Up here in Ontario, Canada there is a Provincial election. The major parties are the left wing NDP, the centrist Liberals (although they are more left under the current leader) and the right wing Progressive Conservatives.
The previously election in 2011 resulted on a minority Liberal government, which means they required support from one of the two other parties to stay in power. On May 1st the Liberals released their 2014 budget and neither the NDP or Conservatives would support it, triggering an automatic election.
Currently the polls are unclear whether the Liberals or Conservatives are leading, but a another minority government is likely. Even if the Conservatives get the most seats the Liberals and NDP can still work together and form the government instead.
Almost all online ads I have seen have been from the Conservatives, including many here at Daily Kos. Obviously if you're IP address isn't from Ontario you won't see any.
Most of the ads where for their Million Jobs Plan, the centre piece of their election strategy. It is a Republican inspired plan of lower corporate taxes, smaller government and reduced regulation. The problem appeared when that they released reports justifying their plan to the media. Besides the fact they include 500,000 jobs that would have been created without the plan and besides the debatable quality of the reports, most of which where from Benjamin Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute, it was discovered they the reports didn't actually say 500,000 more jobs would be created. They got 500,000 by totaling up the cumulative totals of jobs created in each year. Essentially they where counting person-years of work as "jobs". The actual jobs created was about one eighth their claim.
In fact if you take out the 500,000 jobs not actually created by the plan, you only get 62,500 jobs. If you subtract the 100,000 of government job reductions they say they will make you get a total of -37,500 jobs under their plans.
Since their claim to have a Million Job Plan is clearly false, I started complaining to the online ad companies. I submitted a complaint to Google Ads on May 29th. I received no correspondence (they warned me I wouldn't), but the next day the Million Job Plan Google Ads had been replaced with Conservative "Say No to Higher Hydro" ads. I also complained to AdRoll, the other company which serves Conservative ads on Daily Kos. After some back and forth they are still showing the ads. They said "position they [the Progressive Conservative Party] are taking with their ads does meet that requirement of being a verifiable claim." and "the way their site content is positioned is in line with our's and our partner ad networks' policies."
I don't really mind if the ads continue to be shown on Daily Kos. I'm happy to see a few cents flow from the Conservatives to Daily Kos when I click on them once in a while. Rejecting a political ad is and should always be a very controversial decision because of the free speech issues it raises.
One thing to keep in mind is that campaign finance isn't nearly a big a problem as it is in the United States. Contributions by corporations and individuals are limited and campaign spending is capped. Third party advertizing is also regulated. However that hasn't prevented Tea-Party-like blatantly-pro-business ideas from appearing in our politics.