VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A crowd of 1,000 unmasked people stood shoulder-to-shoulder chanting in downtown Vancouver Saturday for the “B.C. Freedom Mega Rally” — an event one Vancouver councillor describes as “incredibly reckless.”
The estimate of the crowd size comes from the Vancouver Police Department, which reported “no major incidents.”
WINNIPEG: WFPS faces another allegation of racism in the ranks
By: Ryan Thorpe | 10/19/2020
"A city paramedic has accused two of his firefighter colleagues of refusing to treat an Indigenous woman who’d been stabbed in the throat — an incident described by the complainant as "racially motivated."
From Vice to virulence: the noxious Canadian export in his own words and deeds. On video, too.
As Donald Trump gives Americans reason to fear that his loss in the November election will trigger mayhem propagated by racist thugs, a key catalyst for such concerns is a Canadian: Gavin McInnes.
A Canadian web publication called The Post Millennial is gaining traction among far-right American audiences. It has all the dressings of a standard news website—a sleek interface, a masthead, a prominently displayed code of ethics—but the content, following themes popular among far-right audiences, strays far from what any standard news site would produce.
In July, a heavily armed military reservist from Manitoba who had posted memes on Instagram about the QAnon conspiracy rammed his truck through the gates of Rideau Hall. Minutes away from Parliament Hill, Rideau Hall is the official residence of Canada’s Governor General, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s temporary residence is on its grounds.
After surviving far right violence in Charlottesville, Emily Gorcenski has tracked the Proud Boys and other extremist groups
Emily Gorcenski is an American data scientist and anti-fascist researcher who now resides in Germany. Photograph: Marzena Skubatz/The Guardian
Across the road from the prime minister's office, in a park owned by the federal government, sits a protest camp filled with people who want to arrest Justin Trudeau and throw him in jail.
On Canada Day, a fringe protest group calling itself the Canadian Revolution set up a tent village in a patch of greenspace adjacent to the National War Memorial. The camp has become a base for Canadian Revolution members who roam the area around Parliament Hill accosting politicians and journalists.
Professor says CSIS sees Indigenous movements as challenging Canadian sovereignty
Canada's spy agency has refused to release internal records on Indigenous-led actions in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs by using an exemption under the access to information law normally reserved for information related to gathering intelligence to detect or suppress terrorism.
They may appear to make strange bedfellows, but experts say they share some fundamental values
Jonathan Montpetit · CBC News
The main event at a demonstration protesting COVID-19 restrictions last weekend north of Montreal was a speech by Steeve L'Artiss Charland, one-time leader of a far-right group that has since faded from view.
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