EDMONTON—Postmedia has hired a former chief of staff for the United Conservative Party to lobby the Alberta government about getting involved with its energy “war room” — an initiative promised on the campaign trail to combat what the government says is misinformation about the energy sector. Postmedia owns newspapers across the country, including the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald and the Sun papers in both cities. The war room was a campaign pledge made repeatedly by Kenney during the provincial election. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWSavage told reporters on Tuesday that more information about the war room would be coming out next week when the legislature is back in session. “The war room that the Kenney government has promised to create is essentially a government mechanism for trying to suppress and punish speech that it doesn’t like,” Holman said.

Source: thestar May 17, 2019 19:52 UTC