A 41-year-old Ontario man received more attention than usual after his own recording shows him insulting and threatening a person on transit. While the media shares footage of the incident, Christopher Pretula’s role as part of a small but active racist, misogynistic and transphobic streaming community has gone largely unnoticed.
The numbers paint a worrying, but incomplete picture of hate crimes across Canada.
A group of young nationalists are proposing a “New Alliance” between left and right-wing Québec sovereigntists. Their leadership is almost exclusively formed by ex-members of a traditionalist Catholic group tied to antisemitism and racist conspiracy theories.
Ces jeunes nationalistes proposent une « Nouvelle Alliance » entre les souverainistes de droite et de gauche. Mais ses têtes dirigeantes semblent presque toutes tirées d’un groupe traditionaliste catholique lié à l’antisémitisme et au complotisme.
Tyler Blair said he was a "Nazbol Stalinist Canadian nationalist" at only 8 years old. At 13, he was logging into gaming platforms using the name "Tyler the Fascist Italian." By high school, he was engaging in overtly hateful online spaces - including the neo-fascist forum Iron March.
Protests in multiple cities across Canada saw supporters of the “Freedom Convoy” march in support of the Dutch movement against incoming agricultural environmental regulations.
The group, which denies an association with the convoy despite all its directors having close connections, is purchasing Saint Brigid’s church in Ottawa for nearly $6 million.
King will have to abide by a series of conditions, including staying off social media, until his trial.
Having sat in jail since his arrest at the end of February, Pat King is now facing additional charges while supporters report that he continues to struggle with medical issues in detention.
It is the flag Canada fought Adolf Hitler under and hangs proudly in Legions across Canada. However, some neo-Nazis have been waving it for years. To them, it is a symbol of a whiter Canada.
It is not shaping up to be another full-scale occupation, but Ottawa residents are bracing for the continued presence of far-right demonstrators, many if not most of whom were part of February’s convoy.
“I support the killing of the Muslims and the Sikhs in the republic of India because they deserve to die.”