There is a grand irony at play here.
Apparently, in the course of 2006/7, The Western Standard magazine received some $132,063 in taxpayer funding. In 2005/6 the amount was $63,366.
Coming from a magazine whose editorial stance constantly complained about the evils of "big government" and the supremacy of the "free market", I can only muse about the irony of learning that Ezra was as firmly attached to the teat of government funding as that.
h/t: Canadian Cynic
3 comments:
Even with all that taxpayers' money he still couldn't make it go.
And he wanted to be an MP?
And he aspired to party leadership?
Please keep him where he is--in Alberta.
We have a bad enough right wing nutjob by the name of Michael Coren. And John Tory, too.
I totally support free market principles in the libertarian sense, which is where we obviously differ. But you're bang on - the magazine was fraught with hypocrisy in taking tax subsidies. And it still went belly up.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.....
E.
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