lunatics’ speech to political staffers
Much of the Alberta commentariat pivoted Friday to the theory Premier Jason Kenney himself was behind the leak of a recording of his speech to political staffers in which he…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Wallace-Wells examines the massive global toll of excess deaths from COVID-19 (likely far exceeding even the already-alarming official counts). Nele Brusselaers et…
Desperate times call for desperate measures: Kenney labels the UCP’s rightward fringe ‘lunatics,’ ‘kooky people’
In a secret pep talk to his troops Tuesday, revealed yesterday by the CBC, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he’s only sticking around as leader of the United Conservative Party…
Calling UCP leadership review rule change illegal, unethical, and ‘a travesty,’ Jason Kenney’s rival Brian Jean vows legal response
Alberta’s United Conservative Party hasn’t even held the vote yet in its review of Premier Jason Kenney’s leadership and his chief rival is threatening legal action. Yesterday the party board,…
United Conservative Party factions – Jason Kenney’s Mods and Brian Jean’s Rockers – square off over premier’s future
Are rival gangs of UCP Mods and Rockers* heading for Red Deer spoiling for a fight? If you thought the recent opposing demonstrations by outlaw truckers, most of whom don’t…