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'Despicable': NDP calls on Smith to cancel PragerU appearance with Ben Shapiro (www.ctvnews.ca)
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing calls to cancel a speaking appearance with conservative media personality Ben Shapiro at an upcoming fundraiser for Florida-based PragerU.

A conservative content company, it describes itself as an educational media platform devoted to furthering U.S. values. Its content, approved for use in schools by several states, has been criticized for downplaying the harms of slavery and climate change and distorting historic events.

Shapiro, co-founder of conservative media company The Daily Wire and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, has made past homophobic and transphobic comments. More recently, he’s made social media posts about Canada becoming the 51st state of the U.S.

“When we take Canada, you will be expelled to Panama to work the canal,” Shapiro posted on X in response to a post made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in January.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 81 points 3 days ago

Smith also appeared on a Breitbart News radio show over the weekend.

So this person is already trash.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 days ago

100% she's been filled with hate from the start. She was basically elected on an anti-LGBTQ and antivax platform.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 47 points 3 days ago

Oh, 100%.

Prior to being the head of the current conservative party, she was the head of the now defunct, even farther right Wildrose party. She's a textbook example of a regressionist.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

It's important to read the resumes of those you hire. In Smith's case, she went from university to agitprop then to radio shock jock before politics.

In other words, all she's ever done is blahblahblah persuasion and rhetoric. She's never been employed making anything other than misinformation and wealth for the wealthy.

She's a trained professional... liar.

Not surprisingly, another Albertan great deceptor with an empty resume runs the national rich-get-richer party.

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