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Ezra And The Law: A Small Victory?

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Ezra Levant's twitter feed from back in the fall of 2017: Ezra's twitter feed today, after I sent a series of emails to the Alberta Law Society and then the Law Society of  Ontario  arguing that, since the guy is no longer a lawyer , he shouldn't be allowed to go around calling himself one: Now, correlation does not = causation, but I know the Ontario body was in touch with him (File 2017-211411), and I'd like to think I helped in a small way to make Ezra's life more miserable.

Your Daily Nazi: Nazi Salutes At Rebel Media Event Attended By CPC Leadership Candidates

. @ezralevant says @HilaryBeaumont is lying about seeing a Nazi salute in the crowd, but, ummmm... (c/o @sdbcraig ) pic.twitter.com/RMgHDlbI0J — Beisan Zubi (@beisan) February 16, 2017 PS.  Anyone with more crowd shots, please post somewhere.

Before You Cancel That Telus Contract!

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because the company favors a price on carbon , read Rebel Media's (that's Ezra Levant's latest venture, if you haven't been paying attention) fight back letter! Note the fifth and seventh paragraph.  While Holly the Rebel wants you to dump Telus  now , she herself only plans to cancel someday, maybe, if the cards fall right.  That's about the lamest form of rebellion I've ever seen.   PS.   They address me as Heywood J. because I am in the Rebel database as Heywood J. Blome.  Its an old joke.  I get a ton of email from these folks.

Ezzrata: When Ezra Levant Was Young And Sue-y

Someone has posted a trove of legal documents from Ezra Levant's past, related to a libel case he brought against the University of Calgary student newspaper, back in the day.  Human rights lawyer Richard Warman has posted some commentary re this case on his website.  Here I'm just copping my favorite bits: – 28 April 1993 – Ezra Levant swears an affidavit in which he says a Gauntlet reporter named Arnold Nowicki called him names in the University of Calgary bookstore, that “the said remarks can cause irreparable damage to the Plaintiffs’ reputations” given the comments were in a public place, and that the Plaintiffs therefore needed an injunction against Arnold Nowicki and everyone at the Gauntlet from “making any comment about the Plaintiffs”. Ezra Levant says Arnold Nowicki called him the following names: low lifes assholes bullshits that we get kicks out of intimidating people nasty motivated by revenge that we beat up on people – 3 May 1993 – Ezra Levant obtains a complet...

Ezra Levant's Hearing Before Alberta Law Society Has Been...

... postponed  while they consider his application to resign .  Sounds like he wants to swing a trade; he'll quit if he exits with a clean slate.  In the end, though, he won't be able to say he's a lawyer anymore, and he won't be able to make $ from it.  Good either way?

Ezra Levant, The Alberta NDP, And Journosplaining

I guess I should say something about this .  Alberta's NDP government decided they weren't willing to put up with any more disruptions out of kooks from The Rebel (the online HQ of Ezra Levant's personal death cult), and kicked them out of one of their press conferences.  They're rationale was that Ezra was, in his own words, "not a journalist".  Of course, when the real journos heard about this, they collectively shat, and rushed to our lads defense. Not like rational men.  Like Pavlov the dog drooling at his master's bell.  Like chimps chasing a stray banana. And their arguments were quite silly. There's apparently no way to tell who is a journalist and who isn't; also, its important to allow even bad journalism.  Imagine if someone had applied this line of thinking to cars.  How can we really know which cars are safe?  But we must allow even shitty cars! But of course nobody making these arguments believes them for one second.  What rea...

The Alberta Climate Plan: Is Ezra Levant Right?

Not when he says the oil companies don't represent the oil companies, but in his generally negative attitude towards the whole thing?  Well, let's play Devil's advocate for a minute.  What does Alberta get  from the rest of the planet for imposing on itself an economy-wide carbon tax?  We know what it wants: pipelines West and South so it can sell its oil to Asia.   Nobody really cares about Energy East . But Keystone is dead.  So we're down to Northern Gateway and Transmountain .   Does the plan buy them either?  Well, the Trudeau government is going to formally ban oil tankers along B.C.'s North coast, so Northern Gateway is still dead.  What about Transmountain?  Well, a lot of the opposition to this line has nothing to with climate change, and of course there is a faction in the enviro community who would like the oil-sands shut down regardless of any commitments to better behavior the province and the oil companies might make. ...

Ezra's Calgary Anti-Tims Protest: The Money Shot

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24 heads clearly visible; one other soul, maybe, holding up the sign next to "#Boycott Tim's" sign. Ezra has claimed 50 attendees, but he must be seeing double.  Get those glasses checked, Ez! PS: Here's another shot.  I count 23 people in this one: