“The threats to a UCP re-election are coming not from the right, but from the left side of the UCP coalition.” Ken Boessenkool on the path forward in Alberta’s conservative politics.Federal polling numbers prior to the campaign suggested that Erin O’Toole was suffering in Alberta from a problem not of his own making, and that…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government didn’t prepare a fallback plan on implementing a consumer carbon tax because they were hoping to win in the country’s top court.The country’s highest court ruled Thursday morning that the federal government’s carbon tax plan was constitutional after legal challenges from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. Alberta Premier Jason…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is repeating his calls for economic retaliation after the U.S. cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, or at least some compensation for TC Energy and the province for the loss of billions of dollars. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 10, 2019.…