Future Alberta Senator Duncan Kinney (@duncankinney), whom you also may know from fellow Harbinger pod The Progress Report, joins us to talk about the hellish nightmare of Alberta's COVID response.
ICUs are overflowing, people are dying, but the Edmonton Journal's David Staples — always with his finger on the pulse — wants to know what this means for Premier Jason Kenney's political fortunes.
Staples has devised nine rules for political life, all of which he says Kenney has violated.
To hear part two, where we review a similarly-themed column in the Calgary Herald, sign up for our Patreon to have it in your feed next week.
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Melissa Mbarki: Out of the residential schools, into the prison and foster care systems
Clayton Thomas Muller: This National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Canada should commit to a Just Transition for Indigenous Peoples
Brian Fauteux: Music in Range
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