Ezra Levant

Ezra Levant is a TV anchor, newspaper columnist, author and general trouble-maker!

After graduating from law school, he went to Ottawa as a parliamentary assistant to Preston Manning. It was to be the first of many romantic but doomed political campaigns.

Levant joined the editorial board of The National Post newspaper, shortly after its founding. His beat included national politics, the Supreme Court and the Middle East. 

In 2004, Levant became the founding publisher of the Western Standard magazine, the only Canadian media outlet to publish the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. That led to two charges of “hate speech” before the Alberta government’s human rights commission.

Levant wrote a book about the experience, called Shakedown, which exposed the illiberal nature of Canadian human rights commissions. His new book called, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oilsands, was published in September 2010 and won the National Business Book Award in Spring 2011.

To the relief of his wife, Levant finally got a real job this spring, when he joined the new Sun TV all-news channel as the host of a daily talk show called The Source.

• 1. Ethical Oil

  While many North Americans may be aware of the financial and environmental price we pay for a gallon of gas or a barrel of oil, Ezra Levant argues that it is time we consider ethical factors as well. In Ethical Oil, Levant exposes the hypocrisy of the West's dealings with the reprehensible regimes from which we purchase the oil that sustains our lifestyles, and offers solutions to this dilemma. Readers at all points on the political spectrum will want to read this timely and provocative new book, which is sure to spark debate.

• 3. The Final Round

  As an insider with the Conservative Party, Ezra Levant battled with Liberal commentator Stephen LeDrew on the current affairs talk show, The Final Round. Despite the show's cancellation, Levant has continued to defend his Conservative perspective and he offers insight into the current Canadian political condition and various issues pertinent to your industry.
  
  The Final Round

• 2. Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights

• 9. The Middle East Quagmire - is there any peace left

• 8. Judicial Activism - How Canada's Courts are Replacing Canada's Politicians

• 7. Political Correctness -- How to fight it and win

• 4. Inside Canadian Politics: The View from the Right

• 6. Fight Kyoto: The Plan to Protect Canada's Economic Future

• 5. The War on Fun

  Lobbyists, politicians, do-gooders, busy-bodies and lawyers--lots and lots of lawyers--are attacking your personal liberty.
  
  Drive an SUV? Smoke the occasional cigar? Eat fast food? Not for long, you don't--not if the new Prohibitionists have their way.
  
  They'll berate you, tax you and sue you, all the while telling you it's for your own good.
  
  The War on Fun has begun. If you hope to preserve your way of life, you'll need to arm yourself. From Canada's most entertaining right wing rebel, Ezra Levant, comes a fascinating and alarming look at what's really going on in the battle against our lifestyles--and how Canadians can fight back against the onslaught before it's too late.

• Ezra Levant is one of the brightest and most articulate people of his generation.
  Mike Duffy, CTV News

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  September 2010

  Ethical Oil

  While many North Americans may be aware of the financial and environmental price we pay for a gallon of gas or a barrel of oil, Ezra Levant argues that it is time we consider ethical factors as well. In Ethical Oil, Levant exposes the hypocrisy of the West's dealings with the reprehensible regimes from which we purchase the oil that sustains our lifestyles, and offers solutions to this dilemma. Readers at all points on the political spectrum will want to read this timely and provocative new book, which is sure to spark debate.

  
  
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  March 2009

  Shakedown

  Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canada’s human rights commissions. In the wake of Levant’s 2008 showdown with Alberta’s ‘human rights commission’, he began investigating other instances in which innocent people have had their freedoms compromised by bureaucrats presuming to protect Canadians’ human rights. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases. Human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things. Shakedown is a convincing plea to Canadians to reclaim their basic liberties.

  
  
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  January 2005

  The War on Fun

  
  
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  November 2002

  Fight Kyoto

  
  
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  January 1996

  Youthquake