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25.02.2023 / 08:51

Poilievre condemns ‘racist’ views of far-right German politician who met Tory MPs

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre denounced a German politician after several Tory MPs were criticized for meeting with her while she was in Canada this week.

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Anti-LGBTQ2 protests are on the rise in Canada: What’s going on?

protests against the queer community has risen sharply across North America in recent months and groups that study online hate believe they know why.“The data shows an uptick in anti-LGBT+ demonstrations in Canada alongside the larger increase in the United States,” said Sam Jones, communications lead for the Armed Conflict Location and Data Project. “More anti-LGBT+ demonstration events have already been recorded in Canada so far this year than in all of 2021 and 2023 is on track to exceed 2022.”Canadian Anti-Hate Network executive director Evan Balgord says Canada is seeing the protests happening right across the country with multiple events happening every week.

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Jeremy Mackenzie, ‘Diagolon’ founder and far-right figurehead, arrested

Jeremy Mackenzie, a far-right livestreamer and founder of the de-facto group “Diagolon,” has been arrested on a Canada-wide warrant, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia RCMP have confirmed to Global News.

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Diagolon: What to know about the group whose founder shook Pierre Poilievre’s hand

Conservative leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre came under fire this past weekend after an image of him shaking hands with Jeremy Mackenzie, the founder of a group known as “Diagolon,” emerged.

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Coutts blockaders discussed blocking airport cargo terminals: private threat assessment

A covert operation conducted by an Edmonton security firm determined some protesters occupying the Coutts border had become so emboldened by the blockade’s success they discussed blocking cargo terminals at airports across the country in an ongoing attempt to force a change of government in Ottawa.

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Far-right groups received large Bitcoin payment ahead of U.S. Capitol riot: report

storming of the U.S. Capitol, cryptocurrency compliance startup Chainalysis said on Friday.The payments, made by a French donor, of 28.15 bitcoins were made on Dec.

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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer links thwarted kidnapping plot to Trump

Donald Trump, arguing Thursday in a speech hours after arrests were announced that Trump’s words had been a “rallying cry” for extremists.Whitmer, a Democrat, said the Republican president has spent the last seven months of the coronavirus pandemic “denying science, ignoring his own health experts, stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division.” FBI foils far-right plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer She singled out Trump’s debate comments, when he didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and told one far-right extremist group to “stand up and stand by.”“Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry,” Whitmer said.

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Far-right protesters rally against coronavirus measures, try to storm German parliament

pandemic restrictions, but were intercepted by police and forcibly removed.The incident occurred after a daylong demonstration by tens of thousands of people opposed to the wearing of masks and other government measures intended to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Police ordered the protesters to disband halfway through their march around Berlin after participants refused to observe social distancing rules, but a rally near the capital’s iconic Brandenburg Gate took place as planned.Footage of the incident showed hundreds of people, some waving the flag of the German Reich of 1871-1918 and other far-right banners, running toward the Reichstag building and up the stairs.

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‘Escalating’ far-right violence in U.S. to pose greatest terrorist threat: experts

extremism is by far the most common ideology behind terrorist incidents in the United States, according to a new analysisIn a report released last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed 25 years of domestic terrorism incidents, finding that “right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994,” outpacing terrorist acts by all other sources such as “far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.” Over 6,600 right-wing extremist social media channels, accounts linked to Canada, study finds Furthermore, the report found that occurrences of these right-wing attacks have since grown significantly in the past six years,

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Online searches for far-right content across Canada increase during lockdown, study finds

COVID-19 lockdown, some have turned to the internet in search for far-right extremist content.Moonshot CVE, a U.K.-based counter-extremism research firm, has noticed a significant surge in Canadians seeking out extremist content online.Moonshot tracked searches for “violent far-right keywords” in the six weeks leading up to the countrywide lockdown and compared them to the six weeks when Canadians were confined. Searches in the Montreal and Laval areas rose 24 per cent.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0