Contents
Introduction: Jason Kenney and the Perfect Storm
1 Two Combative Leaders, Two Disparate Parties, and One Bitter Campaign: The 2019 Alberta Election
2 The Alberta 2019 Election Online: A Turn to Two Party Electoral Dominance?
3 Standard Error: The Polls in the 2019 Alberta Election and Beyond
III. Inside the United Conservative Party
4 Divisions among Alberta’s “Conservatives”
6 Policing and Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government
7 Playing the Populist Victim: Women, Gender, Representation, and the United Conservative Party
8 Kenney’s Ride: Albertan Neo-Liberal Myths and the Symbology of a Blue Dodge Ram
9 Alberta’s Climate Policy: Public Kenney versus Private Kenney
10 Jason Kenney, Energy, and Pipelines in the 2019 Alberta Election: A Study in Hubris
11 Just Our Facts: The Energy War Room’s Adventures in Branded Content
12 The Long Slide towards Fiscal Reckoning: Managing Alberta’s Finances in an Age of Decline
13 Always More Than It Seems: Rural Alberta and the Politics of Decline
14 Cultural Industries under the United Conservative Party
VI. Health Care, Education, and Public Sector Policies
15 Bitter Battles: The United Conservative Party’s War on Health Care Workers
16 Education and the United Conservative Party of Alberta
17 Riding the Roller Coaster: Post-Secondary Education in Alberta under Kenney
18 Labour in the Time of COVID
VII. COVID in Alberta and Ontario
19 Comparing the Kenney and Ford Governments
20 “With Comorbidities”: The Politics of COVID-19 and the Kenney Government