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The House of Cards: Why Alberta should quit oil after Keystone XL

The Keystone XL pipeline was generally popular among Canadians, and among Albertans in particular. In 2017, one poll showed that the project was supported by 48 per cent of Canadians (including 77 per cent of Albertans) and only opposed by 33 per cent. However, Canadian popular opinion means little for American politics. On Jan. 21, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden signed an executive order, revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, cancelling the entire project. Premier Jason Kenney, whose United Conservative Party government had committed $7.5 billion to the project through investments and loan guarantees, called Biden’s decision a “gut punch.” Recently, his government also funded a dysfunctional inquiry (which missed several deadlines) into political groups expressing hostility to Alberta’s oil industry, which featured flagrant displays of climate change denialism and unproven conspiratorial accusations about a worldwide Marxist plot to damage the Albertan o

The Politics of Party Scandals: COVID-19, Conservative vacationing and larger political patterns

Among the various Canadian provinces, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been particularly unkind to Alberta. The province has 11.6 per cent of Canada’s population, but 16.8 per cent of its confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 17.1 per cent of its active cases. Although every province experienced the second wave of COVID-19 between September and December 2020, Alberta suffered the largest increase in cases in the shortest period of time. By Nov. 20, Alberta was the only province in Canada without a mask mandate. As of Dec. 15, Alberta had the second-highest rate of active cases in Canada, slightly behind Saskatchewan. Presently, Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party (UCP) government’s response is by far the least popular in Canada.

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