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Canada Proud is a third party advertising group run by conservative operatives who worked for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party leadership campaign (pressprogress.ca)
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https://www.desmog.com/canada-proud/

"Canada Proud is part of a network of conservative groups and social media pages initially founded by conservative activist Jeff Ballingall"

Anyone who follows these pages on social medias should know. They are literally propaganda pages, and are loaded with disinformation and misinformation. And if you know people who uses social medias, they should know.

some exemples of sheer lies, source here https://www.desmog.com/canada-proud/

"In 2020, PressProgress reported that Canada Proud was falsely claiming that the federal government had banned Remembrance Day ceremonies.

In 2021, PressProgress reported of Canada Proud claimed that COVID-19 vaccines were being distributed according to “skin colour.”

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Orgs like Canada Proud are political operatives that work on behalf of parties. They are deliberately manipulative and misrepresent themselves as normal people, rather than political hacks. They game social media algorithms for klout, so they can skirt advertising rules. Worse, they post stuff that is demonstrably untrue to manipulate the public.

I'm not aware of unions deploying deception or trying to manipulate the public. Generally, their advertising is earnest and states exactly who they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clearly you’re not paying attention then or you unions just confirm your personal bias cause it’s pretty flagrant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Do you have some examples? The only union ads I've seen have been pretty dull. From what I've seen they're pretty clear about who paid for the ad and what they want. That's usually harder to tell Canada Proud and other party-affiliated media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Famous people are always found together, and their orbiters like Carney and Maxwell will be photographed together. It's important to remember that none of these rich people are "good" or "worthy of respect" until they PROVE OTHERWISE through their actions.

Until such time as they have proven otherwise, they're all pieces of shit unworthy of notice. We have enough evidence that this is the case because it always has been since the invention of famous pieces of shit.