Members of Toronto’s Roma Community Centre will disassociate itself from a number of other groups protesting a reception for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney–who will be honoured by the Canadian Friends of Haifa University (CFHU) on Nov. 4 at the Fairmount Royal York hotel– to symbolically show that they are not anti-Israel, merely
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Hate Speech Complaint Against Ezra Levant To Be Submitted To Police
From the Jewish Tribune, but not yet on line: I’ll probably write more about this story eventually, as it tries to play the “Anti-Israel” card against Ms. Csanyi – Robah on some pretty weak grounds, and also insinuates that Bernie Farber (noted above) is somehow up to something nefarious. But
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Sun News Network apologizes … sort of … while the CRTC runs and the CBSC surrenders
Intrepid CRTC investigator looks into Sun News Network’s on-air obscenities. Agents of the Canadian broadcast regulator may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Sun News commentator Ezra Levant; Bernie M. Farber. Canada’s broadcast regulator has dropped its investigation of foul-mouthed commentator Ezra Levant’s obscene on-air language last June after Sun
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Someone’s Gonna Shit
…when they read this. The shitting will likely begin here, and spread quickly to other parts of the Internet. Is the on-line world broad enough to contain the veritable storm that is coming?
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tuesday Tidbits
As the Margaret Wente plagiarism story finally hits the mainstream, she discovers a lone defender…yeah, Ezra Levant, and for him it really all comes down to The Muslims. Ah well, as Ms. Wente herself once wrote: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” (PS.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Roma, Jason Kenny, And The University of Haifa
The Roma Community Centre of Toronto, Canada has sent a letter–their second, because their first from earlier this month has not been responded to–to the University of Haifa in Northern Israel, asking that the University “reconsider granting an honorary doctorate to [Minister for Citizenship and Immigration] Jason Kenney”, due to the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun TV Issues Grovelling Apology To Roma–Ezra Levant Hates On
I am told that Sun TV ran a scrolled apology to the Canadian Roma community last evening during Ezra’s show, although I am not seeing it in the vids posted to the network’s website.Ezra, it should be noted, has not issued his own apology, which means that a criminal hate
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Criminal Hate Speech Complaint To Be Filed Against Ezra, Sun News?
When Deboaned noted in my comments section that police were “taking an interest” in Levant’s anti-Roma screed, I didn’t think much of it. But now I am informed by usually reliable off-line sources that, indeed, the CBSC/CRTC complaints are essentially filed and the police have been approached. I don’t know if,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Lewis writes a fascinating piece on Barack Obama’s life as president. And I’d think it’s particularly noteworthy to consider Obama’s self-discipline both as a model for self-improvement in theory, and as a risk factor in opening up a perception gap between
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Apocalypse and the Monarch Tree
So I'm sitting on a bench down by the swan pond this evening, staring at the signs of The Apocalypse. Two little trees that have surrendered to the Canadian winter. Already. And I'm screaming at them, in my mind. How could you do this to me? How could you leave
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Audio From The Clip That Got Ezra Levant Censored By Sun TV
…can be found here (warning: it may meet the legal def of hate speech). Meanwhile, no word about what Fox News North plans to do about The Ez’s latest transgression. Kind of what the way they behaved when he defamed George Soros. First silence, and then a grovelling apology on Ezra’s
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Who’s censoring Ezra now? Has Sun News Network seen the light?
A screen shot of the blank spot on Ezra Levant’s website: no link, the plug pulled, presumably by Sun News Network. Below: Mr. Levant in full rhetorical flight. Where is Ezra Levant’s Sun News Network rant on Roma immigration to Canada, which has been depicted as ethnic stereotyping to foment
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun TV Deletes Ezra Levant’s Anti-Roma Screed
It used to be here. Background on the network’s latest foray into hate-speech here. H/T to Dawg And a question to Kory Teneycke, boss of bosses at Fox News North (Sun News Network): why let these kind of broadcasts happen, and then pull them down when they cause your network
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant In More Hate Speech Trouble
Gina Csanyi-Robah of the Roma Community Center writes: As a result of Levant’s hate speech targeting our community, the RCC has been in contact with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and is currently writing formal complaints to the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council, the Canadian Media Association, the Canadian Ethnic media Association, and the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Someone’s Gonna Get Sued!
But not me! I’m just pointing to it, not describing it. Thus, according to the Supreme Court Of Canada, I’m right as rain, no matter how noxious my intentions might be. Though I assure you all they are pure as gold. I’m also just pointing to, but not describing, this,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Ethical Oil charity complaint sparks Alberta corporate complaint
Commentator Ezra Levant lets go a broadside at Tides Canada on his Sun News Network program. Below: Researcher Tony Clark; Jamie Ellerton, executive director of Mr. Levant’s Ethical Oil Institute; National Revenue Minister Gail Shea. As is well known, the “Ethical Oil Institute,” the Edmonton-based organization founded by Sun News
Continue readingUnderlooked Stehepn Harper quotes P6: Miscellaneous
Part 6 of underlooked Stephen Harper quotes. Part one, two, three, four and five here. Reform-Alliance takeover He [Stephen Harper] credits Manning for at least calling for a united alternative but notes the option is ‘seriously flawed’ because it is essentially a Reform to take over the Conservative Party. 04/1998
Continue readingUnderlooked Stehepn Harper quotes P6: Miscellaneous
Part 6 of underlooked Stephen Harper quotes. Part one, two, three, four and five here. Reform-Alliance takeoverHe [Stephen Harper] credits Manning for at least calling for a united alternative but notes the option is ‘seriously flawed’ because …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Do You Have What It Takes To Write For Sun News?
Please note: no journalism degree needed or wanted. YOU’RE CONSCRIPTED! JOIN THE SUN NEWS TEAM Do you think differently? Have you dreamed about working in the media but couldn’t stomach the thought of the group think therapy sessions? If you’re on a relentless pursuit of the truth, we might have
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: I Kid You Not
Ezra Levant, a pro-Green columnist for the Left-leaning Toronto Sun, said, “this pirate is pathetic. Paul Watson is a criminal who has embraced his darker side and needs to be prosecuted.” Its from the Dallas Blog. Things are different down in Texas.
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