Off With Their Heads

This is the section for the moments when politics turns punitive. When the solution is not "let's understand the issue," but "find the villain." Teachers, doctors, unions, cities, school boards, journalists, public servants, Ottawa, activists, parents, students — someone is always being marched toward the chopping block.

Off With Their Heads is where those blame stories get pulled apart. Who is being framed as the problem? What responsibility is being shifted away from decision-makers? What context disappears when outrage becomes the main event?

Sometimes people and institutions deserve serious criticism. This section is not a shield for incompetence, corruption, cruelty, or bad policy. But there is a difference between accountability and spectacle, and Alberta politics has become very comfortable blurring that line.

When the crowd is being told to yell at the nearest target, it is worth checking who handed out the script.