May 14 2021 — Calgary Herald — A veteran UCP backbencher’s call for Premier Jason Kenney’s resignation could have significant reverberations in Calgary and southern Alberta, local political scientists say. In a letter posted to his Facebook page at 2 a.m. Thursday, MLA Todd Loewen called on Kenney to step down, saying Albertans, including himself, have lost faith in the premier’s leadership.
May 13 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — MLA Todd Loewen’s demand that Premier Jason Kenney resign was serious business. But it quickly descended into farce, as the full UCP caucus agonized toward his inevitable expulsion at 7:40 p.m. Thursday. The virtual caucus meeting where UCP MLAs voted on Loewen’s fate was at times chaotic, and possibly the leakiest private meeting in Alberta […]
May 12 2021 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — A part of me wants Enbridge’sLine 5 pipeline to shut down, if only for a few months, not because I wish our country ill, but because I want what’s best for it. What’s best for Canada is energy self-sufficiency and security, and that’s simply impossible without pipelines. Shutting down this vital energy lifeline, even temporarily, […]
May 11 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — More evidence that Alberta’s political culture is descending into bitter craziness now emerges almost daily. The justice minister of this province, Kaycee Madu, says the NDP, the media and Ottawa want a health-care crisis with people gasping and dying in ICUs, to further political ends.
May 9 2021 — Aritha van Herk — Calgary Herald — A western farmer comes home one afternoon to discover that a hailstorm has destroyed his crop, his farmhouse has been struck by lightning, his wife has run off with his brand-new truck, and his dog has had a close encounter with a skunk. He shakes his fist at the sky, and shouts, “God damn the […]
May 4 2021 — Calgary Herald — Premier Jason Kenney announced sweeping new COVID-19 restrictions Tuesday evening, including a transition to restaurant takeout service only, closure of personal care businesses and a shift to online learning for all students. With more than 23,000 active cases in Alberta and the highest case rate per population in the country, Kenney said the province has […]
Apr 22 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — An explosive letter demanding Premier Jason Kenney’s immediate resignation is circulating among UCP riding boards. It has so far gained about 90 signatures of board members and presidents from a variety of ridings, party sources say.
Apr 9 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — Publicly, Premier Jason Kenney let his 17 dissident UCP caucus members off the hook Thursday. In private, it was a different story. During a three-hour caucus meeting, Kenney is said by sources to have threatened to call a snap election.
Apr 8 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — It’s out in the open — a full-blown revolt against Premier Jason Kenney’s COVID-19 policy by 16 UCP caucus members. This is very serious business for Kenney; a crack that could become a chasm at the heart of government, just as the virus itself is again spreading quickly.
Apr 7 2021 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — When Naheed Nenshi became Calgary’s 36th mayor on Oct. 18, 2010, he very quickly became an international phenomenon. Even though his ethnicity and religion never became an issue in Calgary during the campaign to replace outgoing mayor Dave Bronconnier, Nenshi catapulted into fame as a political star as the first Muslim mayor of a major […]
Mar 26 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — It’s a long and learned drop from the lofty debates of the Supreme Court to the average Albertan’s wallet. But here’s the practical thing: Thursday’s ruling that climate change is a matter of “national concern,” and thus gives wide powers on carbon pricing to Ottawa, is not going to cost you much, if anything.
Feb 26 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — There must be days when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney wonders how he ended up running the wrong government. The United Conservative Party in its own dreams would spend small, borrow no money, and allow people to go about their lives with little thought to an overarching government.
Feb 6 2021 — Danielle Smith — Calgary Herald — Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes dropped a bomb earlier this week when he said he wants to see a referendum on separation timed with the provincial election in 2023. However you would vote on the question of Alberta independence, it’s a smart strategy to raise it now.
Jan 28 2021 — Licia Corbella — Calgary Herald — The CEO of a Calgary-based biotechnology firm says if he had been able to procure $35 million from the federal government instead of just $4.7 million, it would be in Stage 3 clinical trials right now with a Canadian vaccine similar to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Brad Sorenson, the founder and CEO of […]
Jan 21 2021 — Don Braid — Calgary Herald — The inauguration of President Joe Biden was wonderful; the banishing of Donald Trump even better. But Biden’s ascension also comes with a severe blow to Alberta’s economy — the presidential cancellation of Keystone XL’s permit.