After Rebel staff were booted out of Alberta government press conferences in late January and early February, noted climate change denier Ezra Levant has gone on the offensive.
He’s released a video on his website that declares Rachel Notley is a bully.
“She bullied Alberta’s oil and gas workers, hitting them when they’re down. She bullied farmers and ranchers with her farm unionization law, Bill 6,” says Sheila Gunn Reid in the video.
“It not just what she does. It’s how she does it, ramming things through. Ignoring or even silencing other points of view, attacking her critics as if they shouldn’t even have the right to disagree with her at all.
“Well, now she’s trying to bully the Rebel because we dare to criticize her.”
The Rebel’s attack stems from two incidents. On January 29th the website’s Calgary reporter was asked to leave about 90 minutes into a briefing on the province’s oil royalty review, according to the Rebel.
Gunn Reid, the website’s Alberta bureau chief, was also kicked out.
Then on February 3, Gunn Reid was asked to leave another news conference after she was asked for accreditation.
On February 8th, the website’s law firm issued a letter threatening suit if the premier’s office doesn’t provide written confirmation saying that the Rebel reporters should not have been excluded from the events, and that Rebel media will not be excluded from future events.
The Legal Services Division of Alberta Justice and Solicitor General replied back on Monday with a letter, saying: “Our client’s position remains that your client and those who identify as being connected to your client are not journalists….”
A typical piece of Rebel coverage of the Alberta government was its comment on the province’s renewable technology plan.
Titled: Alberta NDP unveils $5M "job creation" scheme: Stick some foreign-made solar panels on barn roofs and written by Levant, “Rebel Commander,” the piece took the Notley government to task on its plan to use solar power.
Read the piece in part: “So, you’re sitting on the world’s third-largest oil reserves, but according to this press release, you’re going to give a $5 million subsidy to some schemes to put solar panels on top of barns?
“Solar panels that aren’t even made in Alberta — so basically, we’re subsidizing foreign manufacturers whose product can’t pay for itself without a government subsidy.”
Elsewhere on the site, Levant has posted videos with titles like “Climate change report: science fiction,” and which purport that “for 20 years global warming has been a growth industry. The IPCC report is spin, and not worth the paper it’s printed on.”
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I still cannot believe that Heav'n Starper wasn't charged during his last electoral run for inciting hatred against Muslims. More than scraping that bottom of the barrel, in desperation, his true colors came out when he started appearing with crack-head Ford. 'Evangelist' really? Here is a guy who hangs with the likes of Sheldon Adelson who, as it has been said, donated $100 million to Donald Trump's campaign including a mission to kill public health care..
The true mark of a psychopath is the willingness to do anything to quench their thirst for gain regardless of the harm it causes. It doesn't help when a gaggle of simple-minded, psychopathic, mouth-breathing, cock-eyed hillbillies urge him on. That whole scene was "Deliverance II". If I recall, correctly, Larant, Heav'n Starper's political lapdog, worked with his taxpayer funded 'Sun Media' (half a billion $ over 3 years) churning out insidious fabrications rather than fact, a product supposedly being political propaganda, that was nothing more than that of the senseless babble of a juvenile delinquent on crack. Into bankruptcy went that one. Along came the birth of 'Rebel Without a Clue' roughly based on a talking raccoon that got into a gangsters meth stash and suffered serious brain damage but learned how to talk like them and periodically lost control of his bowels. Not that it bothered him. Mixed in with that stench is that background chattering, ground squirrel with glasses, in Saskatchewan, screaming that the world of science is 'dogma' and again, a gaggle of simple-minded, psychopathic, mouth-breathing, cock-eyed hillbillies jump up and down cheering him on.
Every year 'The Darwin Award' is handed out, posthumously, for someone who, through their stupidity, was kind enough to remove themselves from the human gene pool so their genes are not propagated into the future thus making the world a safer place. With regret, there are no nominations. It is time based.