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Diagolon
Diagolon is a Canadian alt-right organization which was considered significant to the Canada convoy protest by the Government of Canada. It is led by Jeremy MacKenzie (activist), Jeremy MacKenzie. Organisation and aims Diagolon is a right wing, alt-right, extremist militia network with chapters throughout Canada. It has been described in a report by the House of Commons of Canada as a "violent extremist organisation." According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network the "neo-fascist militia" The Group believes that "a violent revolution is coming," and is an "Accelerationism, accelerationist movement that believes a revolution is inevitable and necessary to collapse the current government system. It wants to build its ideal nation-state, which runs diagonally from Alaska through the western provinces down to Florida". A member of Diagolon, Alex Vriend, was noted by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network as "one of the most outspoken and influential members" and was reported to be an anti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy MacKenzie (activist)
Jeremy MacKenzie (born 1985 or 1986) is a Canadian right-wing activist, military veteran, Plaid Army podcaster, the founder of far-right group Diagolon, and a Canada convoy protester. Interests and views MacKenzie is a right-wing activist who founded the alt-right group Diagolon. He is a firearms enthusiast and a Plaid Army podcaster. MacKenzie has stated that there is a race war occurring in the US, and has described the Nuremberg trials, Nuremberg Trials as a kangaroo court. Career and activism MacKenzie joined for the Canadian Armed Forces in 2003 and worked as infantryman for the Royal Canadian Regiment, which included a deployment in Afghanistan. MacKenzie is present on many social media platforms where he uses variations of the username ''Raging Dissident''. Canada convoy protest and activism In early 2022, MacKenzie took part in the Canada convoy protest. In February 2022, he was identified by Minister of Public Safety, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaid Army
The Plaid Army is a group of Canadian internet live streamers know for trolling and far right politics. The group has been accused by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network of islamophobia and anti-semitism. Activities and views The Plaid Army is a group of far right internet trolls. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network describe the group as racist and antisemitic. Membership and associations The Ontario Provincial Police reported connections between the Plaid Army and the "Patriot Movement" who are known for their "opposition of provincial and federal government responses to the COVID-19 public health crisis.” The group is also associated with the far-right protest group Diagalon. People connected to both groups were present at the Canada convoy protests. Members include right-wing video bloggers Jeremy MacKenzie and Derek Harrison. Harrison wanted the convoy protests to turn violent, akin to the January 6 United States Capitol attack On January 6, 2021, following the defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Order Emergency Commission
The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC; ), also known as the Rouleau inquiry or the Inquiry into Emergencies Act was a public inquiry in Canada that investigated the invoking of the ''Emergencies Act'' on February 14, 2022 by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the Canada convoy protests. It was the first time the ''Emergencies Act'' had been invoked and it remained in place from February 14–23, 2022, the POEC investigated the rational for invoking the ''Emergencies Act'' and the measures taken for dealing with the emergency". The inquiry was led by commissioner Justice Paul Rouleau, who was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on April 25, 2022. Justice Rouleau had a surgical intervention which delayed the inquiry from September 19, 2022 to mid-October. The inquiry is independent of the parliamentary review committee. Public hearings were held at the Winifred Bambrick Room in Ottawa from October 13 until December 2, 2022. During the 31 days o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irony Poisoning
Irony poisoning is a term to describe when someone starts out believing something ironically, but later starts to actually believe it. It is often used when referring to normalising extremist views through the use of humour, particularly online, but it's not exclusive to it. Use The term is more frequently used by younger people and first appeared in ''The New York Times'' in 2018. Notable examples ''The New York Times'' used the term to describe the chain of events that led up to German man Dirk Denkhaus trying to set fire to a house homing refugees after exchanging racist memes and Nazi greetings online. In 2022, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network have accused Diagolon Diagolon is a Canadian alt-right organization which was considered significant to the Canada convoy protest by the Government of Canada. It is led by Jeremy MacKenzie (activist), Jeremy MacKenzie. Organisation and aims Diagolon is a right wi ... of using irony poisoning to desensitise hateful rhetoric throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaida Poilievre
Anaida Poilievre (; born 1986 or 1987) is a Canadian political staffer, online magazine publisher, and the wife of Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre. Early life and education Poilievre was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a father who was a bank manager. In 1995, when she was eight years old, her family moved to Montreal. In Montreal her father worked collecting fruit and vegetables at a farm. She studied communications at the University of Ottawa. Poilievre speaks English, French, and Spanish. Career After working in retail and customer service roles, in 2008, aged 20 years, she was employed as a parliamentary affairs Advisor at the Senate of Canada before taking a job in the House of Commons of Canada. In 2013, she started a job working for Claude Carignan as a foreign affairs advisor. She is a co-founder of ''Pretty and Smart Co'' online lifestyle magazine. Personal life and views She married Pierre Poilievre in 2017 in Sintra, Portugal. Early in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Alleged Plot To Kill Coutts RCMP Officers
In February 2022, four Canadian men were arrested on allegations that they conspired to kill Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The arrests occurred during the Canada convoy protest on the Coutts, Alberta, side of the Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing. According to police, the plot was part of a wider plan to alter "Canada's political, justice and medical systems." Background In January 2022, people protested in Coutts about their objections to public health measures implemented by Canadian governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The protest was the start of a convoy of protestors that later proceeded to Ottawa. The protest blocked the border crossing to the United States. After hearing reports that protestors were planning to bring firearms to the protest and prepare for "war", police deployed undercover officers. Police also used telephone wiretaps to listen to mobile phones. Due to the perceived emergency, no prior judicial authorisation was obtaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Convoy Protest
A series of protests and blockades in Canada against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions, called the Freedom Convoy (french: Convoi de la liberté, links=no) by organizers, began in early 2022. The initial convoy movement was created to protest vaccine mandates for crossing the United States border, but later evolved into a protest about COVID-19 mandates in general. Beginning January 22, hundreds of vehicles formed convoys from several points and traversed Canadian provinces before converging on Ottawa on January 29, 2022, with a rally at Parliament Hill. The convoys were joined by thousands of pedestrian protesters. Several offshoot protests blockaded provincial capitals and border crossings with the United States. In late 2021, both Canada and the US accommodated unvaccinated cross-border truckers by exempting them from COVID-19 vaccine requirements in order to prevent exacerbating existing supply chain disruptions. The exemptions in Canada ended on January 15, 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing
The Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing connects the town of Sweet Grass, Montana with the village of Coutts, Alberta, on the Canada–United States border. I-15 on the American side joins Alberta Highway 4 on the Canadian side. Similarly, BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) connect. A primary conduit for cross border trade estimated at billion, it is the busiest crossing for both the province of Alberta and state of Montana, and among the busiest west of the Great Lakes. Canadian side Prior to the building of the CP across the prairies in the early 1880s, this part of Canada was accessed via the Macleod–Benton Trail from the Missouri River. The trail crossed the boundary about west of Coutts. In 1890, the Galt group built a Coutts–Lethbridge, Alberta narrow gauge railway. That year, a customs office opened using a room in the train station. In 1891, administrative oversight was transferred from Fort McLeod to the Port of Lethbridge. Oversight moved to the Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alt-right Organizations
The alt-right, an abbreviation of alternative right, is a far-right, white nationalist movement. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late 2000s before increasing in popularity during the mid-2010s and establishing a presence in other countries, and then declining since 2017. The term is ill-defined, having been used in different ways by alt-right members, media commentators, journalists, and academics. In 2010, the American white nationalist Richard B. Spencer launched ''The Alternative Right'' webzine. His "alternative right" was influenced by earlier forms of American white nationalism, as well as paleoconservatism, the Dark Enlightenment, and the Nouvelle Droite. His term was shortened to "alt-right", and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan. It came to be associated with other white nationalist websites and groups, including Andrew Anglin's ''Daily Stormer'', Brad Griffin's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Far-right Political Movements
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of Canada. As police services are the constitutional responsibility of provinces and territories of Canada, the RCMP's primary responsibility is the enforcement of federal criminal law, and sworn members of the RCMP have jurisdiction as a Law enforcement officer, peace officer in all provinces and territories of Canada.Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act', RSC 1985, c R-10, s 11.1. However, the service also provides police services under contract to eight of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada#Provinces, provinces (all except Ontario and Quebec), all three of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territories, more than 150 municipalities, and 600 Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous communities. In addition to en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Mendicino
Marco Mendicino (; born July 28, 1973) is a Canadian politician who has been the Minister of Public Safety since October 26, 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Mendicino represents Eglinton—Lawrence in the House of Commons, sitting as a member of Parliament (MP) since 2015. He was the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship from 2019 to 2021. Early life Mendicino was born to Italian immigrant parents. He studied political science at Carleton University, before attending law school at the University of Windsor. Later in his career he also studied human resources management at York University's Schulich School of Business. As Crown counsel Mendicino worked as a federal prosecutor for ten years, during which time he was involved in the handling of the Toronto 18 terrorism case. He also worked for the Law Society of Upper Canada, served as the president of the Association of Justice Counsel, and taught as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Political ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
