Randy Boswell is a journalism professor at Carleton University. He was previously a national writer with Postmedia News specializing in Canadian history, politics and science, and a reporter and editor with the Ottawa Citizen. Recent freelance articles have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail, iPolitics, The Conversation, Rolling Stone and CBC.
A tweeted photo from newly-minted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney unlocks a wealth of stories about ‘preordained’ power, going back decades and involving countless political giants such as Laurier, Diefenbaker, JFK, Clinton and the Trudeaus.
