2021 November 26

Chak v. Levant, 2021 ABQB 946

The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench awarded the plaintiff $40,000 general damages and $20,000 aggravated damages over defamatory statements on a live cable broadcast of “The Source with Ezra Levant” on February 25, 2014 which reached a relatively limited audience of several thousand people. The Court found that the “extent and dissemination of the broadcast on the internet was limited.”