One of my cousin's teachers instructs her students to vandalize Wikipedia and claims everything in it is false, so while at first this shocked me, after I thought about it a bit, didn't strike me as odd at all.

In my province, there was a party a number of years ago called the Social Credit Party. They were considered right wing. To put in short what rtb61 said, the notions of what is Right and Left in politics differs with what is considered the middle ground in the given city/state/country.