Alberta

SATIRE: Reimagining the Conservative leader’s recent press conference—and the dogged effort to get him to utter two simple words

Case counts have soared, surgeries are getting postponed and the COVID-19 death toll is mounting. Why did the premier ignore the majority of his province’s voters?

Canada’s wildfire lookouts live under constant threat that they will be replaced by technology. But they’ve never been more essential.

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

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

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.

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.

He returned from Ottawa with a suitcase full of ideas about who Albertans are and what they want from their premier. How a seemingly perfect political match went wrong.

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.

’These restrictions are not about our preferences,’ says the Alberta premier. ’They’re not about politics. They are about protecting both people’s lives, and the livelihoods that they depend on.’