February 2013 Archives

Former mayor of Ottawa Larry O'Brien shares his story of David Suzuki storming out of his office.

This report aired on The Source February 28 2013.

Fraser Institute president Neils Veldhuis talks to Ezra about Ontario’s debt crisis.

This report aired on The Source February 28 2012.

Scott Newark investigates whether crime is increasing or declining.

This report aired on The Source February 28 2012.

John Carpay & Chris Schafer explain why they intervened on the side of freedom in the Whatcott case

This report aired on The Source February 28 2012.

Ezra breaks down the top four things the Supreme Court of Canada got wrong on Whatcott ruling.

This report aired on The Source February 28 2012.

Ezra speaks with Tom Schuck, Bill Whatcott’s lawyer, about the Supreme Court’s ruling on free speech.

This report aired on The Source February 27 2013.

A Sun reporter showed up to a David Suzuki event and his followers were very upset.

This report aired on The Source February 27 2013.

Professor Aurel Braun joins Ezra to discuss Toronto District School board’s embrace of communism in their curriculum.

This report aired on The Source February 26 2013.

The Supreme Court of Canada is about to make a landmark ruling on free speech and Ezra is optimistic about the outcome.

This report aired on The Source February 26 2013.

Ezra talks with Alex Epstein about his confrontation with uninformed eco-radicals.

This report aired on The Source February 26 2013

Theresa Spence, the Indian chief who has run the Attawapiskat Indian band into the ground, has a new trick up her sleeve.

It’s always some trick, isn’t it? A fake hunger strike; a blockade of the nearby diamond mine; a demand to meet with the prime minister and the governor general; and when they agreed to that, a new demand to meet with them both at the same time.

Anything other than actually doing the real work of fixing the real problems on her reserve, like leaky roofs.

Well, her new stunt shows she’s truly thinking big.

She has teamed up with the International Indian Treaty Council to get the United Nations involved.

Seriously.

The IITC has written a letter to the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva, Switzerland, demanding “urgent action” be taken against Canada.

It sounds pretty serious. But, as with everything Spence does, it’s really just for show — a distraction from the real things, like the audit of band finances that shows 81% of the

$104 million transferred to the band by the federal government can’t be accounted for.

The Media Party loves Spence’s stunts because they’re easier to cover than reading through an audit, because an audit involves math, and math is hard.

Fake hunger strikes in teepees and letters to the UN are easy to cover. Plus it’s too politically uncomfortable for most reporters to ask tough questions of Spence because she’s an Indian and tough questions are racist. So a stunt is it.

Fine. So what is this IITC?

It’s got nothing to do with Canada or Attawapiskat or Treaty 9, the treaty signed by Attawapiskat in 1930.

It’s a far-left lobby group, based in San Francisco. So some activists in California have written to a UN organization in Geneva, whose members include countries like Algeria, Russia and Communist China, asking them to condemn Canada as racist.

Sounds like a Spence move.

OK. So what exactly does the letter allege? What do these experts about Attawapiskat, down there in San Francisco, have to say?

They’re mad that Canada’s racist regime has implemented a law, “Bill C-38 (that) passed amendments to over 70 federal Acts without any debate” and “Bill C-45 made changes to

44 federal laws, again without debate.”

Except that bills C-38 and C-45 were budget bills. As in, the Canadian government’s annual budget. They might not know it down in San Francisco, or over in Geneva, or out in Russia or China, but bills in the Canadian Parliament are always debated and voted on before they become laws. That’s our system. You can’t actually pass a budget without a debate.

This would all be comedy if the results weren’t so tragic for the 1,500 poor souls who have to live under Spence’s regime in Attawapiskat.

Under the Indian Act, they already have fewer rights than non-Indians, and fewer tools of government accountability and transparency too. And now Spence wants to bring in the one organization in the world that is run even worse than an Indian band, with less political accountability: The UN.

We don’t need more lawyers and diplomats in Attawapiskat. We don’t need more exotic travel for the jet-set chief.

We need things they don’t have at the UN: Men with hammers and nails to fix things. And a forensic accountant, to find out where all the money went.

This column was written for Sun News February 26 2013.

Chris Schafer, executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, chats with Ezra about the difference between real and phony rights

This report aired on The Source February 15 2013.

Chief Spence continues to avoid accountability at home by asking the UN to interfere in Canada’s governance.

This report aired on The Source February 25 2013.

Ezra asks Tom Ormsby of De Beers, if given their experience with Attawapiskat, they would have hesitation doing business with other First Nations.

This report aired on The Source February 25 2013.

Ten days ago, a judge in Timmins, Ont., finally ordered an end to the illegal blockade of the De Beers diamond mine west of the Attawapiskat Indian reserve.

A half-dozen Indians were blocking the ice road for half a month. That would be a problem for any mine or factory in Canada, but that ice road only operates for a few weeks each year, when it’s frozen solid enough to bring in heavy equipment and supplies.

The rest of the year, the billion-dollar mine is accessible only through a small airstrip.

This isn’t the first time that De Beers has faced an illegal siege.

In fact, it’s an annual event. Usually it’s a disgruntled employee or even a local resident who just wants the company’s attention to get a contract with them.

De Beers is patient; the mine isn’t going anywhere, and neither is the Indian reserve.

So every year the company bites its tongue and negotiates some friendly settlement with the shakedown artists blocking the road.

It’s not cheap — the last blockade cost the company $3.5 million dollars.

But then again, De Beers has spent $325 million on the Indian reserve over the past five years, and 100 of the 500 full-time employees at the mine itself are from Attawapiskat.

In addition to the direct employment and the contracts, De Beers also pays millions of dollars a year into a trust fund on the reserve to compensate trappers or hunters who claim the mine interferes with their traditional activities.

This entire deal — called the Impact Benefit Agreement — was put to a vote on the reserve, and received more than 85% approval.

The mine has been a good and gentle neighbour, and has received countless industry awards for environmentalism and aboriginal relations.

Which is precisely why it’s seen as such an easy mark for any disgruntled individual to shake it down for a few bucks.

But even a gentle giant can run out of patience. Which is why De Beers, after repeatedly meeting and talking with the trespassing blockaders, finally went to court to get an order kicking them off.

Justice Robert Riopelle was more than convinced. He ordered the blockaders out. But he added a very specific paragraph in his order, that applied to the police, requiring them to help the sheriff with all means necessary.

The judge specifically named the regional police superintendent at the Ontario Provincial Police, Jeff Dupuis, and Eric Cheechoo, the regional head officer of the Indian police force, called the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS). The court order “authorized and directed (them) to make available to the Sheriff such police officers, personnel and resources as may be requested by the Sheriff to prevent or stop breaches of this Order.”

The judge didn’t just order the trespassers off the road. He ordered the police to do it.

At the time of writing, a week has passed since the order was issued, and the police — including officers Dupuis and Cheechoo — have done nothing.

The blockade isn’t a heavily armed bunker, like Oka. It’s six unarmed guys sitting on a road. The police have visited them and talked with them. But haven’t moved them.

Welcome to the lawless banana republic of Ontario, presided over by political police, not real Canadian cops. Oh, the cops up there are not always this gentle.

Last month, when a TV reporter named Jennifer Tryon went to Attawpiskat to talk to local residents, NAPS detained her, put her in the back of a squad car, and moved her out.

Chief Theresa Spence personally ordered the raid and the police were only too happy to do that errand for her.

But when Judge Riopelle had a real hearing in a real court and issued a formal order to move lawbreakers, NAPS and the OPP go for doughnuts.

This is no longer De Beers that’s under seige.

This is the rule of law under attack.

The problem is no longer the trespassers. It’s the police, who would rather disobey a court order than commit the sin of political incorrectness.

This column was written for Sun News February 24 2012.

Former Executive Director for Canadian Immigration Services, James Bissett, discusses Toronto City Council’s vote to become a sanctuary city.

This report aired on The Source February 22 2013.

Saint David Suzuki’s endorses Joyce Murray for Liberal leader, violating CBC policy.

This report aired on The Source February 22 2013.

Lisa Mrazek went to Kawacatoose First Nation to speak with residents outraged with the missing donations

This report aired on The Source February 22 2013.

Attawapiskat residents continue to extort De Beers at their Victor Diamond Mine.

This report aired on The Source February 21 2013.

Neal Smitheman, De Beers Canada lawyer, discusses their court-ordered injunction being ignored and the political bias of the OPP not enforcing the law

This report aired on The Source February 21 2013.

Massimo Lecas, Italian restaurant owner, on the Quebec language police cracking down on his menu.

This report aired on The Source February 21 2013.

Professional complainer Ashu Solo has been on a "Christian hunt" ever since he got angry about a play he had to watch in elementary school.

This report aired on The Source February 20 2013.

Former CSIS officer, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, discusses Chinese espionage of the West.

This report aired on The Source February 20 2013.

Father Raymond De Souza responds to critics of the Office of Religious Freedom.

This report aired on The Source February 20 2013.

Musician Lindy Vopnjord conspired with The Source team to surprise Ezra Levant on his birthday.

This report aired on The Source February 19 2013.

Minister Jason Kenney joins Ezra to discuss the government’s efforts to protect vulnerable religious minorities around the world.

This report aired on The Source February 19 2013.

What do our political parties think about religious conservatives whose faith teaches them that there are sexual sins, including adultery and homosexuality? The answer is: It depends when you ask them.

You can't go to a Sikh temple or a Muslim mosque or an Orthodox Jewish synagogue during an election campaign without bumping into politicians of every stripe. It's a spectacle of political theatre, especially when religious headgear is introduced. Politicians who are terrified of looking goofy in a cowboy hat will fight over who gets to wear the brightest-coloured turban at Vaisakhi.

But after the votes are counted, religious conservatives, particularly minorities, have a new role. Their new job is to be seen - preferably in the camera shot while liberal politicians do the talking - but not heard.

The fake furor over a foreign development charity named Crossroads Christian Communications shows Christian conservatives have it the worst, though. They received a $545,000 grant from CIDA, Canada's foreign aid agency, to build latrines and dig water wells in Africa.

Last week, the Toronto Globe and Mail published a breathless attack on Crossroads, saying their website back in Canada - brace yourselves - paraphrased the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality.

This, concluded the Globe, cast into doubt Crossroad's suitability to receive money to dig toilets.

On cue, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair denounced Crossroads, saying its values were un-Canadian, and possibly illegal. His MP Megan Leslie went further, suggesting no group that teaches homosexuality is a sin should receive any government money.

Mulcair's riding of Outremont is about 20% Jewish, including many Orthodox Jews. Do you think Mulcair says that when he's campaigning in synagogues?

When Megan Leslie is gladhanding Sikhs?

Why does the secular left so boldly attack evangelicals - but fear to criticize minority religions or even the Catholic church, which has its own CIDA-funded foreign aid groups, and of course publicly funded schools that also teach the concept of sexual sins?

With politicians, you can rarely go wrong by assuming malice.

But in this case, ignorance is more likely to blame. Leftist, secular MPs - like the Media Party - just don't understand the concept of sin.

Christianity isn't about the absence of sin; it's based on sin. It's built on sinners. The religion has no purpose for people who don't sin. The Pope himself is a sinner, and goes to confession regularly.

Christians don't believe in destroying sinners - they believe in reforming them, bringing them out of sin through love. The Globe and Mail seems to suggest the people at Crossroads were homophobes, but would homophobes be in the middle of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, ministering to the sick?

That's the thing about the NDP's proposed fatwa against Christian charities.

It's not just an admission that their sole purpose for Sikhs and Hindus and Muslims and Orthodox Jews is for their votes alone.

It's that, if we were to shut down every charity inspired by Christian faith - World Vision, Oxfam, Salvation Army, and a hundred others - there really wouldn't be a lot of charities out there. It's not gay rights groups like EGALE running the hospices in Africa. It's the Christians.

Maybe that's what infuriates leftist bigots so much - that there are people who are motivated not by money or power, but by a religious faith so strong that they will cross the world to help sinners.

This column was written for Sun News February 19 2013.

A human rights complaint against Earls has led the restaurant chain to pull their Albino Rhino beer from the menu.

This report aired on The Source February 18 2013.

Marc Morano interviewed protesters who want to kibosh Keystone XL.

This report aired on The Source February 18 2013.

Preston Manning tells viewers what they can expect at the upcoming Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa.

This report aired on The Source February 18 2013.

Justin Trudeau lived a fairly obscure, if privileged life, until 2006. After Paul Martin’s disastrous election campaign, Trudeau’s name was floated to lead the Liberal party. And he did not rule it out.

In fact, he loved the attention. And he started getting speaking invitations — and getting paid for it. A few grand here and there — all legal — but it started to add up.

On Feb. 22, 2007, Trudeau announced his intentions to run for the Liberals in Montreal. And that hobby he had — public speaking for cash — took off like a rocket. In the next five weeks, he made $40,000 in speeches.

On April 29, 2007, he won the Liberal nomination and became the party’s official candidate. But instead of throwing himself into his neighbourhood, he left it, flying around the country, giving up to four or five speeches in a single week. That’s $40,000 a week, in personal income.

In the last eight months of 2007, as the official Liberal candidate, Justin Trudeau made close to half a million dollars on the speaking circuit. Nothing had changed about him except one thing: He was a politician now.

That’s what made him bankable. He was still an unaccomplished man. He hadn’t written a book, or started a business, or led a project, or really done anything other than say he was going to Parliament.

And even when he was elected to Parliament on

Oct. 14, 2008, he didn’t stop selling his time to the highest bidder.

In fact, he raised his rates.

Three weeks after his election win, he gave a talk to Rogers Media, one of the biggest companies in Canada, and one of the most highly regulated by the federal government — and charged them a cool $20,000. That became his new standard fee.

Trudeau became his party’s critic for youth and post-secondary education. He sat on parliamentary committees that dealt with universities and schools.

Yet, during that time, he continued to bill universities tens of thousands of dollars for the pleasure of his company. Since he entered politics, he billed universities and colleges $77,000 to meet with them. And in return, Trudeau was lobbied five times from universities, including those he had invoiced. (Opposition MPs have only had to disclose their meetings since 2010, so there may be more.)

Universities are rich. High schools and elementary schools are not. But since starting his Liberal career, Trudeau has billed schools $205,000 for speeches.

It’s not just a conflict of interest. It’s an intolerable burden on schools, that scrape together his speaking fee from money that should be going to textbooks or extracurricular activities.

Once word got out that Trudeau the politician was for sale by the hour, other industries lined up, too. Banks. Industry lobby groups. Economic development corporations. They ponied up $311,000 to Trudeau after his political career started.

Altogether, Justin Trudeau raked in $966,500 from private clients after he pressed start on his political career.

Some of his speaking clients, like the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, paid him $20,000 for one speech in 2010. It’s illegal for unions (and corporations) to give a dime to Trudeau’s political campaign. They just gave it to him personally, and called it a “speaking fee.”

Trudeau doesn’t need the money. He inherited millions in real estate and stocks from his father — plus a 1957 Mercedes Roadster worth approximately a million dollars.

So why did he do it?

Why did he routinely skip important parliamentary debates — including the Liberal party’s own motions — to grab $10,000 or $20,000 for his own wallet? Why did his parliamentary staff tell citizens calling them inviting Trudeau to speak, to contact his personal business agent, who then quoted a $20,000 fee?

Why? Because no one in Trudeau’s life has ever told him no — not his father who spoiled him, not the schoolgirl crowds who cheer him, not the Media Party that has crowned him, and not the Liberal party that will soon be owned by him.

This column was written for Sun News February 17 2013.

Ezra Levant delivers the facts on Justin Trudeau's public speaking gigs for which he's been raking in the cash.

This report aired on The Source February 15 2013.

Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour joins Ezra Levant with his take on the province's broken budget.

This report aired on The Source February 14 2013.

Criminal lawyer Zach Elias says that for the protesters in Attawapiskat, trespassing is the least of their legal concerns

This report aired on The Source February 14 2013.

Canadians aren’t used to their politicians being born rich, that’s why the Trudeau campaign had their most sympathetic journalist write a puff piece about his inheritance.

This report aired on The Source February 14 2013.

Journalist Deena Shanker explains how to make the ethical choice on Valentine's Day for your loved ones.

This report aired on The Source February 14 2013.

Ezra and freelance journalist Justin Ling go tête-à-tête on whether or not evangelical Christian ministries like Crossroads should receive government funding to treat Africans with HIV/AIDS.

This report aired on The Source February 13 2013.

You pretty much can’t be openly Christian in parliament.

This report aired on The Source February 13 2013.

Congressman Pete Olson urges Obama to get Keystone XL going and promotes the Republican Party’s #timetobuild social media campaign.

This report aired on The Source February 13 2013.

Claudia Rosett of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies discusses the dangerous alliance between North Korea and Iran.

This report aired on The Source February 13 2013.

Derek Fildebrandt of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation discusses what Alberta will have to do to balance the budget.

This report aired on The Source February 12 2013.

Ernie Crey, First Nations adviser and entrepreneur, offers advice for Attawapiskat on their diamond mine blockade.

This report aired on The Source February 12 2013.

Don Hutchinson of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada discusses CIDA funding of Crossroads and faith in the public arena.

This report aired on The Source February 12 2013.

Ezra Levant takes on the media who are bashing Christians that do great charitable work.

This report aired on The Source February 12 2013.

According to a breathless news report, the Bank of Canada hired a PR firm to focus-group 41 different images for Canada's new bank notes.

The Canadian Press reports that consultants called The Strategic Counsel were paid $476,000 to give feedback on potential new artwork for Canadian money.

That is a scandal, of course - a scandal of government waste, of outsourcing minor common-sense decisions to platinum-plated consultants.

But that wasn't what the Media Party saw as the scandal. To them, what was outrageous were the choices that were finally made for the bank notes - and the 36 ideas that weren't chosen.

Like one rejected proposal to use the back of our bank notes to celebrate "safe cities" and Canada's "no gun" culture. But that's a political statement, not a symbol of Canada's history or accomplishments. It's not even factually true - about a third of Canadian homes have guns in them, lawfully. And big-city crime is often committed with illegal guns. But how on earth does any of this belong on bank notes?

Wind turbines and solar panels were another rejected idea, to the Media Party's rage. Canada is a country of natural resources - forestry, mining, oil and gas, hydro-electric power. Currency isn't supposed to be a Liberal campaign ad for Stephane Dion's green shift or a daydream of a Solyndra lobbyist.

And what really made The Canadian Press mad was the rejection of a gay marriage theme.

Like gun control and global warming schemes, gay marriage is controversial. But to leftists, there is no Canadian symbol that shouldn't be used for political purposes - something that goes back to Lester Pearson's decision to change the Canadian flag to a pennant in Liberal colours. It's the same left-wing instinct that purged so much history and tradition from other Canadian institutions. We don't call it the Royal Mail anymore; it's Canada Post.

Pierre Trudeau blended all our military wings together as the "Canadian Forces" instead of the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the like.

The final choices for the new $100, $50 and $20 bills were sound: Queen Elizabeth, two long-serving prime ministers, and tributes to our war veterans, Canada's north, and scientific innovation. Pretty uncontroversial - exactly what you'd want in your bank notes.

But that wasn't good enough for the Justin Trudeau campaign. Trudeau's chief adviser, Gerald Butts, went into a rage about the subject on Twitter. "Perfect statement of the government's values. They should have all bills date stamped 1812," he fumed. "Stuck in the past. Diversity nixed on bills."

Well, that's the thing about remembering war vets - it's usually about the past. It's why we call it Remembrance Day.

Butts' point about diversity is equally strange. It's true two prime ministers - dead white men - were on the new bills. But unless we're going to put Kim Campbell on our money, it's going to be men for now. Does Butts object to the Queen's presence? Our $100 features a generic "researcher" looking into a microscope who just happens to be a young woman. And the $50 has a map of northern Canada and the Inuit language of Inuktitut. What is the possible objection there?

Canada's money is unremarkable - other than its value is at historic highs compared to other currencies. Maybe that's why Trudeau's campaign - and their allies in the Media Party - have freaked out about our bank notes. It's the closest they can come to criticizing Harper's economic record.

This column was written for Sun News February 12 2013.

MP Brian Storseth’s free speech bill is stalled in the Senate.

This report aired on The Source February 11 2013.

Liberals are outraged that every minority group didn’t make it on to our new bills.

This report aired on The Source February 11 2013.

Just when De Beers thought they reached a deal with Attawapiskat, a new blockade begins.

This report aired on The Source February 11 2013.

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Ezra announces this summer's Alaskan Freedom Cruise.

This report aired on The Source February 8 2013.

Rebecca Richmond and John Carpay discuss Trent University banning a pro-life club.

This report aired on The Source February 8 2013.

Tom Ormsby, spokesperson for De Beers, explains their ongoing relationship with Attawapiskat.

This report aired on The Source February 8 2013.

Canada is earning a reputation as a terrorist exporting nation.

This report aired on The Source February 8 2013.

Investigative journalist Donna Laframboise explains the hesitancy to criticize celebrities like David Suzuki.

This report aired on The Source February 7 2013.

Attawapiskat residents continue to blockade the only road to the Victor Mine.

This report aired on The Source February 7 2013.

Microbiologist Chuck Gerba on the scientific consequences of political bag bans.

This report aired on The Source February 7 2013

Calvin Helin discusses a new First Nations energy corridor that would act as an alternative to the Northern Gateway pipeline.

This report aired on The Source February 6 2013.

Senator Patrick Brazeau discusses the accusations that he's using his heritage as an excuse to criticize First Nations.

This report aired on The Source February 6 2013.

Attawapiskat residents are blockading the road to the De Beers diamond mine.

This report aired on The Source February 6 2013.

In Abbotsford, BC, a property owner has set up a symbolic cemetery on his own land, with 1,862 miniature crosses on it, to symbolize the number of abortions each week in Canada. It's like those small memorials along highways where people have died in car accidents.

Is it shocking? Maybe. But if it bothers you to think about what those crosses symbolize, that's the point. And that's why a pro-abortion extremist group wants the government to shut it down.

Joyce Arthur, executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition, has written to the mayor of Abbotsford demanding the city order the private landowner to take them down.

"Many women having abortions are not Christian and would find it doubly offensive to have their abortion represented by a cross."

So, because Arthur thinks someone could be offended, the city ought to tear down the crosses.

The silent monument is a "misappropriation of a woman's private experience that is absolutely no one's business."

So, in the name of a fake privacy violation and the counterfeit human right not to be offended, Arthur demands the government should violate the real privacy and property rights of a landowner, as well as his freedom of speech.

This is not a debate about abortion. It's a debate about whether we're allowed to have a debate about abortion. It's the censorship of the discussion itself.

That discussion is desperately needed in Canada, one of the only countries with literally no laws governing abortion whatsoever, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth, for any reason or no reason at all.

That is a bizarre anomaly in a political culture that seeks to regulate everything about our bodies, from what we drink and smoke to how much salt and trans fat we can eat.

But when it comes to abortions, Canada's political bosses take a peculiar turn towards total deregulation.

More than that, actually. Left-wing advocates who would normally condemn any private-sector health care at all positively demand that governments pay for abortions provided at for-profit private clinics.

Yes, there are things to discuss. But the status quo is so absurdly pro-choice - the pendulum literally cannot swing any further in that direction - that some pro-abortion extremists would do anything to avoid a reconsideration of things. They want to stop the debate at all costs.

We have seen uniformed police officers arrest pro-life students in Ontario and Alberta for peacefully manning pro-life displays on campus. Joyce Arthur's demand for state action in Abbotsford is really no different: Anything to avoid discussing abortion itself. It's why peaceful pro-lifers like Mary Wagner serve months in jail for violating so-called "bubble zone" censorship laws around abortion clinics that would outrage the civil-liberties left if applied to black bloc anarchists at the G-20.

Practically speaking, abortion cannot be banned anytime soon in a country where a third of the population thinks it ought to be legal. But there is surely political consensus to rein in the extremes - to end partial birth abortions, to provide for parental notification for young girls, to have PR campaigns denormalizing sex-selection abortions targeting girls.

We need to change the culture - to make going through with a pregnancy as socially fashionable as abortions have been made; to make adoptions easier; to bring back a culture of sex and life, to counter the culture of sex and death. That's a discussion Joyce Arthur wants to stop.

This column was written for Sun News February 5 2013.

Liberty in North Korea President, Hannah Song, discusses the crisis of famine and reports of cannibalism taking place in North Korea.

This report aired on The Source February 4 2013.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner discusses the psychology of a mass shooter.

This report aired on The Source February 4 2013.

The Suzuki Foundation should have its charitable status revoked by Revenue Canada for being political.

This report aired on The Source February 4 2013.

Ezra takes a close look at the David Suzuki Foundation and its rule-breaking activities.

This report aired on The Source February 1 2013.

Andrea Mrozek and Ezra on pro-life Tory MP’s calling for the RCMP to investigate post-abortion homicides.

This report aired on The Source February 1 2013.

Investigative journalist Jason Mattera tells Ezra about his confrontation with Mayor Michael Bloomberg over his gun control hypocrisy.

This report aired on The Source February 1 2013