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Now would be a great time for Premier Jason Kenney to ask: What would Jason Kenney do?
The version of himself from four or five years ago, that is.
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Toward the end of 2016, Kenney was keeping himself busy vying for the leadership of the old Alberta Progressive Conservative party â a race he would win in March 2017.
By the middle of that year, the membership of the old PC and Wildrose parties would agree to merge and form the United Conservative Party.
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Now would be a great time for Premier Jason Kenney to ask: What would Jason Kenney do?
The version of himself from four or five years ago, that is.
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Toward the end of 2016, Kenney was keeping himself busy vying for the leadership of the old Alberta Progressive Conservative party â a race he would win in March 2017.
By the middle of that year, the membership of the old PC and Wildrose parties would agree to merge and form the United Conservative Party.
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Pretending a problem doesn’t exist doesn’t make it go away.
This concept is apparently foreign to the Edmonton police, whose social media team put out a rather tepid, nothing-to-see-here statement on Feb. 20 just hours after what was ostensibly billed as a demonstration against COVID-19 public health orders.
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“Several hundred protesters converged on the Alberta Legislature for a rally today, the vast majority of whom exercised their freedom of expression peacefully and respectfully,” the statement read.
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Pretending a problem doesn’t exist doesn’t make it go away.
This concept is apparently foreign to the Edmonton police, whose social media team put out a rather tepid, nothing-to-see-here statement on Feb. 20 just hours after what was ostensibly billed as a demonstration against COVID-19 public health orders.
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“Several hundred protesters converged on the Alberta Legislature for a rally today, the vast majority of whom exercised their freedom of expression peacefully and respectfully,” the statement read.
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We must remember it might still be possible for people to be contagious even after large segments of the population have received their COVID-19 immunization.
The purpose of the vaccines currently under study or in production is to prevent severe illness and deaths due to COVID-19. They weren’t designed to prevent onward spread, although there is a possibility some of the shots might.
And we must consider the possibility of vaccine effectiveness diminishing as the new coronavirus itself evolves and adapts over time.
In many parts of the world, it is expected newer, more-contagious COVID-19 variants will become the dominant strains as soon as next month.