I've been holding off on this but I thought I would provide some commentary on an incident that occurred during the Emergency Act inquiry (POEC) early this past week. First though, I'm going to talk about Ray Epps and why Canadian right-wing extremists and conspiracy believers are talking about him now:
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Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: November 2019 Bits and Bites: Defamation Suits, Vanderweide, CNP, and Endangering Lives
Our research into Canadian members of Iron March based on the leaked forum information is ongoing. Suffice it to say we’ve been finding some especially interesting individuals who will be profiled here on the blog in time. However November has been an especially eventful month so I thought I’d do
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Initial Reaction of Far-Right to Election: Meltdown
Since 2015, the far-right in Canada focused on a few key issues including opposing immigration, embracing Islamophobia, perpetuating anti-Globalist conspiracy theories that were both subtlety and overtly anti-Semitic, and promoting racist canards about their fellow Canadians. At the core of many of these groups’ and individuals’ rage — Nouns of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: September 2019 Bits and Bites: CNP and PPC Edition
It has now over a week since ARC published the list of Canadian Nationalist Party members which include such individuals as neo-Nazi Paul Fromm, neo-Nazi and former Moose Jaw Soldiers of Odin chapter leader Jody Issel, and Islamophobe and bigot Kevin Johnston. Due to the major national story that broke
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Canadians Patriot Party Update: Funds Given to Organization Run by Threeper
In late August, Jayme Knyx and Jay Riedel hosted the Canadians’ Patriot Party in Estevan, SK. Inevitably, it was attended by multiple hate groups, such as C3, Northern Guard, PEGIDA, Proud Boys, and of course, Yellow Vests Canada. It caused quite a stir, since we alerted VETS Canada – a
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Far Right Infighting Part ∞ + 2: Chris Vanderweide Bites A Hand That Fed Him
Alternate title? “Everyone I Don’t Like is a Libtard Antifa!” For the remainder of his life, Chris Vanderweide will be known as the guy who sucker punched people attending a Pride event in Hamilton and wildly swinging a helmet while wearing what looked to be ill-fitting paint ball gear. This was
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Skyler François: A Case Study in Extremist Radicalization
I think this is going to end up being a different article than readers might be used to. So before I start I’m going to include some links. If you think someone you love is or is at risk of being radicalized by extremist propaganda or you yourself have fallen down
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Labour Day Weekend 2019 Bits and Bites: Yellow Vests, Proud Boys, PEGIDA, ID Canada
Racists apparently don’t take long weekends off, and neither do we. PEGIDA held their monthly hate-rally in Toronto, and it was decidedly quieter than usual. @VestsCanada damn 8 huh? Oooo. 1 more and you can field a softball team! pic.twitter.com/pBVstudPUS — Alex Oliveira (@OlivesXander) August 31, 2019 PEGIDA is reportedly
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: The Mess That Is Hamilton
The Canadian Yellow Vest members in the Hamilton area continue to hold their Saturday rallies and they’ve been as wacky as anything YVC has organized so far. On August 10th Yellow Vest and very troubled man Martin Brousseau drove his destined-for-the-scrap-heap bus onto the sidewalk towards counter protesters. Dubbed the
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Guest Article: The Canadian Far-Right an Eco’s Hallmarks of Fascism
I had been planning on writing an article for the blog detailing Umberto Eco's fourten hallmarks of fascism and even started gathering some relevant screenshots (some of which I have included). However last month I saw that Twitter user Seussterhoff had already posted a series of tweets providing an outline of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Hamilton, Halifax, and More on Pegida Rally in Toronto With Special Appearance by a Former Canadian Nazi Party Leader
ARC spent the weekend covering the Pegida rally in Toronto and counter-protest as well as the events that resulted afterward, however we neglected other important news of the day. In Hamilton, the Yellow Vesters continued to protest outside city hall as they’ve done since the winter. The extremists who attacked
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Ron Banerjee: "Let’s get into a big fight right inside the Eaton’s Centre." Attack After Pegida Rally Looks Pre-meditated
We’re still going over the events that occurred after yesterday’s Pegida rally. Ron Banerjee who was also in attendance (though we didn’t know it at the time) posted a grainy video of an attack inside a Toronto mall: We later learned that the mall was the Eaton’s Centre. Later in
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Violence After Pegida March: Northern Guard Attack Counter-Protester an Rick Boswick Admits to Assaulting People
Well, this didn’t take long: As counter-protesters were making sure the fascists left the downtown, this video shows two members of the Northern Guard assaulting one of them. ARC has heard of a number of instances of counter-protesters being isolated at attacked. One evidently ended up in the hospital. Rick
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Pegida Canada Rally In Toronto Vastly Outnumbered
Given the events in Hamilton, we expected that there would be a large contingent of the far-right attending the Pegida rally in Toronto today. We also expected a much larger group of counter-protesters who would come out to oppose them. We were half right: Good afternoon from the location of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Rick Boswick and Derek Storie: More Fallout From Attack on LGBTQ Community By Far-Right
The days since Christian Taliban members, Yellow Vesters (as represented by Rick Boswick and Derek Storie among others), Canadian Nationalist Party members, and a Wolves of Odin have been interesting in that it tells us a great deal about the mindset and character of the people who attacked LGTBQ members
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Canadian Nationalist Party: Antisemites and Racists
If one has been paying attention, one would note that members of the Canadian Nationalist Party have become ubiquitous at far right events. If there is a Yellow Vests, Pegida, or (as occurred this past Sunday) anti-LGBTQ event, it is almost guaranteed that members and supporters of the CNP will
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Hamilton Yellow Vests Rally Draws Numerous Hate and Patriot Groups
On June 7, 2019 a number of hate and patriot groups participated in a Yellow Vests Canada rally in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, including Soldiers of Odin, Wolves of Odin, Northern Guard, Canadian Nationalist Party, and Proud Boys. 1. We’re gathering what we can from #HamOnt today, but I wanted to
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Report Pegida/YVC Members Boswick & Storie’s GoFundMe
In light of PEGIDA Canada’s Jenny Hill’s failed attempt to crowdfund for her $11,000 judgment, we thought it prudent to bring to the public’s attention another PEGIDA related GoFundMe that deserves similar attention and action. Yellow Vests Canada members, PEGIDA supporters, general hatemongers, and self-professed “Domestic War Reporters” Rick Boswick and Derek
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Hate Groups At Toronto Pegida Rally Burn Quran and Set Off Smoke Bombs
Sooooo, remember when these people claimed to be opposed to Islamic extremism, but not Muslims? No one believed that then nor does anyone believe it now: Here’s Andre Ch (Cdn Nationalist Party) Derek Storie/Rick Boswick (Yellow Vest), and members of Wolves of Odin, Proud Boys, and other Cdn Nationalist Party
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Far Right Rallies and Counter-Rallies: Montreal and Toronto
I’ll be updating this as more information comes out. Two rallies are ongoing. In Montreal members of La Meute and other hate groups are rallying in support of the illiberal policies of the current Quebec government targeting religious minorities. In Toronto Pegida Canada is trying to march. In Montreal Jon
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