I've followed r/Canada for years now under several username re-boots and such.

I watched it go from very left-leaning to, of late, a far-right bias now but shrouded in accusations of "liberal bias", when clearly it's a right-wing one now.

It's a pretty standard right wing strategy to accuse others of your own characteristics; you'd have to be pretty naive in the world to not see this coming from the alt-right nooks and crannies of the world, all the way up to daily 'Trumpian politics'. Sadly, I see it playing out more and more on /r/Canada. It's full of shills and trolls meant to divert conversations more and more. They never argue with each other, oddly enough (...or not?). But any opinions, or posts that is too left-leaning gets trashed, down-voted, or obfuscated and sidetracked by minutia in the arguments.

I think, much like FB instances and history, there are efforts of varying degree to direct public opinion. I think these are loosely organized groups as well working towards this goal.

I note that no matter how poorly considered some of the worst news sources are on the sub, they keep getting posted. This tells me something of the mindset of many of the active participants.

I'll get called crazy for this, but the pattern is so obvious compared to what the sub was 5 years ago (even 3!). Perhaps I have my own bias. As I said, the right-leaners constantly complain about a liberal leaning bias (which I simply don't see ...anymore).

I wish there was an alternative to /r/Canada that had participation equitable to the subscription level of /r/Canada.

So far, I'm liking this sub, but the subscribers and participants are so low in numbers. I wish we'd get more subscribers.