People need to settle down especially about things you don't understand.
A Statement of Claim is, at the best of times, an estimate based on things you might be able to prove. Some lawyers / litigants are more creative than others, but often you have to err on the side of including something rather than risk not being able to claim for it later.
The Alberta government as a plaintiff thing is mandated in law and happens all the time:
http://www.health.alberta.ca/about/t...liability.html
And it makes perfect sense really. If the Alberta Health Care system paid out tons of our cash to fix up someone who was hurt by a responsible third party, then why should Alberta taxpayers be out the money and not the responsible third party or his insurers?
As for the Flames, once again it is basic. Employee injures someone while on the job and carrying out employment duties there will usually be vicarious liability to the employer.
Hard to know for sure if the Flames will defend by saying Wideman was not acting in the course of his employment (ie went rogue and attacked a linesman was not his duties that evening) but there are often major insurance policies making the decisions in the name of the insureds so I wouldn't make too much of what is in pleadings either way.