When we posted our article our article regarding the defection of the entire Saskatchewan Chapter of the Soldiers of Odin from the national and international movement, there was one part of the exchange between the former co-president of the Saskatchewan SoO and another individual who apparently also has some position
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Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin Collapsing? Entire Saskatchewan Chapter Breaks Away
We've been understandably focused on the tragedy in Quebec City — an event that we consider to be a terrorist attack in which a white nationalist murdered six Muslim men and wounded several others — however another interesting event occurred during the past 24 hours that will be of interest
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin Collapsing? Entire Saskatchewan Chapter Breaks Away
We've been understandably focused on the tragedy in Quebec City — an event that we consider to be a terrorist attack in which a white nationalist murdered six Muslim men and wounded several others — however another interesting event occurred during the past 24 hours that will be of interest
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Former SOO Moose Jaw President Jody Issel Throws Some Subtle Shade on National Leaders
That's right, former Soldiers of Odin Moose Jaw president. More on that later. It seems that our article on Jody Issel, who at the time of it's publication WAS the president of the Moose Jaw chapter of the Soldiers of Odin, resulted in quite of bit of interest: It also
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Former SOO Moose Jaw President Jody Issel Throws Some Subtle Shade on National Leaders
That's right, former Soldiers of Odin Moose Jaw president. More on that later. It seems that our article on Jody Issel, who at the time of it's publication WAS the president of the Moose Jaw chapter of the Soldiers of Odin, resulted in quite of bit of interest: It also
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jody Issel, Soldiers of Odin Moose Jaw President, Isn’t Even Trying Anymore
You know, if there's one positive thing about Trump's election is that the racists we've been covering here for years have become refreshingly honest about their views. Take this guy for example: Now this is admittedly an older photo of Jody Issel, but it does sort of capture a particular
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jody Issel, Soldiers of Odin Moose Jaw President, Isn’t Even Trying Anymore
You know, if there's one positive thing about Trump's election is that the racists we've been covering here for years have become refreshingly honest about their views. Take this guy for example: Now this is admittedly an older photo of Jody Issel, but it does sort of capture a particular
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Interview With Former Soldiers of Odin National Vice-President Dave Tregget
Last month we published two articles that dealt in part with the direction of the Canadian chapter of the Soldiers of Odin (see here and here). In the CBC article that we quoted in those articles, one of the foci was on the seeming split in the Quebec branch of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Interview With Former Soldiers of Odin National Vice-President Dave Tregget
Last month we published two articles that dealt in part with the direction of the Canadian chapter of the Soldiers of Odin (see here and here). In the CBC article that we quoted in those articles, one of the foci was on the seeming split in the Quebec branch of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin: Strike Three
In a recent article published here in which we briefly discussed the resignation of former national vice-president and Quebec president of the Soldiers of Odin, it was clear that there was (and likely has been for some time) a bit of an ideological struggle within the movement in Canada. One
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin: Strike Three
In a recent article published here in which we briefly discussed the resignation of former national vice-president and Quebec president of the Soldiers of Odin, it was clear that there was (and likely has been for some time) a bit of an ideological struggle within the movement in Canada. One
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: December 2016 Bits and Bites
We begin with a very brief update on Paulie who is so tickled pink (well, more pink than he usually is) about Trump's election that he isn't bothering to try to conceal his views in more "respectable" terms anymore: We're sure that Paulie will be leading the charge…. so long
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: December 2016 Bits and Bites
We begin with a very brief update on Paulie who is so tickled pink (well, more pink than he usually is) about Trump's election that he isn't bothering to try to conceal his views in more "respectable" terms anymore: We're sure that Paulie will be leading the charge…. so long
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin Canada: Falling Apart Already?
In one of the msm articles we linked to in a previous article, the following observation was made by at least one academic interviewed for the story: Several academic researchers contacted in Canada had either not heard of Soldiers of Odin, or studied its presence in Canada. One researcher, who
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Trump Train Derailed: Canadian Supporters Respond
You would have to be living under a rock to not be aware of what has become known as the "Trump Tape" in which Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about sexually assaulting women on a hot mic: In part as a result of the tape and, perhaps, his crude
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Anti-Immigration Rally Featuring Soldiers of Odin, PEGIDA, and Atalante Québec Yesterday
Yesterday an anti-immigrant rally took place in Quebec City featuring some groups we are well aware of and a few that are knew to us (yes, our Quebec intel still sucks): Anti-immigration groups are heard in QuebecPUBLISHED Saturday, October 15, 2016 13 H 38 About 75 protesters marched in Old
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin: "Denies…. Links to…. Biker Gangs"
It's been a while since we last wrote about the Soldiers of Odin. Since our last post about the group they have garnered a significant amount of media attention, though they aren't especially pleased with how the Canadian branch of the SOO has been characterized. For example, in a Global
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: A Look at the Soldiers of Odin in Hamilton
We were contacted by someone who created the following video highlighting the efforts of the Soldiers of Odin to set up a chapter in Hamilton, ON. Unfortunately we were unable embed the video, however the creator graciously allowed us to download so that we could include it here on the
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Man Assaulted by Finnish Neo-Nazi Group Linked to the Soldiers of Odin Dies
Prior to founding the Soldiers of Odin, Ranta, an avowed “White Nationalist” and neo-Nazi, was and still is a member of the Finnish Resistance Movement:
Ranta, who was convicted of a 2005 racially-motivated attack against two immigrants, admits readily to being a neo-Nazi — “Yes, I am” — but insists his ideology and membership in the Finnish Resistance Movement has nothing to do with the patrols.
“Just because I am, as the founder or whatever, it doesn’t mean the whole group are (neo-Nazis)… We’re just a street patrol group, so why are people making it into something else?,” Ranta argued.
Since the publication of the above article, Ranta has been convicted of aggravated assault and given an 18 month suspended sentence for his attack on a man and woman.
Soldiers of Odin Canada, founded by Manitoba resident Joel Angott, was authorized by Ranta’s original Finnish chapter to begin operations in Canada:
This past week, members of the Finnish Resistance Movement assaulted a man during a rally. That man later passed away as a result of his injuries:
FINNISH MAN DIES AFTER BEING ASSAULTED BY NEO-NAZISPosted on 17.9.2016 by mikael
A Finnish man, Jimi Joonas Karttunen, that was assaulted by neo-Nazis from the Finnish Resistance Movement (FRM) Saturday the 10th of September has died of his injuries. The news was first given by his father Kauko-Vesa Karttunen in a Facebook post on Saturday and the identity of the man has since then been confirmed by other sources, including an old school friend that Kaivuri has talked to. The assault against the 28 year old Karttunen happened during a demonstration by FRM in the center of Helsinki. Karttunen was assaulted from the back by members of FRM and hit his head as he fell on the ground, after he had expressed his dissent to the protestors.
What is clear so far is that the victim was hospitalised shortly after the attack due to severe head trauma and remained in intensive care for several days. He was released from the hospital on Thursday but began to suffer from intense headaches again on Friday and called the emergency services. When the emergency services arrived he had already lost consciousness and was proclaimed dead on Friday at 10 PM.
FRM released a video of Karttunen lying on the ground next to a pool of blood on Sunday the 12th of September. In an accompanying text, the organization said they had to ‘discipline’ some people who challenged them, effectively confessing members of the group were behind the assault. Several pictures connected to the article show known members of the organization, giving an idea of which people were present.
The police have, nonetheless, been reluctant comment on the events to mainstream media outlets (1,2,3,4) and refused to verify whether a causal relation between the death of Karttunen, but confirm that the case is under investigation. Meanwhile, in a post on their website, the Antifascist network Varis has connected names to the faces visible in the pictures published by FMR. Several of the whom have a record of violence against people of colour, queers and political opponents.
Kaivuri will participate in all efforts to bring the attackers to justice and we will continue to update as the situation develops.
The FRM propaganda video of the aftermath can be seen at about 2:06:
Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Examining Soldiers of Odin Claims to Have "Purged" Membership of Racists
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- Soldiers of Odin put down roots in Saskatchewan
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But because of the group’s name, they’re being forced to strike down misconceptions that they are a fringe group looking to keep Canada white.
“That’s just misinformation that’s been brought over from other countries,” Agnott said. “What they do over in Finland and in Europe, they have all sorts of different issues altogether. That’s not really what we are. We’re an independent charter of Soldiers of Odin; we’re a community watch group.”
But this bit of information isn’t widely known in Canada, and it’s led to the Soldiers of Odin Canada to be shut down in one instance where they tried to hold a fundraiser.
On Aug. 27, the Saskatchewan chapter tried to hold a barbecue fundraiser for STARS Air Ambulance.
Mark Oddan, communications lead for STARS in Saskatchewan told the CBC, when the Soldiers of Odin approached the organization to see if they would attend the fundraiser, STARS declined to attend.
“We didn’t know who this group was and then did some research and thanked them for their interest and their support, but we declined their invite and said we cannot accept any funds from them as their values are not aligned with ours,” Oddan said.
The blog Anti-Racist Canada (ARC) — an anonymous group that says it is concerned by racist movements — has been tracking SOO Canada mostly via social media since at least March of this year.
An ARC representative, who identified themselves only as ‘nos’, questions why public statements by people like Angott decrying racism don’t seem to match with the activity of its members in private and sometimes secret Facebook groups.
ARC has also pointed to social media connections between SOO members and members of outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Angott himself, ARC notes, was Facebook friends with Ingrid Rimland, wife of notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel.
When asked about this, Angott told SooToday he had received a Facebook request from a profile with that name but that he did not know who that person was, who Ernst Zündel was, or that holocaust denial “was a thing” and he has since unfriended the account.
- Angott has been very careful about who he has added as a friend on his Facebook profile (believe us, we’ve tried to add him but he seems a bit skittish for some reason) so it doesn’t seem realistic that he would add Rimland whom he claims not to have known.
- Why would an 80 year old woman seemingly randomly add some guy as a friend who lived in Gimli, Manitoba?
- As “Holocaust revisionist royalty” through her own efforts as well as her marriage to Ernst Zundel, people who are inclined to agree with her views would be more likely to request her friendship than the other way around, though we should hasten to add that there’s nothing yet that indicates that SOO Canada founder and president Joel Angott has denied the reality of the Holocaust himself.
- If Ingrid Rimland slipped through the cracks, that would be one thing. But how might he then explain the others we’ve found who have ties to racist groups?
Angott said that over the summer Soldiers of Odin purged some of its Canadian members for having racist views, and has deliberately distanced itself from racist groups.
“We’ve slowed down on accepting members until we’ve fully checked them out and fully vetted them. We did have some people with ulterior motives come into our organization. We weren’t as vigilant as we should have been with these types of people. We did some research, back checking on who they are and what they stand for and we have released people that didn’t have the values that our organization carried (because) they were racist,” said Angott.