The site Ezra is using to raise money for his latest defamation suit has been hacked. Don’t know what issue B3Yaz has with him, but there’s some nice gypsy-like music playing on the site now, so maybe it’s in solidarity with The Roma (who Ezra slimed). Update: Dawg says the
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Canadian Broadcast Standards Council Dings Ezra Levant Again!
From the release: The host of The Source, Ezra Levant, showed videoclips of a protest that had occurred outside the Sun’s Toronto office. The protestors objected to Sun Media’s coverage of the Idle No More movement. A few days later, Levant replayed the clips, saying that, following their initial broadcast,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Got trouble with ‘overbearing urban planners’? The Manning Centre wants to help!
A civic election all-candidates’ meeting in Calgary. “Why don’t we pass the time with a game of solitaire?” Actual Manning Centre supported candidates may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Manning Centre namesake Preston Manning; Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi; Calgary developer Cal Wenzel (CTV photo). If on Oct. 21 the
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Protester farted in my face: Sun News reporter Faith Goldy
Another case of “she who smelled it, dealt it?” So shouts Fox News North. Or, Faith Goldy to be exact. Goldy spoke about the incident on The Source, saying, “”I’m just minding my own business, when all of sudden something putrid emerges in the air. So I gaze from my
Continue readingAlberta Diary: CRTC ruling notwithstanding, Sun News and its campaign for subsidies will continue
Sun News Network gets ready to take Phase II of its campaign for subsidies on the road. Actual action plans by the right-wing broadcaster in light of the CRTC’s denial Wednesday of free cash from consumers and a favourable location on the TV tuner may not turn out to be
Continue readingLeDaro: Sun may not rise tomorrow
In yet another meteorological anomaly, the sun may not rise tomorrow. Ezra Levant is at it again and no sunshine for him. H/t: Dr. Dawg’s Blawg Blog. I first misunderstood him. I needed more coffee.:)
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Freedom Cruise Update: The 70
The first evidence emerges that Ezra Levant’s “Freedom Cruise” is not an elaborate hoax. Through the link given at bottom you can see the uncropped version of this shot, with Ezra himself and FrackNation co-director Magdalena Segieda visible to the right. Lets analyze what we can see here a bit, shall
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Adieu to Mark Lisac, hello to Ric Dolphin – not exactly the same kettle of fish!
The estimable Mark Lisac, at left, interviews Ted Morton, the worst premier Alberta never had, back in 2011. Below: Insight Into Government Publisher Ric Dolphin, photo grabbed from his Twitter account. Mark Lisac’s Insight Into Government newsletter was always worth reading. This retro-style, subscription-only publication – which was emphatically not
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Who is driving the conservative agenda in Canada?
TweetIn America’s Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think-tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across the country. This apparatus of conservative special interest groups, think-tanks and news
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Have You Ever Been To Sea, Billy? A Freedom Cruise Update
Just a brief note. Coming up on their August 3rd sail date, the twitter feeds of Ezra Levant, Brian Lilley, Monte Solberg, and other Freedom Cruise “celebrities” have gone dark. These folk are either on the move, or it went bust and Ezra has sworn them to silence. But I
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media Shutters Another
Bye Bye Dresden-Bothwell Leader-Spirit! Sun Media needs the money it saves from closing you down to fund the antics of The Monkey King: .@montesolberg and I posing in our swimsuits in preparation for the FreedomCruise.ca #spanx pic.twitter.com/K7qDxaQBmA— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) August 1, 2013 Apparently they ship out in a couple
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Freedom Cruise Update!
With not much happening in Ottawa these days, I thought I’d check in on the state of Ezra Levant’s Freedom Cruise. And the news is…its still sucking. But in a slightly different way: Wildrose leader Danielle Smith has also scraped [sic] her original summer plans, including a weeklong Alaska “Freedom
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Warning to Tories: It’s not just Trudeau any more … it’s open season on public speakers!
Dave Rodney, the only Conservative MLA for Calgary Lougheed ever to have climbed Mt. Everest twice, or once, for that matter. He is an inspirational speaker. Really. Below: The young Justin Trudeau. Below Mr. Trudeau: The young G. Gordon Liddy and your blogger, also young. Is that 1970s moustache action
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sarah Palin Guest On Ezra Levant’s Freedom Cruise?
No. Almost certainly not. Its still just these losers: The “crazy 8”, as I like to call them. But its another slow news day and I wanted to spike this rumor before it got too far.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Andrew Coyne’s Letter To Ezra: The Secret First Draft
Andrew Coyne, in response to a query from Ezra Levant, has written a short letter outlining his position with respect to the CRTC’s granting CBC special distribution rights. I have been able to acquire (through secret sources at the National Post) an early draft of this letter, which I think
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Viva Con! Hasta la Victoria Siempre con Conrad – putting the ‘cross’ back in Crossharbour!
Lady Black and Lord Black of Crossharbour contemplate the future of our fair Dominion, or something. Below: The real Conrad Black, in happier times, lectures a gangrenous limb as his bodyguard ponders his boss’s remarkable vocabulary; the House of Lords. Oh dear! Poor old Tubby Black, welcomed back home after
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant’s Freedom Cruise Update: Tips For Travelers
As you know, last year Ezra Levant and the Sun News Network arranged a “Freedom Weekend” up in Muskoka for big-C Conservative zealots. Since nobody who signed up for that trip has ever spoken ill of it, or even been seen again, Ezra and the gang have decided to try
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant And All His Friends
From the Twitter “fake follower” check, which tells you how many of your twitter followers are real: So it looks like someone has been buying Ezra bulk followers. Anyway, compare this with the report you get for a real journalist–Canada’s sweetest little angel, Kady O’Malley: Or even Hairface, from Lethbridge: So
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Wicked Witch war of words: ‘Has Thatcher bashing crossed a line?’ Well, er… no!
The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Below, Ezra Levant in an orange wig with a can of Orange Crush mocks Jack Layton’s funeral. RIP or give it a rest? Oh my – quelle horreur! – naughty Britons still appalled by the depredations visited upon their
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Little Perspective Please
An interesting thing about The Jewish Tribune’s story about the death of Doug Christie, lawyer to Canada’s far right, is that it isn’t really about the death of Doug Christie. Rather, it is about the reaction to Doug Christie’s death by ex-CJC head Bernie Farber. Anyone that knows Bernie knows
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