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Someone in the Kremlin really thought that they should give 400 000 USD every month for shit like this.

NEW: The far-right media outlet linked in US federal indictment to a secret Russian influence campaign produced 50+ videos focused on Canada We reviewed the videos before they were taken down and found they were viewed half-a-million times pressprogress.ca/far-right-medi… #cdnpoli

Remember when Poilievre and his federal Conservatives held up Canadian aid to Ukraine? It was a head scratcher at the time, but after today’s revelations about Russia interference in western democracies, it’s starting to make more sense.

National Security and Defence Documents Dataset (1987-2024) consists of 575 national security and defence documents from 113 countries, including defence white papers. A jolly good resource database for both academia and practitioners alike. 👍🏼👇🏼 datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8…

The social media accounts of two Canada's most vocal far-right pundits have fallen unusually silent after U.S. officials accused them of being collaborators of a covert Russian propaganda campaign. cbc.ca/news/investiga… .

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Meet the right-wing Canadian influencers accused of collaborating with an alleged Russian propaganda scheme | CBC News cbc.ca/news/investiga…

2.5 million Ontarians: “I need a family doctor” Doug Ford : “ Hold my beer” #holdmybeer

One day after the DOJ accused Tenet Media of receiving $10 million in covert funding, a "reporter" for the company announced that Tenet "has ended." Tenet's founder Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan still haven't commented on any of this. Normal! motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Excellent report how Russia is using Canadian extreme right activists to disrupt democracy in both the United States and Canada. I sincerely hope we take these efforts by a malign foreign power to brainwash Canadians seriously. cbc.ca/news/investiga…

"If you think naively that the Russians don't care as much about influencing Canadian thought, penetrating the Cdn government at all levels-I'm here to tell you they care deeply about shaping how you think, how you vote and sowing chaos and discord" Fadden, former CSIS director

I've been hearing this for a decade. Evidence? 🤷‍♂️

Ezra Levant furious to discover he could have been getting money from Russia this whole time thebeaverton.com/2024/09/ezra-l…

If this sounds familiar, it should, it's been in the pipeline for a while. "In January 2021, following extensive studies and consultations, DND/CAF began a process to procure and implement a Cellular Airborne Sensor for Search and Rescue (CASSAR) system." canada.ca/en/department-…

NEW: Right-wing influencers working for Tenet Media—a company the DOJ says was financed by a state-backed Russian news—showed interest in a specific set of topics, a WIRED analysis shows. This includes Elon Musk and supposed racism against white people. wired.com/story/influenc…

News: Ontario has recorded its first domestically-acquired case of human rabies since 1967. The person who fell ill is a resident of Brantford-Brant and is suspected to have acquired it from direct contact with a bat.

Water Filtration xkcd.com/2982