Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's wounds may be self-inflicted but are they politically fatal?
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Can Jason Kenney survive politically ?
That's the question facing Alberta's premier as he refuses to take responsibility for allowing a disastrous fourth wave of the pandemic to overtake the province's health-care system.
For the past 18 months, Kenney has repeatedly boxed himself into a corner over his uneven response to COVID-19 – but this time the box is looking an awful lot like a coffin.
And Kenney seemed to be using a hammer to drive nails into the casket Wednesday night with his confusing and contradictory news conference where he invoked a province-wide public health emergency and introduced, among other things, a bewilderingly entitled "restriction exemption program" that is in fact Kenney's version of a vaccine passport.
"It is now clear that we were wrong and for that I apologize," said Kenney of his ill-fated rush to lift most restrictions on July 1 when he promised Albertans the "best summer ever."
An apology from the normally defiant Kenney? That was a refreshing change.
Wild boars have been declared "a pest in all circumstances" by the Alberta government effective Dec. 1, meaning new restrictions have been placed on keeping them in captivity and hunting them in the wild.
Health Canada has issued a public advisory after a convenience store in Toronto sold fake erectile dysfunction drugs to customers.
More details are now available about how a farmer's field in south London will be transformed to shelter up to 60 homeless people starting in January.
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after an officer involved shooting at Danforth Go station early Saturday morning, said Toronto police.
Thousands are without power across Newfoundland this morning due to severe weather conditions, including high winds and cold temperatures.
The federal government says roughly half of the workers expected to be laid off at Algoma Steel will be eligible to be rehired by the end of next year.
Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are taking shape for what to do with some of the wreckage from the famed ship involved in the Halifax Explosion.
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after an officer involved shooting at Danforth Go station early Saturday morning, said Toronto police.
Montreal officials will hold a ceremony to mark the 36th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre today.
The City of Regina's proposal to build a roadway through the McKell Wascana Conservation Park should be discarded, local conservationists say.
A holiday event that began in 2020 during the pandemic with three floats on pickup trucks has now become one of Kelowna’s big winter events, drawing thousands to the city’s downtown core.
WARNING: This story details allegations of child abuse.
It’s been hard to keep track of how many legal challenges and active court proceedings the United Conservative government has tried to quash or pre-emptively block in the last six weeks, but let’s try to tally: