Nor was there much media coverage. Shortly after midnight, the only mainstream media news story to appear online saying Ms. Thunberg was en route to Alberta was from Montreal’s digital French-language La Presse.

The story didn’t actually contain much new information
beyond the contents of Ms. Thunberg’s tweet, which was in English, even
if you can read French — which we all can nowadays thanks to Google
Translate.

La Presse described Premier Jason #Kenney as having
been “at war” with environmental charities for their opposition to
pipelines carrying diluted bitumen to coastal ports, and went on to
recount the role environmental issues, especially carbon taxes, are
playing in the federal election campaign.

Regardless of all this, you can count on it that someone
in Mr. Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government or its War Room is
virtually guaranteed to say or do something really dumb in response.