Ezra Levant: The Final Failure?

After years of stalling, Ezra Levant, KKKate, and Five Foot have all thrown in the legal towel and issued grovelling apologies to Richard Warman over the infamous Cools Post.  No word on costs and etc., but in Ezra's case they will likely be huge, for he insisted  that a ton of forensic work be done on Warman's various computers in a vain attempt to find evidence Richard had even used them on the relevant day. Ezra found nothing, not surprising as  his claim was bullshit on the face of it. As a result he, or more likely his dad, will have some rather large bills to pay.

As to the timing, well, Ezra's work situation becomes more tenuous with each passing day.  There are already rumours of The Rebel's impending demise.  Staffers fighting over used tea bags and half eaten muffins, for example.  And remember that picture behind Ezra in the network's early videos?

I hear its sitting in a pawn shop on Queen East.

So Ezra needed the thing wrapped up quick. And the two gals who followed him were just moons of his, swept up in his death spiral towards the black hole of debt and humiliation, and now crashing and burning in the wake of his smokey demise.

But is this really Ezra's final failure?  Well, possible downward moves in his journalistic career are limited by the fact that, at The Rebel, he is  pounding his head on the bottom.  But no fear: other lawsuits are still due to be settled!  And when Ezra goes to court, he loses.

Ezra Manouvers

From Joe Brean's twitter feed, the rumours are confirmed:

O yea, O yea, O yea, court is in session. First up, motion to adjourn. At this rate, we'll hear opening statements next year.
— Joseph Brean (@JosephBrean) January 6, 2014

Ezra Levant has been trying to get a new lawyer since October. Christopher Ashby, his lawyer of record, is beside him. No explanation.
— Joseph Brean (@JosephBrean) January 6, 2014

Khurrum Awan opposes the adjournment. Judge says he has "significant justification" to throw away his costs.
— Joseph Brean (@JosephBrean) January 6, 2014

Brian Shiller says his client Mr. Awan "vigorously opposes" adjournment. "We were ready to go [last fall]," he said. Ready again now.
— Joseph Brean (@JosephBrean) January 6, 2014

Same nonsense Ezra tried in Vigna v. Levant.  Lets hope the judge doesn't allow it.

Update: Crap, he did!  But he seems to dinged The Ez for some dough:

Levant trial adjourned to March 3. Cost him a few bucks. Iain MacKinnon, known for media work in the Rob Ford follies, is his new counsel.
— Joseph Brean (@JosephBrean) January 6, 2014

More On Free Speech Warrior Ezra Levant Oppressing People's Free Speechiness (IE. Suing Them For Defamation, Or Threatening To)

Following up on this, stuff from about ten years ago.  Shit our hero has been willing to sue people for defamation! (Bolding is mine)

After Harper became Canadian Alliance leader that year, he participated, along with current Conservative election chair John Reynolds, in a very public campaign to pressure the nominated candidate in the riding, Ezra Levant, to step aside so he could run for a seat in an upcoming by-election.

At the time Reynolds said that the party would assist with any debts [Levant] may have had which media reports claimed were at least $120,000. (Calgary Herald, March 22, 2003, National Post, April 8, 2002)

The incident deeply divided party members in Harper's riding association resulting in Levant and three other Calgary party members filing a $5.8-million lawsuit against other party members and executives over alleged defamation related to the nomination battle.  (Calgary Herald, November 22, 2003)

There's more on the same set of incidents (I think) from this old FreeD post from back in 2003.  I won't describe the contents through the link, just point to them, because doing more might itself count as defamatory these days.

And more shit from WK's old site.  Ezra tried to sue Chuck Strahl?

PS.  Thanks to Holly Stick in the comments!