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Since 2013, Premier Kathleen Wynne has been threatened with beheading over changes to the province’s sex-ed curriculum, and told she should “catch a bullet” for her policies.

These were among records of 97 “security incidents” involving the premier that the Citizen obtained using Freedom of Information laws. The records include four instances in which charges of uttering threats were laid.

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The menacing messages Wynne has received since becoming premier run the gamut from the bizarre to the serious. For example, someone wanted to track down her family. Someone else sent her threatening Biblical quotes. In March 2016, someone mailed a parcel containing a Canadian flag covered in excrement. The documents don’t explain why.

Mailing feces, said Neil LeMay, an Edmonton security consultant who worked for a half-decade with premiers’ security details in Alberta, is actually fairly common – and provincial security details deal with the same sort of issues countrywide.