After a tumultuous couple of months here at home, Premier David Eby will head to Yellowknife this week for the kind of event he typically excels at — navigating interprovincial politics on the national stage.

The premier will join his counterparts from Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories at the Western Premier’s Conference from May 21-22.

If history holds, you can expect some sort of standout moment from Eby at the event. He usually creates national waves, whether it was wearing an “I love heat pumps” shirt to criticize unfair federal funding at a premiers’ meeting last year, or signing on to Newfoundland and Labrador’s court case against Ottawa over equalization payments, or cutting a deal with Alberta to solve a wine dispute.

The premier is adept at finding ways to create news moments out of these summits. The expectation is he’ll find creative ways to do it again this week.

This particular Western Premiers’ Conference comes at an intriguing time.

Eby finds himself under fire by First Nations leaders who were not consulted and vow to oppose his Bill 15 legislation to fast-track major building projects. It’s the latest........

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