Oh The Hypocrisy

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

Western Standard: Good Riddance

Via Buckdog, we learn that Ezra LeRant's Western Standard is now defunct - or at least its print edition is.

I imagine that Ezra will keep the on-line version in some capacity - at least the discussion forum/blog sections.

Given the narrow, hard-line politics of Ezra's publication, I'm glad to see the "free market" he so idolized swatting his publication down. It reinforces my long-held belief that even in Western Canada, the extreme right wing conservatism is not by any means the majority view.