The Trans Mountain pipeline and the end of the ‘veto’ fallacy
Today’s appeal court ruling rejects the notion of First Nations having a veto over oil projects. But it’s not the end of the legal saga.
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Jason Markusoff
Jason Markusoff writes about Alberta, from the stubbornly flat parts to the magnificently bumpy bits. He has lived in Edmonton and (currently) Calgary, and spent 12 years reporting for the cities’ largest newspapers.
Can TVO’s ’Political Blind Date’ help soften partisanship in Canada?
The TV show gives politicians the rare chance to talk outside of a hostile question period and get to the bottom of the seldom-answered question: Why the (bleep) does that person think that way?
The future of ‘Saskberta’
Two Prairie provinces will make common cause in 2020 in an alliance born of anger and economic pain
What room can Andrew Scheer win, if not this one?
Jason Markusoff: Alberta Conservatives gathered to listen to their federal party leader. They were not very impressed.
Why Trudeau’s cabinet is still all blurry on the western front
The PM wisely avoided a stunt move like appointing an unelected Albertan. And he spoke of the energy industry with some overdue respect.
Jason Kenney’s strongman manoeuvre
Jason Markusoff: A question rang out across Alberta. How the (expletive) does he think he can get away with this?
Encana doesn’t want to be Canadian anymore, and Trudeau shrugs
The Liberals just failed their first key test after getting shut out of Alberta in the election
Lethbridge says ’oki’ to everyone who visits
In mid-September, city council declared the Blackfoot word oki—which means hello—the official greeting of Alberta’s third-largest city
Jason Kenney slashed the budget—hey, Trudeau made him do it!
Will post-election anger distract Albertans from their provincial government’s deep spending cuts?
Andrew Scheer must find a way to the East
Time for Conservatives to reckon with the message they were selling, which worked great in two provinces, but inadequately in the other eight