How did we get into this mess? How did Alberta — in the midst of a pandemic — end up with a war between the provincial government and physicians? And how did the two sides get so far apart they practically need binoculars to see each other? The government says the main issue is money; the doctors say it’s respect.

As if things weren’t already bad enough for Premier Jason Kenney as he leads Alberta through a pandemic and unprecedented economic collapse, he’s now being sued by Alberta doctors. For Kenney, who’s been trying to portray himself as a noble wartime leader, this is a public relations nightmare of Biblical proportions. It would be like Rachel Notley, when she was…