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“#The lonely life of a wildfire lookout in northern Alberta” Champagne ascends the 30-m ladder to his lookout perch (Photograph by Amber Bracken) “Thunder showers are expected again,” a monotone voice reports over the radio, “and crossover conditions persist.” Aaron Champagne, 38, scowls from his perch 30 m up in the smoke-clogged sky, in the shadow of…
“#The splintering of the right in Alberta: 338Canada” Phillippe J. Fournier: The latest Alberta election projection puts the NDP in majority territory, with mounting evidence the UCP’s 2019 path to victory won’t work in 2023 When Mainstreet Research released its latest Alberta poll in May showing the Wildrose Independence Party in third place with 17…
“#How Alberta’s COVID-19 crisis became ‘absolutely frightening’” The province has the highest rate of active cases in Canada and could see as many as 4,000 new cases a day by May 22 On Saturday, hundreds of fans packed bleachers just outside Bowden, Alta., for the “No More Lockdown Rally Rodeo.” Few wore masks and the…
“#The reality of carbon prices sinks in” The provinces that resisted the federal plan will now have to chart a new path. But they already quietly understood what needs to be done. Albertans have lived with a carbon surcharge on gasoline and home heating (along with the corresponding rebates) for 44 of the last 51…
“#338Canada: A major warning sign for Jason Kenney’s UCP” Philippe J. Fournier: New numbers confirm the UCP is bleeding support and the NDP is on the rise. The latest projection shows an election would be too close to call. Since the Wildrose and PC merger back in 2017, the Alberta NDP didn’t lead in any…
“#This is not what Jason Kenney came back to Alberta for” Jason Kenney had a series of ambitions for himself and Alberta when he began, five years ago, on a quest to restore the province. He’d become the Alberta conservative movement’s leader, merge two right-leaning parties into one and topple Rachel Notley’s NDP government, which…
“#Is Ottawa both Jason Kenney’s benefactor and his political straw man?” The Trudeau Liberals sprayed the money hose everywhere in 2020 but lent oil country particular support. Yet, in 2021, Kenney still plans to pursue many of his pre-pandemic provocations and retrenchments against Ottawa. A mid-year fiscal update showed Alberta getting uncomfortably close to levels…
“#Jason Kenney’s coronavirus announcement: ‘These measures are tough, but necessary’ (full transcript)” As daily cases in Alberta hit record highs and the province’s COVID death toll surpassed 400 (it is now 492), Premier Jason Kenney was still resisting calls to institute lockdown measures like those imposed in other provinces. On Tuesday, however, Kenney shifted course,…
“#The COVID warning Jason Kenney should have heeded” “If the rate of COVID-19 spread continues, the consequences to the people of Alberta will be catastrophic,” warned scores of doctors whose specialities include critical care, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and pulmonary medicine. They could have been talking about the crisis currently enveloping the province. But that…
“#The gravity of Alberta’s COVID crisis, in one phone call” Image of the Week: A doctor’s call to tell a family their loved one had died captures the exhaustion, frustration and sorrow washing over the province With COVID-19 having killed hundreds of Albertans, Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil has gotten used to delivering bad news over the…