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    Kenney speaks in response to the results of the United Conservative Party leadership review in Calgary, May 18, 2022. (Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press)

    Jason Kenney exits stage right

    Politics Insider for May 19: Kenney’s potential successors prepare to replace him; Patrick Brown complains over racist email; Ed Fast out as finance critic over Pierre Poilievre criticism
    Kenney points to people in the chamber, Edmonton, Feb. 22, 2022. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

    Jason Kenney warns of ’kooky people’ threatening his government

    Politics Insider for Mar. 25: Freedom Convoy organizers face more charges; Conservatives table motion that would end all COVID restrictions; Jagmeet Singh says he will hold Liberals to dental care promise
    Legault chairs a premiers news conference as premiers John Horgan, Kenney, and Scott Moe appear onscreen, on March 4, 2021 in Montreal (Ryan Remiorz/CP)

    338Canada: A tale of two premiers

    Philippe J. Fournier: A few years ago, Francois Legault and Jason Kenney were making history. Today, only one of them is sure to survive their next election.
    A person waits in line during a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Kingston, Ontario on Dec. 15, 2021. (Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)

    Ontario will make booster shots easier to get

    Politics Insider for Dec. 16, 2021: Feds scrambling over Omicron; Booster shots in Ontario; and no more gathering restrictions for unvaxxed Albertans
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    New COVID-19 travel rules are stranding Canadians in Africa

    Politics Insider for Dec. 6, 2021: Confusion in southern Africa; O’Toole’s last shot; and 100 years of women in the House
    Alberta Premier Jason Kenney updates media on measures taken to help with COVID-19, in Edmonton on Friday, March 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

    What will happen when Jason Kenney’s dissidents spend a weekend together

    Not everyone in the Alberta premier’s party wants him gone, but believing he’ll hang onto the leadership and win another election requires some magical thinking
    Erin O’Toole in Ottawa on Nov. 9, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

    Erin O’Toole and Jason Kenney are both facing internal challenges to their leadership

    Politics Insider for Nov. 16, 2021: Opponents move against Kenney and O’Toole; Alberta has a child-care plan; and Harper launches an investment fund
    (Illustration by Ben Shmulevitch)

    Jason Kenney is sinking. How it all went wrong for him.

    The premier fumbled Alberta’s pandemic response so badly that his job is now in jeopardy
    Alberta Legislative Building in Edmonton, Alta. (Photo by John Elk III via Getty Images)

    Kenney’s office faces a serious lawsuit containing sexual harassment allegations

    Politics Insider for Oct. 28, 2021: Jason Kenney’s office faces a serious lawsuit; a possible Papal apology; and a COVID miss
    Kenney speaks at the Premier's annual Stampede breakfast in Calgary on July 12, 2021 (Jeff McIntosh/CP)

    Will Jason Kenney sink the UCP experiment?: 338Canada

    Philippe J. Fournier: The latest projection shows that if an election was held now, the UCP would be nearly swept out of urban Alberta and even lose some of its rural base
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