Canadians struggle to cope with the offensive noise from the Sun News Network. Typical TV viewers may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Commentator Ezra Levant. It’s 2013, and it’s time for Sun News Network commentator Ezra Levant to either apologize for or explain his comments on Sept. 5, 2012,
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Alberta Diary: Why wait? Read 2013’s shocking political headlines right now on Alberta Diary!
The Dagny Taggarts, a synchronized skating team from Ottawa get ready to do their popular routine, “Where Is John Galt?” Defence Minister Joan Crockatt is in the front row, second from right. Below: Senator Tom Flanagan; U of C economics student Kim Jong-un, in full Calgary drag; Deputy Premier Thomas
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Worst Staged Political Photo-Op of 2012: Jason Kenney
Reaffirming Jason Kenney is an egomaniac To describe this story as simply a staged photo-op would be a great disservice to the grandiose dick waving contest that Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney and professional media troll Ezra Levant were able to fully conceive. Through sheer ego and incompetence, they made
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant Hate Mongers Against Wrong Indian!
Apparently, the twitter account @ChiefSpence does not belong to Chief Spence; Ezra spent a whole day trashing the wrong person. They’re not too happy about it either. Meanwhile; fellow Sun TV personality Michael Coren…unchained. I sense another CBSC complaint in the making.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra In The (Jewish) News
I would just note that this piece in the Canadian Jewish News almost entirely ignores the ongoing hate-speech investigation of Ezra Levant, preferring instead to focus on an address he gave to the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO’s Hatikvah chapter, which is a Jewish women’s group. Ezra’s spiel, not surprisingly, was yet another
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ethical Oil Makes A Move
From John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada: Tuesday the pressure further escalated when a thick 65 page fax arrived from lawyers (JSS Barristers Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP) representing Ethical Oil. It was a copy of a complaint Ethical Oil filed with the Canadian Revenue Agency the previous week
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Police Hate Speech investigation Against Ezra Levant "Ongoing"
… and police have referred it to the Crown attorney’s office. Not much to report on this front, but more than I had previously heard, which is that the police were sitting on the file. So there you have it.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: The Nexen deal: ‘Friends with benefits’ may not be nearly as good as it sounds!
Thanks to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada’s oilpatch will soon take a Great Leap Forward. Below: CNOOC’s logo. “When we say that Canada is open for business, we do not mean that Canada is for sale to foreign governments,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper intoned at a news conference in Ottawa
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ethical Oil Update: Jamie Ellerton Demoted?
I emailed Jamie Ellerton, who until recently was listed as Executive Director of the Ethical Oil Institute, and he was kind enough to respond as follows:I remain with Ethical Oil as the part-time spokesperson. Stay tuned for what’s to come in the new year.Now that’s interesting, as it implies he
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ethical Oil Comes Alive
After almost three months of dead air, a single story in the Fort Mc newspaper of record (and a post from some crazy left-wing blogger) triggers a frenzy of activity on the Ethical Oil Twitter feed: What you want to ask here is…who is driving the feed? It does not seem
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant Forced To Deny Rumors Of EO Shutdown
Rumours surrounding the death of Ethical Oil, arguably Canada’s most vocal and controversial pro-oilsands lobbying group, are greatly exaggerated, says movement founder and Sun Media personality Ezra Levant. […] Murmurs that Levant’s brainchild [Ethical Oil] was shutting down have been swirling on social media and in online forums since early
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Problems With "Ethical Oil" (The Book)
Suncor Energy engineer Sanjay Patel:The other side of the debate is whether or not oil, including Canadian oil, is ethical. A lot of activists point to the objections from many aboriginal groups in northern Alberta. How is that addressed in the book?I …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Right-wing Sun News tries to rescue Conservative fortunes in Calgary-Centre.
TweetJust when it seems like Conservative candidate Joan Crockatt was losing ground and a tight three-way contest in the Calgary-Centre by-election, right-wing cable channel Sun News swooped in with news that will stir up the anti-Liberal sentiments …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Hypocrisy from the Far Right
To say that the extreme right is often hypocritical is tantamount to saying that when the sky is clear, it is blue. Nonetheless, I can’t help but feel more than my usual disdain when that hypocrisy is especially overt and egregious. This morning, w…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Social Credit celebrates 77 years in government.
TweetCALGARY STAR-TRIBUNE In 1935, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ hit song “Cheek to Cheek” topped the music charts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers became the first western Canadian team to win the Grey Cup. It was also the year that t…
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Message to Canada’s media: OK guys, you can stop campaigning for that Romney guy now …
Romney Defeats Obama! U.S. President Barack Obama – perhaps not exactly as illustrated – holds up a copy of the Toronto Globe and Mail after his election victory last night. Or something like that. Maybe they just missed it that we don’t get a vote. Most Canadians don’t get to vote, that is, in the …
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Apparently being Ezra Levant means never having to say you’re sorry
Sun News Network commentator Ezra Levant in a typical pose. (So typical, it’s a Sun News photo, as a matter of fact.) As tout le monde tout le monde nervously awaits today’s U.S. election, the story generating buzz on the Canadian Interwebs is a sorry tale of a Manitoba journalist fired for annoying her local …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: A History of recent Federal By-Elections in Alberta.
TweetThe November 26 by-election in Calgary-Centre will be the fourth federal by-election held in Alberta in the past twenty-six years. In that time, only one of the by-elections saw the election of a candidate not from the incumbent political party. All three by-elections were won by candidates representing conservative parties.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant…My Part In His Downfall
Well,it finally happened: On Thursday October 11, 2012, Toronto’s Roma Community Centre officially reported a hate crime to the Toronto Police Services and an investigation is now underway. This was in response to overtly racist, prejudicial, and demeaning statements made by Sun News Network commentator, Ezra Levant, which were broadcast live on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Its Usefulness At An End?
A brief note on an otherwise uneventful Saturday. There has been no new material added to the Ethical Oil website since September 10th. The same thing applies to their twitter feed. Furthermore, most of the people that took over from creators Ezra Levant and Alykhan Velshi seem to have left the
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