Ezra Levant urged to run in newly vacant Calgary Centre There would be an endless amount of muck to fling that would stick to Ezra and any Tory stupid enough to be seen within a 100 meters of him. Starting with, just for example, this. Remember: to know Ezra is
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: When Chris Met Ezra
I’m surprised that the entire Universe did not disintegrate in a flash of pure dorkiness as soon as their elbows touched. More pics here.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Tar Sands Oil Companies 71 Percent Foreign-Owned – Cue Ezra Levant’s Outrage
Foreign Control of Tar Sands.png ForestEthics released a game-changing research brief today documenting the massive foreign control of Alberta's tar sands oil industry. Publicly traded oil companies with active tar sands operations have a very high level of foreign ownership – 71 per cent. Some supposedly "Canadian" oil companies including
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun News Network’s Problem Is Not Being "High On The Dial"
Sun News Network received a $3-million investment from its co-owners in the last quarter, as losses accelerated at the upstart network amid struggles to attract the subscriber base needed to woo large advertisers. […] Sun News launched just over a year ago, and worked to secure distribution deals with broadcasters
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What Will They Whine Of Next?
From the CHRC page detailing with access to info requests: Logically, the only people on the planet who would care would be the folks named in the request itself, desperately trolling about for something to be fake-outraged about. It appears, however, that they haven’t found anything useful, as Fox News
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: U.S. Republican Koch oil billionaires help fund the Fraser Institute. Why the Fraser Institute?
Vancouver Observer.png Authored by Jenny Uechi, originally published at Vancouver Observer. Re-posted with permisison. U.S. libertarian oil billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have poured at least half a million dollars into The Fraser Institute over the last few years. In case you haven't been following their trail, here's a bit
Continue readingbastard.logic: Pushing Weight
After Ethical Oil is done with its proxy Zombie Joe McCarthy crusade against the David Suzuki Foundation (what, are Ezra & co. gonna put out a hit on Raffi next?), perhaps it might consider lobbying the feds to take a look at another clear example of untoward abuse of our noble charitable
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: A Red Tory Victory in Alberta!
Well, go figure. Who would have thought that a resurgence of the “Red Tory” political brand would occur in, of all places, Alberta? For weeks now, right-wing pundits across the land have been viciously excoriating the Alberta PCs for being “Red Tories” and for having drifted so far to the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Unethicull Oil: What Alberta’s Wolf Cull Plan Tells Us About Canada’s Oil Addiction
Picture 5.png DeSmog recently sent a team to the tar sands region of Alberta to investigate the proposed government plan to systematically kill off the province’s wild wolf population in a supposed effort to recover dwindling caribou herds. The proposed cull has been widely criticized internationally for placing the interests
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: WildRose Candidate Once Ran Afoul Of Human Rights Commision
After posting this on the 1999 meetup of Wildrose candidate Link Byfield and White Nationalist Paul Fromm, I got to thinking of an old on-line document I stumbled over once while doing something else. This one in particular. It pertains to a 2002 Alberta HRCC (Human Rights and Citizenship Commission) complaint brought
Continue readingDumb and Dumber 2 announced
Word is it will be a Canadian production. From Montreal Simon
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: the definition of silly season. is this what “change” looks like?
The wheels came off the Progressive Conservative election campaign this week. If you are looking for a definition of “silly season” the first week of Alberta’s 2012 provincial election fits the bill. Despite major policy announcements from each of the main political parties this week, the campaign is being reported
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Night Justin Trudeau Humiliated the Cons
OK. So I admit I was a bit worried about this one eh? In fact, to be perfectly honest I thought that Patrick Brazeau was going to KILL Justin Trudeau. And so did the Ezra Levant… Because in the minutes leading up to the match he was in a frenzy
Continue readingTrudeau TKO’s testosterone out of Sun News talking heads
OK. I didn’t see the fight. My cable co. doesn’t carry Sun News. But I watched the tweets. Won a Tweet TKO of my own over Monte Solberg. And marvelled at Justin Trudeau winning in enemy territory. From what I can gather the broadcast was 40% climate change denial, 40%
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant And The "Actual Facts"
From a CBSC (Canadian Broadcast Standards Council) complaint I hadn’t even heard about: The CBSC has traditionally recognized that hosts of public affairs programs are entitled to hold and express their opinions on the topics discussed during those programs, even when those opinions are controversial, unpopular or provocative. 1 While
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: On Ezra Levant’s Victimhood
I have been blogging for nearly four months now, and am embarrassed to admit that — contrary to firmly established best blogging practices — I have yet to engage in the art of personal attack. Today, I intend to correct this error and make the anonymous overlords of the blogarchy
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun News Tries To Raise Funds
Apparently nobody showed up for Ezra’s Freedom Weekend. You can deduce this from the fact that when you google “Ezra Levant” and “Freedom Weekend” you get basically nothing. Not a single news story, blog-post, tweet, twit-pic…nothing. The gang at FreeD bowed out; the Shaidle’s were busy waving placards in front of a
Continue readingHarpes spreading through Conservative party. Epidemic proportions.
Harpes symptoms: sweaty, fidgety, guilty looking as hell, overcompensating denials Harpes [har-peez] noun Conservative Pathology 1. Blistering dishonesty, festering corruption, uninhibited contagion among Conservatives. 2. Most prevalent among those closest to Prime Minister Harper (Vic Toews, Dean Del Mastro). Also known to infect Conservative rap duos (Easy-E and K-Mart).
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Ethical Oil: The Puppet Rap
It's time for Friday funnies, and the top hit today is Ethical Oil: the Puppet Rap, which first popped up over at The Tyee. It's a foul-mouthed, satirical music video remix of Kathryn Marshall's ridiculous PR gymnastics to avoid answering a basic question from CBC's Evan Solomon whether Enbridge funds the
Continue readingObama addresses Rex Murphy, Ezra Levant, Stephen Harper
Rex and Ezra look for Stephen. “I know he’s around here somewhere.” Not by name of course; Obama has no idea who the first two are and merely a begrudging acknowledgement of the third. But by speaking about climate change denialists, equating them with flat earthers, Obama could have been
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