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This paper discusses the role that the right's presence on the internet has played in this ideology's rise to popularity and its successful attempts at winning elections. It highlights the main messages that specialized websites and the public chat groups available over Twitter, Facebook and Instagram spread around selected issues, such as climate change, immigration, gay rights, and race in Canada; in an attempt to determine the direction that they want to give to public debate on those matters. Based on the case study of the spring 2019 provincial elections in Alberta, Canada, I test the hypothesis that the frequency and radical features of messaging distributed by right-wing websites and chat groups in social media increase around election times, as an expression of a sustained and successful effort at influencing the vote along their ideological direction.

Right-wing think tanks and their transnational networks in Latin America are barely known, and scarcely documented.1 Close scholarly investigation into their activities, structure, connections, impacts, and ideology is non-existent. This article aims at contributing to fill this gap, by adding insights into the most prominent organizations and networks based in Mexico. This preliminary information is useful to gauge more accurately the scope of the organizations and networks, and their ability to influence policy and the political process.

This essay presents an overview of the most relevant literature by scholars, journalists or politicians on the political right in English-speaking Canada, both historically and today. It attempts to highlight what makes the Canadian right unique, while demonstrating its importance to make sense of this country's current political realities. ; Este ensayo ofrece un panorama de la literatura más relevante sobre la derecha canadiense de habla inglesa —tanto pasada como contemporánea— producida por académicos, periodistas y políticos. Intenta rescatar la especificidad de la derecha canadiense y demostrar su importancia para comprender la realidad política contemporánea de ese país.

En Canadá, la manera en que se dividen las competencias entre los gobiernos provinciales y federal es estructuralmente conflictiva. Las instituciones de ese país favorecen dicho conflicto, y alimentan las tendencias centrífugas del poder. Por ello, Canadá se ha convertido en el sistema federal en el que las unidades subnacionales tienen más poder que en ningún otro Estado del mundo. Aun así, las provincias no cesan de reclamar más facultades y beneficios del gobierno federal. La actual conformación del Parlamento federal y la elección de un partido con un claro programa independentista al gobierno de Quebec son desafíos de talla que la federación canadiense deberá enfrentar a corto plazo.