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Reid Carruthers’ curling team and vice-skip Jason Gunnlaugson have split up. The Manitoba team called the separation “a mutual parting of the ways” and said a search was underway for a replacement in a Twitter post Monday. Carruthers, Gunnalugson and front-end players Derek Samagalski and Connor Njegovan formed a team …
Read More »Alberta mayor felt then-premier Jason Kenney was ignoring ‘domestic terrorists,’ texts show
The mayor of a southern Alberta village where a protest against COVID-19 restrictions closed traffic lanes to the United States last winter believed then-premier Jason Kenney was ignoring the severity of the situation, according to texts obtained by the Emergencies Act inquiry. A text chain between Coutts Mayor Jim Willett and Alberta’s transportation minister …
Read More »Why Jason Kenney’s cabinet shuffle is a late-day news dump
Journalists, that skeptical lot, like to refer to government announcements sent out past 4 p.m. as “taking out the trash.” That late-afternoon, almost-evening period is when a government or other institution likes to haul out the news releases or announcements that don’t produce the rosiest headlines — the stuff officials …
Read More »Jason Kenney makes a timely pitch for Alberta oil to U.S. senators. But will it work?
With skyrocketing gas prices, Washington scrambling for more oil and the U.S. midterm elections around the corner, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s appearance before a U.S. Senate committee to pitch his province’s oil couldn’t come at a better time. The premier, who has championed his province as a trustworthy source of energy to the U.S., …
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