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8. Capitalism & Fascism in Action
The Poilievres’ Elite Circles
From the family of a former prime minister, to a group of tech bros acting a lot like Elon Musk, the Poilievres are lending an ear to Canada’s rich and powerful…
The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer
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Pierre Poilievre has spent two decades in politics, but Canadians still wonder what he believes
Even to the Conservative Leader’s friends, it can be difficult to tell where the persona ends and the core principles begin
Mark Carney is already betraying the voters who made him PM – Canadian Dimension
Carney has made it clearer than ever that he will be a conservative prime minister, governing on behalf of the rich and powerful to maintain their grip on Canadian society. Many thousands of progressive voters were clearly misled into thinking otherwise. This underscores that even as Poilievre lost the election, he won the ideological debate within the Liberal Party.
Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record | CAIDP-RPCDI
Over the past five years, exercise of the fundamental freedom of speech in Canada has been curbed and discouraged by a federal government increasingly intolerant of even the mildest criticism or dissent. Particularly affected have been organizations dependent on government funding which advocate for human rights and women’s equality. Their voices have been stifled, some completely silenced, by cuts to their budgets. Also financially throttled have been individuals and groups that speak out for reproductive rights, humanitarian immigration policies, and for changes in Canada’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
Under Attack: Canada’s Public Service Under Stephen Harper
Canadian politics scholar Dave Whitson explains how the Harper government's stubborn, ideological distaste for social science has undermined both the effectiveness and spirit of Canada's once robust public service.
Favourability of Pierre Poilievre decreases with education
A study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that favourability of Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre decreases the more educated one is.
Canadian Conservative YouTubers Claim They Were Offered Russian Money to Fund Their Videos. Their Strange Story Raises Serious Questions.
Experts warn that content creators and social media influencers could be prime targets for foreign actors looking to interfere in Canada’s democracy
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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The convoy is not peaceful: megalist
The Ottawa convoy is not peaceful: megalist I recommend reading this (if you are not in Ottawa) with this drone footage on full volume, to get the full, horrible, experience. This list contains exclusively incidents in Ottawa, and does not account for actions in other Canadian cities or at the b...
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times
The country’s political system has made it hard for fringe groups to gain influence. But a new cause, and fund-raising across borders, could begin to fuel Canadian populists.
B.J. Dichter, who was listed on the convoy’s official fund-raiser alongside Ms. Lich, has said that “political Islam” is “rotting away at our society like syphilis.”
The organizers are mostly fringe activists, rather than truck drivers, an overwhelming majority of whom are vaccinated.
Pat King, who is listed as an official contact for a regional group involved in the protest and has been a prominent champion of the protests online, has called Covid a “man-made bioweapon” and claimed that international financiers seek to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.” He has said of lockdowns, “The only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets.”
“You did have far-right populism — historically it was there — but it was isolated,” said Jeffrey S. Kopstein, a Canadian political scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
Canada’s populist right has lagged, Dr. Kopstein said, in part because the typical drivers of such movements — cultural polarization and white racial resentment — are less prevalent in the country than in other Western nations.
The country’s large and politically well-organized immigrant populations mean that both major parties see greater gain in courting immigrants than in cultivating white backlash.
As a result, Canada’s Conservative leaders have neither embraced nor been co-opted by the more extreme elements in their base to the same degree as some other right-wing parties.
Romana Didulo, a Canadian QAnon activist who has called for military executions of doctors who vaccinate children.
Canada’s populist right, though homegrown, is also heavily influenced by its far more numerous and better-resourced American counterparts. This helps provide the movement with energy and direction, though often in ways that hinder its influence in Canada, where Donald J. Trump is deeply unpopular.
But in years since, populist movements across the Western world have continued to rise and to coordinate across borders, helping to aid their Canadian counterparts’ slow but steady growth.
In a demonstration of this effect in action, a number of American political and media figures, including Mr. Trump, have forcefully endorsed or promoted the trucker protests. Americans are thought to have provided much of the $8 million raised online for the convoy.
And there is another change: Canada’s Conservative Party, after a difficult year, may be rethinking its longstanding practice of isolating conservative fringes.
Party officials recently ousted Erin O’Toole, the party leader, in part, they said, for insufficiently embracing the truck protests.
The new interim leader attracted controversy last year when a photo surfaced showing her wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Several Conservative lawmakers have since visited the protests in support. One was photographed alongside Mr. King, the white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, though later issued a statement condemning “any violent rhetoric.”
In some ways, support for the protests seems to reflect public opinion oscillations related more to the pandemic than to the far right.
Convoy money didn't come from 'foreign actors,' CSIS told officials during protest | CBC News
While millions of dollars in donations to support last winter's convoy protest came from outside Canada, the national spy agency told officials during the protest that the money did not appear to be coming from foreign states or "foreign actors."
Meet the extremists and social media influencers at the centre of the far right siege of ottawa
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'Wasn’t ever about the books': Republicans fuel chaos in AR over public library funding
As public libraries throughout Arkansas have come under scrutiny in recent years, some have faced uncertainty about the future of their funding sources, which determine what resources they offer their communities. The only library system that has seen a funding cut so far is the one in Craighead...
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Some Thoughts on Gender, Free Speech and the Ethics of Public Discourse
The following is an attempt to respond to the current controversy at the University of Toronto surrounding Professor Jordan Peterson’s remarks about gender pronouns and freedom of speech. My argument…
The Right Has Embraced the Cancel Culture It Claimed to Hate
NYU’s decision to withhold Logan Rozos’s degree for denouncing genocide in Gaza in his graduation speech is the latest example of right-wing cancel culture. After criticizing it on the Left, conservatives have learned to rally “woke” mobs of their own.
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
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Elon Musk IS Racist
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Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
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