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Ezra Levant sparred with a lawyer cross-examining him Tuesday as he took the stand to defend himself against defamation allegations.
Levant, head of Rebel Media, is facing a $200,000 lawsuit from his days with the now-defunct Sun News Network.
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The plaintiff in the case is Farhan Chak, a professor of political science at Qatar University who hails from Edmonton and was briefly a federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont.
A trial on the allegations began before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard Monday.
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A university professor and former Liberal Party candidate’s defamation lawsuit against pundit Ezra Levant has made it to court six years after it was filed.
On Monday, Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard heard opening arguments in the case of Farhan Chak, who launched a lawsuit against Levant in 2015 over comments Levant made on his Sun News Network program.
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According to Chak’s statement of claim, Levant alleged during his Feb. 25, 2014, broadcast that Chak was involved in a shooting at an Edmonton nightclub in 1993, when Chak was 19.
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Deborah Dobbins s mother, Mae, sits in front of the homestead house where she grew up in Wildwood, Alta., west of Edmonton. Wildwood was the province s first established Black community.(Submitted by Deborah Dobbins)
February is Black History Month. To mark it, The Road Ahead has asked several Black Albertans to share their personal stories and their hopes for the future of this province
. Our series starts today with this column by cultural and special education consultant Deborah Dobbins.
For African American Albertans, prejudice, discrimination and marginalization began when we stepped across the border in the early 1900s and it has not gone away.
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Sen. Elaine McCoy is being remembered as an “energetic advocate of Alberta’s interests” after dying Tuesday morning at the age of 74.
McCoy had a decades-long career in politics as an Alberta Progressive Conservative Party MLA for Calgary West after succeeding former premier Peter Lougheed in 1986. She served in that role until 1993 and was later appointed to the Senate in 2005, where she was an influential voice for reform of the upper chamber.
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