Western Standard folds its print edition

The Western Standard magazine is ending its print edition. The announcement was made late on Friday by Ezra Levant, the Publisher. The newsmagazine, which was the inheritor of the mantle of Ted Byfield's late, unabashedly right-wing Alberta Report magazine, will continue online for now, or at least the magazine's popular Shotgun Blog. The Western Standard had a decidedly conservative cast and a