The danger that fascist groups pose to safety and democracy in Canada, and their disturbing connections to the Canadian military | The failure of Canadian media to take the fascist threat seriously, even after the lethal terrorist attack against the Quebec mosque | The best new ways to fight them LISTEN/DOWNLOAD In Canada, the threat posed by fascist, Whitesupremacist, and similar extremist groups is real, and growing. The proudly Islamophobic Soldiers of Odin are active right here in Edmonton, and even the right-wing Daily Mail newspaper in England describes as them a neo-nazi group. The Proud Boys are also on the march, and the Southern Poverty Law Centre in the United States names them as a hate group. And then there are the Three Percenters, the Ku Klux Klan, and many others like them, supported by extremist Canadian media and aligned with one major federal party. Alarmed by the rise of fascism in our midst, especially after the election of US president Donald
The late Br. Marlon Riggs was a brilliant documentarian. Here's his classic work Ethnic Notions, which should be required viewing for North Americans or anybody globally who consumes North American pop culture of any form.
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