Blue storm : : the rise and fall of Jason Kenney /

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

In 2019, the United Conservative Party, under the leadership of Jason Kenney, unseated the New Democratic Party to form the provincial government of Alberta. A restoration of conservative power in a province that had seen the Progressive Conservatives win every election from 1971-2015, UCP quickly b...

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Superior document:Arts in Action
VerfasserIn:
Bratt, Duane,
Sutherland, Richard,
Taras, David,
TeilnehmendeR:
Sutherland, Richard,
Taras, David,
Place / Publishing House:Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Arts in action.
Physical Description:1 online resource (510 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Page
  • Full Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Setting the Scene
  • Introduction: Jason Kenney and the Perfect Storm
  • II. The 2019 Election
  • 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"
  • 5 | Albertans and the Fair Deal
  • 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
  • IV. Oil and Gas Policies
  • 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
  • V. Alberta's Fiscal Situation
  • 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
  • VIII. Conclusion
  • 21 | Conclusion: States of Uncertainty
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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