Stranger than fiction: Alberta politics has entered the realm of absurd melodrama

Alberta politics needs a new dictionary, or maybe a thesaurus — a source for words to better describe the province’s political landscape that is beginning to resemble a badly written soap opera.

The situation Alberta finds itself in has been called “unprecedented” and “historic” and just plain “bizarre.” But no words have truly captured the melodramatic craziness of a plotline that takes ridiculous twists almost hourly.

It’s a political farce where Premier Jason Kenney is now referring to members of his own United Conservative Party as “lunatics.”