Jun 30 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — While Stephen Harper is popular in Alberta, with 51 per cent having a favourable view, his popularity collapses elsewhere. When it comes to modern former prime ministers, Jean Chrétien reigns as the most popular among Canadians, beating out Prairie favourite Stephen Harper and Ontario’s beloved Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Jun 28 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — The demands of governing sometimes require stiff, centralized power, Gerald Butts and Ian Brodie told the crowd at Alberta Relaunch. The frequently criticized centralization of power within the Prime Minister’s Office is a necessary part of governing — regardless of who is in power — argued two former prime ministerial advisers, at an event in […]
May 21 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Newswatch — As the ballots were being counted to determine the fate of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, it was clear early on that it was going to be a tight race. Party scrutineers, having surrendered their means of communication to the outside world, were there to oversee the process. Samantha Steinke, a northern Alberta constituency association president, […]
May 14 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Jason Kenney is finished — or not. He’s the only hope the United Conservative Party has at re-election — or their greatest liability. It all depends on who you ask about the former Harper cabinet minister turned Alberta premier.
Apr 16 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is in a fight for his political life. Ballots are now being mailed to the membership of his United Conservative Party, and the party faithful will have the chance to determine if Kenney stays on as leader of the party that he forged in 2017 out of the remnants of the […]
Mar 15 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — However, the challenge for Canada would be in increasing production — it could take years, not weeks or months — and figuring out how to ship it across the border. More than a year after President Joe Biden killed the Keystone XL project, support for the pipeline has surged in the U.S. in the wake […]
Jan 7 2022 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — ‘Two versions of the bobblehead are available with one sporting a bearded Trudeau and the other sporting a clean-shaven Trudeau.’ Eventually, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will get an official portrait. Maybe, should his leadership be so exalted, he’ll get a statue on Parliament Hill, or have an airport named after him.
Dec 30 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — In January 2001, an open letter appeared on the front page of the National Post. It was addressed to Ralph Klein, and urged the then-Alberta premier, just months after Jean Chrétien won his third federal Liberal majority, to “build firewalls around Alberta,” to protect against “an increasingly hostile government in Ottawa.”
Dec 17 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Alberta’s United Conservative Party caucus has been forbidden from travelling abroad this holiday season. The directive comes just one week after provincial legislators were told international travel would be fine, and implores them to show leadership and stay within Canada.
Dec 17 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the provincial government might consider returning to a flat tax system, which would see every Albertan, regardless of income, paying the same rate of provincial tax. In response to a question about revenues during a meeting Wednesday with the National Post’s editorial board, Kenney, who was joined by Finance Minister […]
Dec 15 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — As the COVID-19 pandemic crawls towards the two-year mark Canadians have reached the “outer limits” of what further public-health restrictions they’re willing to accept, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney told the National Post on Wednesday.
Nov 10 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — For the first time in several decades Alberta received more money from the federal government than it sent to Ottawa, according to a new analysis — a nearly unprecedented shift due to a major economic contraction in Canada and astronomical levels of pandemic spending by Ottawa.
Oct 21 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — The inquiry launched by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government into the scale of foreign funds aimed at damaging the province’s oil and gas industry has issued its long-awaited report, finding that foreign donors provided nearly $1.3 billion in funds for Canadian environmental campaigns between 2003 and 2019.
Sep 21 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — The People’s Party of Canada, which grew in popularity over the campaign, riding a wave of protests against vaccine and lockdown policies, picked up tens of thousands of votes nationally in Monday’s federal election.
Sep 13 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Cross-country protests rejecting vaccine passports and COVID-19 public health measures are planned for Monday, a series of demonstrations by a group that features among its organizers two Ontario nurses who travelled to Washington on the day of the infamous Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol building.