Shared from Copilot: MAGA is turning against Laura Loomer : r/politics
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Fascism in CanadaFar-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and two of his predecessors all follow Lauren Chen, who was just linked to a Russian influence operation.
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Clearly Biased PP/Convoy References cuz Fascism#canada#russia#conservatism#propaganda & disinformation
Far-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada
Canadian videos produced by far-right media outlet at centre of a US Department of Justice indictment were viewed half a million times
Far-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada : r/onguardforthee
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Misrepresenting the data on crime - The John Howard Society of Canada
Actually reading the report on crime rates in Canada undermines the dominant media narrative of a 'crime wave'.
Top ABC, Harper & Attacks on the Public (aka *YOU*)#misinformation#canada#crime#conservatism#propaganda & disinformationCanada Inflation Rate
Inflation Rate in Canada decreased to 2.50 percent in July from 2.70 percent in June of 2024. This page provides - Canada Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
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Corporate lobbyists are flocking to Pierre Poilievre’s cash-for-access fundraisers ⋆ The Breach
More than a hundred active or recent corporate lobbyists have attended the Conservative Party’s cash-for-access fundraisers since Pierre Poilievre became leader
How Canada's inflation compares with other G20 nations
World leaders of the G20 concluded a summit in Indonesia at a time when nearly all member nations are battling high inflation. While Canada's has flattened, a CTVNews.ca analysis looks at how we compare with other nations, some of which continue to experience skyrocketing inflation.
Big Real Estate Executives Among Top Donors to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Conservative Party’s donor list includes names of real estate investors and developers that are buying up affordable housing across Canada
Man refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
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Carney & LiberalsMan refuses to shake hands with Justin Trudeau and rants that his neighbour is 'lazy' and 'lives the same life I do.' Trudeau responds, 'You know what, most Canadians try to stick up for each other. And that’s what we’re going to keep doing.'
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Canada is the No. 1 Country in the World, According to the 2021 Best Countries Report - News
The sixth annual Best Countries report reveals the importance of social justice as a global ambition, the unexpected societal byproduct of the COVID-19 crisis and the influence of conspiracy theories. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13, 2021—For the first time, Canada takes the top spot overall in the 2021 Best Countries Report,…Read More
Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History - Katherine Fierlbeck - Google Books
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ideas in Canada, we can better understand why Canada takes the shape that it does. In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that have been most influential to Canada's development: the United Kingdom and the United States. The first section looks specifically at the nature of toryism, constitutional liberalism, and market liberalism. Then she examines the evolution of social justice in Canada. Does the country have, as J.S. Woodsworth hoped, a definitive "third way." The final section focuses upon debates over cultural identity and minority rights. Contemporary political discussions in Canada are very much based upon the expressions of French-Canadian nationalism that have existed as long as, and perhaps even longer than, the country itself. How have these ideas influenced current thinking about culture and accommodation?The experiences characterized by Canadian political thought also provide insight and ideas for nations around the world as their citizens struggle with similar questions. The political dynamics of the present are a product of how Canadians have viewed their country, or a vision of their country, in the past. These ideas of Canada, in history and in myth, provide a way of thinking about politics that may provoke and inspire Canadians and others to reflect upon their future.
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.
The "Convoy"
Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave - The New York Times
Minority voters have a large political voice, immigration is seen as positive and multicultural identities are encouraged.
Outsiders might assume this is because Canada is simply more liberal, but they would be wrong. Rather, Canada has resisted the populist wave through a set of strategic decisions, powerful institutional incentives, strong minority coalitions and idiosyncratic circumstances.
In other Western countries, right-wing populism has emerged as a politics of us-versus-them. It pits members of white majorities against immigrants and minorities, driven by a sense that cohesive national identities are under threat. In France, for instance, it is common to hear that immigration dilutes French identity, and that allowing minority groups to keep their own cultures erodes vital elements of Frenchness.
Identity works differently in Canada. Both whites and nonwhites see Canadian identity as something that not only can accommodate outsiders, but is enhanced by the inclusion of many different kinds of people.
Canada is a mosaic rather than a melting pot, several people told me — a place that celebrates different backgrounds rather than demanding assimilation.
Jason Kenney, then a Conservative member of Parliament, convinced Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the party should court immigrants, who — thanks to Mr. Trudeau’s efforts — had long backed the Liberal Party.
“I said the only way we’d ever build a governing coalition was with the support of new Canadians, given changing demography,” Mr. Kenney said.
The result is a broad political consensus around immigrants’ place in Canada’s national identity.
That creates a virtuous cycle. All parties rely on and compete for minority voters, so none has an incentive to cater to anti-immigrant backlash. That, in turn, keeps anti-immigrant sentiment from becoming a point of political conflict, which makes it less important to voters.
In Britain, among white voters who say they want less immigration, about 40 percent also say that limiting immigration is the most important issue to them. In the United States, that figure is about 20 percent. In Canada, according to a 2011 study, it was only 0.34 percent.
In Canada, because all parties compete for all ethnic blocs, minorities do not tend to polarize into just one party. That leaves little incentive for tribalism, even as minority groups feel empowered to champion their ethnic or religious identity.
But because Canadian politics accounts for diversity without polarizing across ethnic or religious lines, it is more resilient. Everyone, including whites, becomes less likely to see politics as a game of us versus them.
Rapid changes in demographics tend to spur anti-immigrant sentiment within the dominant group, experts say, bolstering far-right politicians who promise harsh tactics against outsiders.
But although Canada’s high immigration rates have transformed the country in just a few decades, the public has mostly been calm and accepting.
One reason may be Canada’s unusual immigration policies. A sponsorship system, in which Canadian families host newcomers, allows communities to feel they are a part of the country’s refugee resettlement program.
And a points system, which favors migrants who are thought to contribute economically, makes immigration feel like something that benefits everyone.
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Shared from Bing: How the alt-right laid siege to Pickering city council
Councillor Lisa Robinson’s supporters have disrupted Pickering city council, sidelining the business of local government with threats and outbursts from the gallery.
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Poilievre Pulverized: Viral Clip Shows Conservative Leader Eviscerated at First Nations Conference Before Literally Running Out A Back Door With Security. LOLZ - Crier Media
Pierre Poilievre faces intense criticism: Viral clip shows Conservative leader shit his pants amidst tough questions from Indigenous leaders.
Pierre Poilievre and the Politics of Intimidation | The Tyee
The Conservatives are emboldening violent extremists and undermining democracy.
Top ABC, Harper & Attacks on the Public (aka *YOU*)#far/alt right#canada#woke/crt/dei bs aka racism#conservatismHow does Doug Ford live with himself?
Extremist Diagolon group to begin so-called Road Rage Terror Tour in Ottawa
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[Erin O'Toole] My post congratulating the new CDS who also happens to also be the first woman to become a 4 leaf General led to a torrent of toxic and stupid posts and it gives us a small glimpse of what women have to put up with online. A few elements really bothered me.
Is Canada finally taking far-right extremism seriously? Latest arrests are a positive sign
Historically, Canadian police have disproportionately targeted Muslim communities in counter-terrorism efforts, while far-right extremists received comparatively scant scrutiny. Is that changing?
Canada's Justin Trudeau Introduced Law To Imprison Anyone Who Ever Posted Hate Speech? | Snopes.com
Canada's proposed Online Arms Act was described as "Orwellian" by some social media users.
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Roughly equal numbers of readers have positive or negative views of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in an online poll this month. The details are revealing
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.