Blog by John Miller
August 15th, 2017
After Charlottesville, Ezra Levant sounds like a man who long ago jumped into shark-infested waters, and is only now starting to complain about the swimming conditions.
His far-right Rebel Media website is under fire for celebrating and catering to the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who fomented violence and death on the streets of the Virginia city last weekend. It is a charge Levant trie ...
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August 4th, 2017
“Do you need a break from Liberals and socialists?”
That’s what Rebel Media, Canada’s poor cousin of right-wing Breitbart News, is currently advertising on its website – a week-long November getaway to the Caribbean aboard a luxurious cruise ship.
The catch? You have to spend most of your seven days hanging out with Rebel Media’s loonie bin of right-wing commentators.
Imagine yourself r ...
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June 19th, 2017
Once upon a time, any possibility of the government intruding in the affairs of Canada’s newspapers elicited great caterwauls of protest from righteous publishers, who feared the alien hand touching their hems might be about to make a grab for their virginity.
That’s no longer true. Now publishers have their hands out and are shaking their booties.
The sluts! Things are so bad they want gov ...
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May 20th, 2017
Sometimes if you need to wander into a forest to look for something, you can't find it. But you’re often so busy looking, you miss something more important – like a hungry bear stealing up on your flank.
That’s what happened to one of my favourite journalism sites, J-Source. “Canada’s National Newspaper Awards have a diversity problem,” it announced recently, following an analysis of the Nat ...