In a year that saw rising hate crime stats, conspiracy-led movement marching through the streets, and the exposure of both modern and historic racism in Canada, it is important to remember that every person has the power to help. Here is how you can fight hate in your community in the new year.
To ultra-traditionalist Catholic Pierre Blanchette and his over 50,000 followers, anti-lockdown protesters, Protestant Christians, and even Pope Francis are pawns in a global Jewish conspiracy for world domination.
“You know those Proud Boys videos we all love to see where they just march down antifa and start cracking them? Don’t you want to be one of those guys? It’s your chance … It's a prime propaganda opportunity for us."
Calling the existence of white supremacists in the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces an “active counter-intelligence threat,” the country’s national security watchdog details uncertainty inside the military’s counterintelligence department.
In December of 2020, digital prophet and conspiracy spigot “Q” posted their last official message to an imageboard that would become the mysterious figure’s final home. A year later the mythology continues, self-perpetuating and spawning new figureheads primed to take the place of Q.
William Kay is a constable with the 42 division of Toronto Police. Like over 100 of the city’s officers, he says he has been placed on unpaid leave for not disclosing his vaccine status. The same day his leave began, Kay appeared on a live stream calling the vaccine a “bio-weapon” and told viewers to watch a documentary that overtly endorses the QAnon belief system.
Montreal-based Kathleen Moore Pageot has been translating, annotating, and disseminating the works of notorious Canadian fascist Adrien Arcand. Her translations, some of which are dedicated to Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, are held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
A total of 85.5% of racialized respondents said they feel the federal government should do more to prevent the spread of hateful and racist content.
Romana Didulo, a QAnon adherent who commands the attention of over 70,000 followers is now calling for armed believers on both sides of the border to cross over and begin “duck hunting season.”
As a civil case continues to take place attempting to hold the organizers of the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia accountable, we take a closer look at the Canadians who crossed the border to take part and those who cheered them on from home.
En route to an announcement for a child care program with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau’s vehicles were tailed by two individuals - including known white nationalist, Ryan Dean.
Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, has become a target of the province’s conspiracy movement’s ire.