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  1. Half Title
  2. Series
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. I. Setting the Scene
  9. Introduction: Jason Kenney and the Perfect Storm
  10. II. The 2019 Election
  11. 1 - Two Combative Leaders, Two Disparate Parties, and One Bitter Campaign: The 2019 Alberta Election
  12. 2 - The Alberta 2019 Election Online: A Turn to Two Party Electoral Dominance?
  13. 3 - Standard Error: The Polls in the 2019 Alberta Election and Beyond
  14. III. Inside the United Conservative Party
  15. 4 - Divisions among Alberta’s “Conservatives”
  16. 5 - Albertans and the Fair Deal
  17. 6 - Policing and Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government
  18. 7 - Playing the Populist Victim: Women, Gender, Representation, and the United Conservative Party
  19. 8 - Kenney’s Ride: Albertan Neo-Liberal Myths and the Symbology of a Blue Dodge Ram
  20. IV. Oil and Gas Policies
  21. 9 - Alberta’s Climate Policy: Public Kenney versus Private Kenney
  22. 10 - Jason Kenney, Energy, and Pipelines in the 2019 Alberta Election: A Study in Hubris
  23. 11 - Just Our Facts: The Energy War Room’s Adventures in Branded Content
  24. V. Alberta’s Fiscal Situation
  25. 12 - The Long Slide towards Fiscal Reckoning: Managing Alberta’s Finances in an Age of Decline
  26. 13 - Always More Than It Seems: Rural Alberta and the Politics of Decline
  27. 14 - Cultural Industries Under the United Conservative Party
  28. VI. Health Care, Education, and Public Sector Policies
  29. 15 - Bitter Battles: The United Conservative Party’s War on Health Care Workers
  30. 16 - Education and the United Conservative Party of Alberta
  31. 17 - Riding the Roller Coaster: Post-Secondary Education in Alberta under Kenney
  32. 18 - Labour in the Time of COVID
  33. VII. COVID in Alberta and Ontario
  34. 19 - Comparing the Kenney and Ford Governments
  35. 20 - “With Comorbidities”: The Politics of COVID-19 and the Kenney Government
  36. VIII. Conclusion
  37. 21 - Conclusion: States of Uncertainty
  38. Contributors
  39. Index

© 2023 Duane Bratt, Richard Sutherland, and David Taras

University of Calgary Press

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Calgary, Alberta

Canada T2N 1N4

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All rights reserved.

This book is available in an Open Access digital format published under a CC-BY-NCND 4.0 Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Blue storm : the rise and fall of Jason Kenney / edited by Duane Bratt, Richard Sutherland, and David Taras.

Names: Bratt, Duane, 1967- editor. | Sutherland, Richard, 1964- editor. | Taras, David, 1950- editor.

Series: Arts in action ; no. 4.

Description: Series statement: Arts in action, 2371-6134 ; no. 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220445184 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220445273 | ISBN 9781773854168 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773854175 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781773854205 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781773854199 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773854182 (Open Access PDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Kenney, Jason, 1968- | LCSH: Premiers (Canada)—Alberta—Biography. | LCSH: United Conservative Party. | LCSH: Alberta. Legislative Assembly—Elections, 2019. | LCSH: Alberta—Economic conditions—21st century. | CSH: Alberta—Politics and government—2015-

Classification: LCC FC3676.1.K46 B58 2023 | DDC 971.23/04092—dc23

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

This book has been published with the help of a grant from Mount Royal University Library, through the Mount Royal University Library Open Access Fund.

Funder Logos: Alberta government, Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Mount Royal University.

Cover image: Colourbox 6153926 and 8364348

Copyediting by Tania Therien

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

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