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Hatred on an Alberta golf course

06/20/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

For years I have been warning that hatred kills. Like it did in Orlando last Sunday. Or like it did in Britain last Thursday. When the gentle, decent Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a another cowardly bigot. And I’ve also warned that the same poison was spreading in Canada. Where […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, Brian Jean, Britain, Canada, crime, Ezra Levant, GLBT, GLBTQ, Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley, U.S., violence, Wildrose Party

About that audit

05/05/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) $3.1 Billion is missing, according to a damning audit of the Harper Government. Let’s see what the political pundits have had to say about recent audit revelations: – Headline in The Star: Federal government audit “severely critical” – The Star: “The independent audit […] speaks for itself, and we accept […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Auditor General, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Ezra Levant, Globe and Mail, John Ibbitson, National Post, Patrick Brazeau, Rob Silver, Toronto Star

Fort McMurray’s Keyano College sends arts to tailings pond

05/06/2012 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

By Frank Moher The sacking of four instructors in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Keyano College in Fort McMurray is creating an uproar well beyond the city better known for its resource extraction talents. Artists, of course, are well aware that their masters — whether they be cabinet ministers or academic administrators — […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, arts, business, Canada, Ezra Levant, Fort McMurray, Keyano College, music, theatre, visual arts

War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.

12/23/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless War […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Charles Adler, Christmas, Ezra Levant, religion, Sun News Network

Alykhan and Ezra’s ethical snake oil

08/01/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Alykhan Velshi’s wee blog Ethical Oil, named after Ezra’s book, has relaunched with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. You can choose either good or evil — you know, conflict oil = woman being stoned to death vs. ethical […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alykhan Velshi, Bruce Carson, Canada, Canadian politics, Ezra Levant, oil sands, Stephen Harper, Suncor, Syria

Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem

06/12/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they’re supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra Levant, who, when he shut […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, Canada, Ezra Levant, Kory Teneycke, Krista Erickson, Lee Richardson, Margie Gillis, Sun News Network, television, Western Standard

SUN TV Snooze Network

04/24/2011 by backofthebook.ca 10 Comments

By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn’t paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant’s show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who watches this low […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Ezra Levant, news, Sun News Network, television

Oil sands cheerleader Levant: Slurs ‘R’ Us

09/21/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The three American senators who took a tour of the tar sands last week, along with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, are all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. So while they were looking at this: They were seeing this: That fuzzy bit in the red portion that takes up well over […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Ed Stelmach, Ezra Levant, Greenpeace, oil sands, Sun News Network, U.S., U.S. military

Standard procedure

10/19/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher I felt some sympathy for Ezra Levant around the shuttering of his Western Standard magazine, until I received this item of boilerplate e-mail: Dear Western Standard reader, I’m sorry to report that we’ve had to shut down the print edition of the Western Standard. Despite nearly four valiant years of trying, we […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Ezra Levant, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, magazines, orato.com, thetyee.ca, Western Standard

He’s too sexy for his shirt

12/08/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher I was as excited as I know you must have been to receive a note from Ezra Levant, publisher of The Western Standard, announcing that the new Mark Steyn T-shirts are in — and just in time for Christmas. “Do you love our columnist Mark Steyn as much as I do?” Mr. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Ezra Levant, journalism, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, Western Standard

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