Patrick Brethour
Patrick Brethour is the British Columbia editor for The Globe and Mail; previously he reported on the Alberta oil sector.
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Patrick Brethour
A Slippery Debate
Black-and-white moralizing about the oil sands slides too easily into caricature October 2010
I first met Ezra Levant in the depths of CTV’s Calgary studios, a hallway encounter that only lasted a few seconds, just long enough for the pugilist-conservative to grin and to flash a thumbs-up in my direction.
My thumb-worthy deed? I had made an offhand remark on air a few minutes earlier that Albertans remained unhappy about the National Energy…