The facebook page Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources. But the posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The New York Times.
One of its posts this month said Prime Minister Mark Carney had suspended his campaign because of “connections with China” and cited a major Canadian news outlet, Global News, as its source. But the Global News article did not actually mention any connections to China.
Canada Proud describes itself as a “grass-roots group of Canadians” concerned about the country’s direction. The page is owned by Mobilize Media Group, a Toronto public affairs firm.
The company has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting Canadian voters
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html
At one point in time, when I went searching for “Canada patriotic image”, this is what I got:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/cd00e294-27ec-41b5-8004-03cc1ef78d59.jpeg
I don’t feel like Canada is the place most-prone to nationalism in the world.
EDIT: According to Tineye, the image goes back at least to 2013. I was curious; the artist, Jessica Borutski, apparently has, in the intervening years, moved from Canada to the US to work for Nickelodeon.
https://www.instagram.com/jessicaborutski/?hl=en
And yet somehow they’ve got American flag hung pickup truck douchebag Trumpies. It’s baffling.