Patrick Brethour

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…

Canada’s premiers were confronted by two oddities when they gathered in the Alberta foothills this summer. The first one was Alberta premier Ralph Klein, decked out in the costume of a masked cowboy and brandishing a mock six-shooter to ward off phantom thieves for a rodeo finale. The second was the parting comment from an anonymous…