The police have arrived to escort @TheCounterSgnl editor in chief @TheRealKeean from the premises. I suspect the press conference will begin momentarily, now about an hour delayed.
BREAKING: The Calgary Police Service has pulled me out of an NDP press conference. Ironically, I was going to ask about NDP candidates trying to defund the police. They sure do call them fast when they are scared of simple questions though!
In response to a question from an MSM reporter who asks if the delay could have been handled better, Notley calls @TheRealKeean a “protester” with “clear association with white supremacy views.” “So the answer is no,” she says. “No.”
A protester. And Notley's people called another reporter from the Western Standard a hate criminal. What they really mean is anyone who criticizes them. Imagine if Stephen Harper or Jason Kenney had done this. The CBC would be at Defcon 1.
Rachel Notley is a communist. This behavior is unCanadian, abusive, and it should make every journalist in this room sick. Unfortunately, they are on the government payroll so they do nothing.
Now that I think about it, this isn't the first time the NDP called the police on me. Last election, I exposed NDP candidate Anne McGrath as a communist, and she didn't like that. She called the police, and lost her election bid by a couple votes.
I remember trying to post this to KiA & we learned Reddit had the name "Anne McGrath" blocked. They claimed it was for another Anne McGrath but who knows...
Armed police escorting a journalist out of an NDP press conference. Self-respecting, independent journalists would have walked out of the press conference in solidarity, or asked only about this, or asked his question. But no. I don't call it the Media Party for nothing.
She might not like him, but Keean Bexte is a journalist. It's possible for journalists to be protesters -- David Akin once did that to Pierre Poilievre. But Bexte was standing quietly and told the NDP in advance what his question would be. Notley has reporters arrested.
This isn't a test of Rachel Notley. Everyone already knows she's an authoritarian censor. This is a test of Alberta's journalists. Will they abide Notley's authoritarianism? Will they participate in a press scrum where only NDP allies are permitted? I have low expectations.
Rebel News and Western Standard are routinely excluded from Notley's press conferences. The regime media don't object -- in fact, they cheer it on.
@nationalpost's @tylerrdawson chaired the press gallery when they banned us from the Legislature, with no explanation.
OTHER VIDEO: https://twitter.com/Emmanuel_Rach/status/1658208130692685825
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1658206807809228800
https://twitter.com/KatrinaPanova/status/1658212991656140800
https://twitter.com/Emmanuel_Rach/status/1658217121275596801
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1658217232822837287
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1658242802520842241
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1658233201419255808
I remember trying to post this to KiA & we learned Reddit had the name "Anne McGrath" blocked. They claimed it was for another Anne McGrath but who knows...
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1658216876608987154
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1658238481615953920
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1658205389244997644
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1658206096668893186