(LifeSiteNews) – A federally funded activist group is hiring a journalist to monitor what it calls “far-right spaces,” raising concerns about taxpayer money supporting leftist partisan activism.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) posted the full-time position on LinkedIn, offering $60,000 a year, benefits, and three weeks of vacation. More than 100 applicants had applied as of this week.
The posting describes the role’s primary responsibility as “monitoring” supposedly far-right content and requires adherence to the Canadian Association of Journalists’ ethics code, which promotes diversity and “gender identity” ideology.
CAHN defines the “far-right” using research by leftist academics Barbara Perry and Cas Mudde. The group says its monitoring priorities include Christian nationalism, opposition to “2SLGBTQ+” causes, so-called “anti-gender” movements, and male supremacist activism.
Since 2020, CAHN has received three federal grants totaling $908,400. Those include $268,400 through the Anti-Racism Action Program to counter “hate groups,” $440,000 under the Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program, and $200,000 from Public Safety Canada’s Community Resilience Fund for studies on the “far-right landscape.” The government has described the most recent funding as support for developing an “ethical framework” for research into “far right organizing in Canada.”
CAHN also calls for voluntary monitoring and even infiltration of “hate groups.”
The organization frames the journalist role as emotionally demanding. “It takes a special temperament to voluntarily immerse yourself in some of the most hateful content imaginable,” the posting states, urging applicants to consider whether they can sustain the work. CAHN has previously expressed anxiety about their researchers being won over by their opponents, indicating unease within the organization about the stability of its team’s convictions. Writing in its “40 Ways to Fight the Far Right” guide, CAHN said:
There have been situations where researchers became so affected by continuous exposure to the content that they adopted the ideas they were researching.
Critics say the group uses taxpayer funding to advance a narrow, leftist political agenda. Mark Milke, president of the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, called CAHN “disingenuous,” and said the network blurs the line between activism and journalism.
The public square needs all sorts of robust debate. What it doesn’t need is the 800-pound gorilla of government funding advocacy groups that plant fake news. I’ve written about the so-called “Anti-hate network” before and their taxpayer-subsidized disingenuous advocacy. Over…
— Mark Milke (@MilkeMark) September 23, 2025
CAHN placed LifeSiteNews on its “hate list” two months after reporting that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had donated to the group. In March 2025, CAHN attempted to cancel Campaign Life Coalition’s youth summit by accusing Rev. Calvin Robinson, one of its speakers, of supporting Nazism. In February 2024, CAHN had to retract another false claim about CLC’s involvement in a Canadian poll.
The group describes itself as an independent nonprofit. The position remains open on LinkedIn, with applications under review. Ottawa has not signaled any change to its funding approach, leaving CAHN likely to continue receiving federal support as it expands its monitoring efforts.
