Western Standard sticks it to Justin

To compare Justin Trudeau to Paris Hilton is unfair--to Paris Hilton.

-- Ezra Levant in The Western Standard

I've got to admit, that's a pretty funny line. Levant's disdain for Trudeau, pere et fils, is made quite evident, in the the column and in the cover story by writer Terry O'Neill in the current issue of the Standard, which is starting its fourth year of publication. Levant says the younger Trudeau

"has a startlingly spare resume, and a political philosophy that can only be described as trite. That he would be seen as a great hope for the Liberal party is a mark of how much that party has lost since his father's era."

Given the parlous history of its antecedents, Alberta Report and Western Report, there are many who would not have given very good odds of this magazine reaching its 3rd birthday. But here it is, and apparently prospering. Its Shotgun Blog is home to some of the rudest and most outrageous commenters anywhere. Its redesign has been slick and professional. And it resolutely pokes its finger in the eyes of everyone with whom it disagrees (and they are legion), particularly if the subjects are liberal, eastern or not sufficiently supportive of the Bushies.