There is a convention that when a person dies, one finds kind words to say about them -- even if many of their views and actions might have been anathema.

When this writer did just that in the case of the late Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a number of rabble readers reacted with scorn.

Doing the same for Jim Prentice, who died on Thursday night in a plane crash near Kelowna, British Columbia, at the age of 60, may elicit the same reaction.

But here goes, nonetheless.

Although he was an Albertan, Jim Prentice did not start his political career in the 1990s with the Alberta-based, bad-boy, rebel Reform Party.

Friday, Sept. 23, will be Resignation Day for Jason Kenney, the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidate told a crowd of about 50 -- most of them PC Party members whose support he is seeking -- in the Edmonton bedroom suburb of St. Albert last night.

"Friday of next week, I will resign," Kenney told the crowd, emphatically, later confirming that his Parliamentary R-Day will be Sept. 23 after talking steadily for nearly two hours.

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The crowd may have seemed grey and paunchy via the TV feed from Calgary, but there were plenty of fresh young faces lined up behind Jason Kenny yesterday as the 48-year-old former Harper government cabinet minister made it official he's about to attempt a rare double reverse hostile takeover of both the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties.