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Jason Kenney is stepping down as leader of the United Conservative Party and premier of Alberta. Only 51.4 percent of the more than 34,000 mail-in ballots cast in the leadership review voted to keep Kenney in charge of the United Conservative Party he helped form, party president Cynthia Moore and Chief Returning Officer Rick Orman announced via livestream Wednesday. Kenney said it's clear the party wants a leadership election. "It's clear that the past two years were deeply divisive for our province, our party and our caucus, but it is my fervent hope that in the months to come we...

Pastor Tracy Fortin and some entrusted congregants testified to screening admission the church's entrance after media reports of the church flaunting COVID rules, and after health officials entered the church without a warrant on two prior occasions. Although COVID restrictions are largely gone, The Church in the Vine as a legal entity and the church's co-lead pastor, Tracy Fortin, are standing trial on charges of obstruction of a public health officer this week in an Edmonton courtroom. Fortin and the church stand accused of preventing a provincial health inspector from barging in to inspect the church as Sunday services were...

The chair of the powerful U.S. Senate committee on energy and natural resources — and a key swing vote in the Senate — will tour an oilsands mine and thermal oilsands facility with Premier Jason Kenney and Energy Minister Sonya Savage. The visit came about after the three politicians spoke by phone last month and discussed energy security and the need for a continental strategy. “He mentioned he’d like to come up and see the oilsands, see how they do things up here, have a tour, understand the processes and understand the potential,” Savage said in an interview Friday.... Industry...

Newsdump Alert: No Confidence Motion Against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan... UN Food Agency Report Reveals Dramatic Rise In Food Prices on Biden's Watch... People are not free in connection with COVID-19 some have been banned by social media either by social media companies or by the government like Brian Tamaki in New Zealand... He's locked down churches with padlocks and even fencing during COVID Premier Jason Kenney, the "Conservative" in Alberta let's do a Jason Kenney Update... My vaccine views are "in the middle" I see these quickly developed products rushed to the public over fears about COVID and...

Say what you will about the far-right fanaticism of many of the leaders of the convoy insurrection, Fluker wrote that “we … find ourselves here today because of decisions made by the executive branch of governments in most provinces that have shown almost no regard for basic democratic practices.” “Slowly but surely over the course of two years, voluntary compliance with the COVID-19 rules was going to end because the rules were (1) too often announced for the first time, and without any advance public notice, at media scrums; (2) made with little or no explanation for where the lines...

Welcome To Your Weekend. Your host working on some media excellence. It's been a year now since Rush Limbaugh passed away and he remains in our hearts in such a big way. The Great El Rushbo once broached the topic of "Restless Leg Syndrome" discussing it in the context of a politically biased media stirring up drama and fear... Does The Pope Smoke Dope When It Comes To The Vaccine? Guys in the dorm at the university used to smoke dope. I never smoked but I inhaled... Newsdump Alert: The Crackdown Continues In Snowy Ottawa.. Time For The "Fakeservative Update"...

Two Canadian provincial leaders and 16 American state governors signed a letter on Wednesday calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American President Joe Biden to end Wuhan coronavirus vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers. The letter – signed by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Idaho Governor Brad Little, Alaska Governor Kay Ivey and others – calls on the Canadian federal government and the U.S. federal government to end the vaccine mandates. “We are writing to request that you immediately reinstate the vaccine and quarantine exemptions available to cross-border truck drivers. We...

...In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Kenney said doing so simply does not fit with a core tenet of conservative political principles, and that no elected leaders should be negotiating with the participants in a convoy that has been blockading Canadian economic interests.

Despite the removal of the province's vaccine passport policy, the truckers gathered at the Coutts, Alberta to Sweetgrass, Montana border crossing are demanding all restrictions be removed Rebel News' Kian Simone is reporting that the Coutts, Alberta border crossing is blockaded again following Premier Jason Kenney's announcement of a three-step reopening plan tonight. Speaking at a press conference Tuesday evening, Premier Kenney outlined how the province would follow a three-step plan to remove public health restrictions, beginning with the Restriction Exemption Program at midnight. Despite the removal of the province's vaccine passport policy, the truckers gathered at the Coutts, Alberta...

"Kenney just said we'll probably need to 'take an annual COVID shot He's saying all this. An annual shot Holy *hit" Ezra Levant Rebel News Twitter Post 754 pm Eastern US Time 2/8/2022 There was hope that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney would send a message of an end to COVID vaccine passports and other restrictions in the province often considered Canada's most Conservative today. But he sent shockwaves through the grassroots of Canadian Conservatism in his province by pushing more COVID shots in the future and laying out future scenarios for bringing the vax passports back when he spoke late...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has announced effective midnight Tuesday, the province’s COVID-19 vaccine passport program will end. At an evening news conference, Kenney said the restriction exemption program has served its purpose, but is no longer needed since Alberta passed peak of Omicron infections about three weeks ago. “The threat of COVID-19 to public health no longer outweighs the hugely damaging impact of health restrictions on our society,” said Kenney, adding his government would only move forward if it does not threaten the capacity of the health-care system. Capacity limits will also be nixed Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. for venues...

We actually campaigned on vaccines and vaccine mandates ... there is ongoing work' to integrate an interprovincial COVID inoculation requirement, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said. OTTAWA, Ontario — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has pushed back against huge protests fighting expanding COVID jab mandates across the country, indicating that it will not only not back down on the restrictive measures, but will implement an additional inoculation requirement for truckers moving between provinces. Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra told CBC’s Rosemary Barton that an interprovincial COVID shot mandate is being considered by the government, citing the party’s election campaign promise...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have confirmed to Breitbart News that no officers have been assaulted by protesters at the Alberta border blockade despite the assertion from the province’s Premier, Jason Kenney, that they had. The blockade – in which truckers protesting various Canadian coronavirus mandates by blocking the highway used as an international border crossing between Coutts, Alberta, and Sweet Grass, Montana – is part of what has become known as the “Freedom Convoy,” which also has conducted large demonstrations in Ottawa, the nation’s capital. At a press conference Tuesday, Kenney called for “calm” and said that he had...

This afternoon farmers in the area of Coutts, Alberta broke through the Royal Canadian Mounted Police barricade set up to block food and supplies from getting to truckers mounting a blockade at the nearby US border crossing into Montana. Alberta's Premier Jason Kenney of the United Conservative Party described the incident this way: "I've received reports in the last hour of people aligned with the protesters assaulting RCMP officers including one instance trying to ram members of the RCMP leading to a collision with a civilian vehicle" Kenney is urging anyone sympathetic with the trucker's blockade protesting COVID vaccine mandates...

COUTTS, Alta-Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says a truck convoy that's blockaded a highway at a busy U.S. border crossing as part of a protest against vaccine mandates violates the province's Traffic Safety Act and must end immediately. The Canada Border Services Agency said the U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta., has remained open despite the blockade on Highway 4, but RCMP says only foot traffic is able to get through. "As I said last week. Canadians have a democratic right to engage in lawful protests. I urge those involved in this truck convoy protest to do so as safely as...

CALGARY-The government of Alberta has joined other provinces across Canada in announcing a proof of vaccination program as COVID-19 cases continue to soar to well over a thousand a day. Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Alta. Premier Jason Kenney said due to the escalating COVID-19 situation, which he described as a "crisis of the unvaccinated," the province would enter into a proof of vaccination program. "It has now become clear that we need to go further," he said... In addition to the introduction of vaccine passports, Health Minister Tyler Shandro detailed a number of health restrictions that would be...

The latest political development in Sweden that makes a new election more likely, the Kremlin comments on yesterday's confrontation between a British destroyer and Russia's military and why the Dutch Prime Minister wants to bring Hungary "to its knees" but first... Half of the 891 COVID-19 cases in Israel in the last month involve: "fully vaccinated people"... Effective Sunday Israel reinstating its indoor mask order. The recent uptick in COVID-19 cases many of them identified as "Delta Variant" cited... French Premier Jean Castex visiting the Department of Landes in southwestern France where COVID-19 cases are said to be surging with...

Canadian pastor Tim Stephens arrested again by police in Calgary, Alberta. He's staying in jail rather than comply with bail conditions that demand he not hold church services.... Peoples Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was arrested in the province of Manitoba for participating in a protest opposing coronavirus controls... Eight of the "fully vaccinated" at dead in Maine after contracting COVID-19. Some 457 "breakthough" cases of COVID-19 involving the "fully vaccinated" reported in the state... The talking point of the major media tonight 600-thousand deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the US. "Mask Dispute" leads to fatal shooting in Georgia......

Welcome to Your Weekend the sentiments of my week expressed in the music set that reflects my opening up the boxes of my past to sort things out and throw away some things and keep others. The cards and letters from people in my past like the guy that lived in an "Animal House" fraternity setting and ended up joining the Salvation Army. The man who was the Best Man at my wedding who told me the truth about myself just years after I got married and was working in the mainstream media serving as the officer of the church...

The US military pulling personnel out of Israel but first... Two members of the legislative assembly in Canada's Alberta province booted from the caucus of the ruling "United Conservative Party" tonight. They were opponents of the restrictive COVID-19 policies of Premier Jason Kenney with one of them coming out this morning calling on Kenney to resign as Premier... Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordering Border Police units deployed to deal with unrest across Israel that engulfed many cities last night as mobs of Jews and Arabs fought each other. Those units and other police overwhelmed in rioting today and tonight... Alert...