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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Image credit: David J. Climenhaga
Is there enough trouble to unseat Alberta's newly unpopular premier?
David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney may not be the most likeable premier in Alberta history, but he is more ruthless than anyone we have seen in the premier's office for a long time. Ruthless enough to put down a rebellion.
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Economist Armine Yalnizyan. Image credit: David J. Climenhaga
Women's employment rates in Alberta return to levels not seen since the '80s
David J. Climenhaga | Unlike the attention devoted to young men's unemployment, issues surrounding women's employment rates attract hostility from the UCP and inattention from media.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney at his news conference in Calgary yesterday. Image credit: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr -- Photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta
No fiscal reckoning for health care -- just yet, anyway -- Alberta premier says
David J. Climenhaga | Cabinet ministers at Premier Jason Kenney's news conference about health-care spending yesterday behaved themselves. Some government MLAs, not so much.
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University of Alberta campus. Image credit: Janusz Sliwinski/Flickr
University of Alberta faces more than half of budget's post-secondary cuts
David J. Climenhaga | In the 2021 Alberta budget, the University of Alberta's grant has been slashed by 11 per cent, or $60.1 million. Also: another tiki-torch march; former MLA Janice Sarich remembered.
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Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews reads his budget speech in a COVID-19-safe Legislature as Premier Jason Kenney looks on. Image credit: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr - Photograph by EPIC Photography/Legislative Assembly Office
Alberta budget delivers sweeter language, same old 'fiscal reckoning,' and no path to balance
David Climenhaga | If you want to know how quickly front-line pandemic heroes turn into back-of-the-line zeroes in Jason Kenney's Alberta, the answers are in Thursday's provincial budget.
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Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews. Image credit: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr
Don't expect UCP to follow Business Council's progressive advice in Alberta's budget
David J. Climenhaga | The big business guys never quite come out and advise Jason Kenney and the UCP to run Alberta like Rachel Notley's NDP did. But that's what they're doing.
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Calgary street preacher Artur Pawlowski addresses supporters at Saturday's tiki-torch march in Edmonton. Image: Artur Pawlowski/Facebook
Extremist rally at Alberta legislature met with silence from UCP
David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney's commentary about Saturday's tiki-torch protest in Edmonton wasn't quite a full-throated Trumpian defence of "very fine people," but surely boils down to the same thing.
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Inquiry Commissioner Steve Allan. Image credit: Government of Alberta
Judge hopes to rule on Ecojustice challenge to Alberta inquiry by May 31
David J. Climenhaga | Whether or not Ecojustice is winning in court is impossible to say. But the group is certainly well ahead in the Canadian court of public opinion.
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An Alberta Health Services ambulance. Image credit: Mitchell Smith/Flickr
Is Alberta's EMS dispatch consolidation plan a prelude to ambulance privatization?
David J. Climenhaga | The only way the UCP's stubborn persistence with this policy really makes sense is if it sets the stage for something else, to wit, privatization of the provincial ambulance service.
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You just can’t make this stuff up. Image: United Conservative Party/Twitter
The Annals of Alberta poetry: United Conservative Party sends out a Kenney Valentine
David J. Climenhaga | Roses are red, violets are blue, stay for the ratio, what else can you do?
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Alberta Health Services ambulance. Image credit: Mitchell Smith/Flickr
Fort McMurray mayor dares Kenney to fire him in fight over deteriorating ambulance service
David J. Climenhaga | There are circumstances when acts of defiance are absolutely necessary, said Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott in Fort McMurray. "I challenge the provincial government to remove me."
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in the cake section during yesterday's news conference. Image credit: Video screenshot/Government of Alberta
Kenney chooses cake department to announce pandemic 'bonus' for front-line workers
David J. Climenhaga | It's pretty clear that the Alberta premier's decision to finally hand out the predominantly federal cash was a desperate attempt to change the channel on his recent string of political disasters.