Canadian Hells Angels Launches Advertising Campaign

Reported last week on CTV, a Canadian television network, the Ontario wing of the Hells Angels have put up a billboard on a Toronto highway as part of a public relations campaign to improve its image.

The motorcycle gang says they want to "right the wrongs" done to them by the "government-controlled" media.

The Angels' PR campaign comes amid an ongoing trial in Barrie, Ont., north of Toronto, in which the Crown is trying to prove that the Hells Angels are a criminal organization.

If prosecutors succeed, the gang's powers could be severely limited.

The billboard reads: "Still fighting for democracy and freedom" and directs people to their website. There, the gang claims that stories written about them in local and national papers "tell you everything-- but the truth."