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Ezra Levant sparred with a lawyer cross-examining him Tuesday as he took the stand to defend himself against defamation allegations.
Levant, head of Rebel Media, is facing a $200,000 lawsuit from his days with the now-defunct Sun News Network.
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The plaintiff in the case is Farhan Chak, a professor of political science at Qatar University who hails from Edmonton and was briefly a federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont.
A trial on the allegations began before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard Monday.
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A university professor and former Liberal Party candidate’s defamation lawsuit against pundit Ezra Levant has made it to court six years after it was filed.
On Monday, Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard heard opening arguments in the case of Farhan Chak, who launched a lawsuit against Levant in 2015 over comments Levant made on his Sun News Network program.
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According to Chak’s statement of claim, Levant alleged during his Feb. 25, 2014, broadcast that Chak was involved in a shooting at an Edmonton nightclub in 1993, when Chak was 19.