Foreign money funding ‘extremism’ in Canada
This is bad form by the Guardian.<p>The truckers are very much grass roots and not inherently political.<p>They are effectively &#x27;working class&#x27; and leaderless, wary of years of suppressive measures (as we all are). Definitely &#x27;vaxx misinformed&#x27; (a quick purview of their TikTok&#x27;s reveals this), and definitely a bit crude and noisy with the horns ...<p>... but they are the furthest thing from &#x27;extremist&#x27;.<p>MSNBC today also characterised the protests with terminology such as &#x27;far right wing&#x27; trying to put it in American scare mongering tactics of those perennial &#x27;far right nebulous forces&#x27;. While there may actually be such a thing in the US (that MSNBC no doubt also misrepresents), it&#x27;s not remotely the case in Canada in general and certainly not the protestors who really are &#x27;just a bunch of angry people&#x27;.<p>It&#x27;s entirely understandable that leaders everywhere are wary of populist uprisings getting out of hand, especially at a time when we are not quite sure if we are done with the pandemic, and another wave may definitely require us to apply at least some measures, but this is ridiculous.<p>It&#x27;s nauseating to have to read every, single, news source with such a hefty dose of cynicism, as if to be on guard for the constant editorial aggrandizations.<p>It&#x27;s no wonder a lot of regular people are thumbing their noses at &#x27;The Media&#x27; because after all, whatever issue they read about seems to be tinged in a manner that even regular people seem to be able to detect.<p>A better title would have been &#x27;Foreign money fuelling protests in Canada&#x27;. That would have been perfectly reasonable and accurate.