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It sounds like something right out of the Twilight Zone.

On Jan. 31, 2017, Premier Rachel Notley’s office was contacted by an insurance company that specializes in pre-planned funerals.

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According to a news report by CBC Radio, the insurers, Purple Shield, informed the premier’s staff that a funeral home had received an application completed in Notley’s name, ostensibly for her own funeral at a southern Alberta funeral home.

As death threats go, you have to give that one marks for morbid creativity.

It’s certainly more imaginative than your run-of-the-mill doxing.

But most of the ranters and ravers who’ve threatened to kill, rape, or otherwise hurt Alberta’s premier over the last three years have been considerably less “artistic” in their methods.

While CBC’s recent report on threats against Notley was truly creepy, this problem is not new.

Last year, my Postmedia colleague Keith Gerein wrote about his own access to information request, which looked back at the pattern of threats against Alberta premiers.