3. Pat King is also still in jail having been denied bail, but he seems to think that he has found the magic formula to get himself out... he just needs his supporters to pony up $100,000.
4. Here is a fairly representative sample of comments that were left on his Facebook page.
5. Heading over to Calgary, we see that Dawid Pawlowski, Artur Pawlowski's brother, was arrested today.
6. Like Artur, Dawid Pawlowski has been a regular at anti-mandate protests, has spread dangerous disinformation, and has engaged in illegal behaviour with the belief he is above the law.
Even while arrested by "tyrants" he is treated with kid gloves.
7. The Telegram page "Real Canadian Convoy" has changed it's name.
8. Now in addition to the anti-mandate rhetoric and vaccine conspiracies, we get to be treated to a steady stream of pro-Putin propaganda because, you know, these folks are critical thinkers.
9. Diagolon de facto leader Jeremy MacKenzie, who predicted the fall of Ukraine in less than 72 hours and suggested the West "take the L" lest Russia wipe them out, is whining about out anti-mandate occupiers are the real victims still.
15. Far-right pseudo-journalist Leigh Stewart seems to believe that, despite mandates appearing to be ending in many province, the real purpose was to create a class of complaint drones easy for the government to control in the future.
16. However she too is annoyed that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has resulted in attention being turned away from what she must regard as "real" tyranny.
17. In fact that is sort of the theme among many who I had been covering.
For example, Tyler Russell of the hate group Canada First, currently vacationing in Mexico thanks to the Bank of Mom and Dad, had been celebrating the "success" of Nick Fuentes' event.
20. And yes, here Tyler Russell and Nick Fuentes are hanging out with Proud Boy founder
Gavin McInnes and with Milo Yiannopoulos.
21. However he is angry that it isn't receiving the attention that he feels it deserves.
22. Yeah, hard to believe a major geopolitical crisis would trump a far-right meet and greet.
23. Chris Saccoccia (aka Chris Sky) is in the process of planning another tour of self-promotion (because of course he is).
25. Already becoming increasingly irrelevant, Mr. Teeth doesn't want people talking about Ukraine because, and I have to presume this, it takes attention away from him personally.
27. Former Rebel Media personality and discount Tin Tin Keean Bexte, well, just has to keep on being Keean Bexte and that is tragedy enough.
28. Now, where does this leave us?
As I told journalists who have interviewed me we have to recognize that these people and those they radicalized are not going away.
29. We saw them move from one issue to another so I don't doubt that they will find the next issue, probably the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, in order to mine outrage and grievance.
30. The question is what do WE as Canadians do?
Do we again bury our heads in the sand and pretend this doesn't exist because it doesn't affect us directly?
Or do we come to terms with the reality of the far-right in this country and take steps to actually confront it and deal with it?
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1. By now I'm guessing that most of my Twitter followers are aware of the most recent threats against Trudeau and the subsequent of a suspect. I think there is an even more important story though related to the poisonous influence of social media
2. Dawid Zalewski was arrested for making death threats against the Prime Minister. The following video was posted to his second Facebook profile. Be warned that it may be triggering as it promotes graphic violence against the PM and others.
3. Zalewski is clearly not well, but I think would be wrong to dismissively call him "crazy" move on without further examination. There is a reason why he got to this point and I believe we can learn a great deal from his social media footprint.
1. I’ve been enjoying my summer break and have not been paying a lick of attention to the Olympics. Until today however since Twitter has collectively lost the plot.
2. Earlier boxer Imane Khelif defeated her Italian opponent in the first round when Angela Carini quit after 45 seconds stating that she had never been hit so hard.
To be fair, I don’t enjoy being punched in the face either so I can at least sympathize with Carini.
3. Now a preliminary fight would never be important enough to make international news under normal circumstances however we are, as the saying goes, living in interesting times.
1. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) was arrested in Calgary on an immigration warrant apparently. He may have since been released, though he has to turn in his passport and remain in southern Alberta.
I'd prefer that he be kicked out immediately.
2. Despite claiming to have been a "political prisoner" many of Yaxley-Lennon's criminal convictions his Islamophobic "activism" and a number of convictions since have had nothing to do with his political views.
3. In 2005, he was convicted assaulting a police officer who intervened during an argument Yaxley-Lennon was having with his then girlfriend.
1/ It's been a while since I've done a thread here, but the recent focus on Pat King got me to wondering what was up with his own Salacious Crumb, Tyson "Freedom George" Billings.
2/ Last time I looked at Billings he was a part of the efforts to set up a permenant camp outside Ottawa so there could be daily protests, though the original plan involved surrounding the police and arresting politicians.
Suffice to say it didn't go anywhere.
3/ Billings and Ron Clark soon headed home, but they both soon got involved in other protests including the anti-carbon tax protests occurring in the province. The numbers at these events have been small but that hasn't stopped from politicians from courting the fringes it seems.
1/ Though I'm not especially active these days, I'm still sometimes gobsmacked by some of the ridiculous (though sadly effective) rage farming by some on the right. Harrison Faulkner of "True North" is just a recent example of that.
2/ So a bit of background. Musical artist Karan Aujla won the 2024 TikTok Juno Fan Choice Award at the award ceremony this past weekend.
I think it was this weekend. Truth be told I don't pay a lot of attention to awards shows.
3/ It should be noted that Aujla has been in Canada for years emigrating as an orphan. He graduated from high school in Canada. The album was produced by a Canadian on a Canadian label.