1\ I just want to be unambiguously clear, Bryan Trottier claims he has been rehabilitated and has stopped harassment. Further he claims the ongoing harassment is being done by his enemies or former colleagues in #Diagolon. I can prove this is not so.
2\ For years, Bryan has called me and texted me from one phone number, a 613 area code number at which he could, until recently, be personally reached. As recently as August 5th I was receiving texts from this number.
3\ On July 14, he texted me to accuse me of being behind the "Mage" account, another twitter account with whom I am not personally affiliated but who tweets generally about similar subjects: fascism, the culture war, Ukraine etc. with a similar bias.
4\ On July 15, a fake account "Pomo_Bozo" popped up and began tweeting the same accusation he had texted me about from his personal phone number. That's not deniable. Same message, same timeline, one "fake" post, one text from his real phone number.
5\ Yet, in his "argument" with prominent antifascists rejecting his derad Trottier has insisted he was being framed by fake accounts. Why was the harassment they were tweeting a month ago, the exact same content and tone as the things he was texting privately at the same time?
6\ They must count on us being really, really stupid. The fact that his reputation is being laundered by Mubin Shaikh, a CSIS infiltrator, with an exhibit in the spy museum in Washington DC, through a US based NGO "Parents for Peace" should tell you everything you need to know.
7\ I'm trying to organize Bryan's victims right now, reaching out to folks he hurt the most/first and working up the list. There are far more questions than answers and there are more lies than truths. There are also more spies involved than zero and, yeah, you should be scared.
8\ Bryan credits me with his "radicalization". I started opposing the far right in 2016. In 2014 I saw him undercover near a training in Wakefield, Quebec (I proved this). He was at @jordanbpeterson's first campus event and ID'd there by a PI. itsgoingdown.org/rebel-rebuild-…
9\ So what was I doing that radicalized him? Well, in 2016 I was working at CJFE, a job I earned because of my dedicated advocacy on the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015 file, (formerly Bill C-51). That law granted CSIS new powers to disrupt, infiltrate, harass and terrorize.
10\ My work on that campaign was rigorous, academic and peer reviewed. One of my final outputs in that group, before moving on to CJFE, was this post calling attention to the Bristow story. I specifically left StopC51TO with the caution that Grant Bristow 2.0 was out there.
11\ It was in that role that I came into contact with organizations like Leadnow, a group Bryan would later alienate me from, using a fake account to pose as a Leadnow fan "bullying" me. He's been observed and noted to have done similar things elsewhere. montreal-antifasciste.info/en/2018/10/16/…
12\ No ordinary fascist cared enough to sabotage me with an org that I had campaigned alongside to limit the powers of federal spies. When CJFE (also active opposing C-51) collapsed, Bryan left a note at my house calling himself "a fan".
13\ In a case of missing forest for trees, it took me years to realize the malevolent voice in my inbox, the doxxing, harassing, stalking, disrupting, impersonating, forging and all the law-enforcement adjacent activity around it, was linked to that work. you.leadnow.ca/petitions/reje…
14\ Now we have a former CSIS infiltrator using a US based organization to vouch for Trottier. I told CAHN he was involved with the feds A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. This is a person recently identified as a federal informant on a high profile national security case they report on.
15\ The original conflict between CBC and CJFE that lead to me being fired for criticizing Israel's murder of journalists, had nothing to do with Israel. In 2016 the organization was in crisis after CBC threatened to pull support over Bill C-51. canadaland.com/whats-going-on…
16\ CBC believed opposing Bill C-51 would invite trouble for journalists putting them in conflict with spies (their sources). Do NatSec activists become targets for disruption? Could journalists face harassment or disruption? Do many "sell out?" briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/…
17\ It would appear that, if Bryan was being identified as a federal asset a year and a half ago, and HAS BEEN confirmed as a federal asset, vouched for by other federal assets, today, that this could have been the case for much longer than is presently known. 🧐
18\ So without proof, a leak, or a human source on record, it looks like we're approaching the moment that some things will become known. Some things ARE known, now. Confidential human sources, leaks or accurate ATIP hits welcome at this time! kevin.metcalf@protonmail.com
19\ Last time around, there was gaslighting, manipulation, defamation and harassment on our side. I'm not playing that game here. If someone interferes with the conversation about a federal asset being a federal asset, or casts doubt on a VERY plausible story, ignore it.
20\ This time I'm asking every one of Bryan's former victims to join a Victims Union, making contact with each other so we can organize a response. You SHOULD NOT be running off to meet him or assess his "sincerity" alone. That's what he wants. He's still a very dangerous man.
21\ You wouldn't go to meet the cops to assess their intentions. You wouldn't sit down with a fascist to "suss them out". This is a combination of the two, with the added involvement of someone whose personal Wikipedia page says "Spy." (Mubin's wiki needs an update, by the way.)
22\ Let's build collective power and piece together the story, every single detail we've ever learned about Bryan Trottier, compile it, and let the world know who and what he is, how what he did affected us and that we won't let it (or him) rest until harm has been addressed.
23\ Since we see he's been active despite the "deradicalization" and they're vouching for him, it warrants taking a closer look at Parents for Peace. Oh wait, who is that behind Mubin? Is she involved with CAHN, the same org. I notified about Trottier being a fed in 2021?
24\ As far as I know "blame the victim" isn't on any derad curricula, so uh, at what point does this story get newsworthy, given the guy responsible for his derad has worked with the feds on doing the same thing for Daesh members? theconversation.com/de-radicalizat…
25\ Are there former returnee Jihadists wandering around blaming western decadence, LGBT people or Yazidi women for their radicalization? Like, I liked Mubin but if he's signing off on Bryan fucking Trottier then there is valid cause for concern about his work.
26\ I will NOT address last year's defamation campaign. I get it, activism is full of disruptors, agents and backbiting narcissists. I'm not demanding apologies or an inquisition. You know who did it. You know who they're connected to. Don't apologize. Unblock me. Let's do work.
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CAHN actually grew out of my antifascist work, on the back of thousands of hours of unwaged consulting, but CBC wound up using those stills from Russian state media to credit them for my work 2 weeks after having me fired from CJFE for criticizing Israel's killing of journalists.
The earliest involvement of the org's future director at a Canadian protest was May 6, 2017 (where I got assaulted by the JDL). Evan Balgord showed up because my April 1st video had gone viral. He filmed the JDL assaulting me and sold the footage to CBC. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
He's CAHN's Executive Director now. I can go back through his Muck Rack and say (truthfully) that ~80% of his early work was cribbed directly from my notes, activism, scoops, sources (even leaks) I gave him. A lot of that can be proved from chat logs. muckrack.com/evan-balgord/a…
Jack Landau wrote this for Daily Hive, promoting a slum-tier dungeon as affordable housing: "the unit could be viewed as an affordable entry into the rental market that may even end up being the perfect home for a tight-knit group of friends." dailyhive.com/canada/canadia…?
"It is a steal compared to the city-wide average, renting at just $1,650 per month, but the spartan unit comes with some very unique conditions." says Landau, BlogTO editor and pro-developer, pro-landlord propagandist exhibiting absolute glib, inhuman contempt for renters.
These aren't "third world conditions". These are inhuman, exploitative conditions. Landau and Daily Hive should feel the deepest, mortifying shame for trying to normalize exploitative illegal, unsafe rentals. There should be consequences. The landlord should lose this home.
Hey look, a bloc of right wing/elite backed candidates had a BIA hosted debate in my favorite sci fi bar. Weird choice, and not a cheap one either. Nothing says "qualified for public service" quite like a place with $20 cocktails.
Don't get me wrong, they're GREAT cocktails, but anyone not campaigning exclusively for the urban elite might have trouble coaxing working class constituents into showing up at an expensive theme club. Great venue. Wrong backdrop for a political event.
Notably, the frontrunning progressive downtown-focused candidates were absent/snubbed the BIA. An exercise in total wank then. What I really want to know is, is Anthony Furey gonna eat the bugs?
1\ Collin Chepeka contributes to #CAHN, but shouldn't be. Collin deliberately misidentified symbols to defend vandalism of a Ukrainian solidarity display. An antihate.ca contributor was defending the defacing of a Ukrainian flag with a Swastika. #NAFO#NAFOarticle5
2\ So we're clear, the Trident symbol isn't easy to just mistake for the OUN coat of arms (which clearly contains a sword). Collin wasn't just making excuses, but also spreading misinformation. ukraine.ua/stories/triden…
3\ Collin wrote this article for CAHN, highlighting the convoy's racism. Two weeks later Collin defended vandalism involving a swastika. It blows my mind, given the tone CAHN took about the display of that same symbol during the convoy protests. antihate.ca/syncretism_tie…
1\ Following his Twitter ban, everyone's favorite far right harasser, Diagolon turncoat and police informant Bryan Trottier is up in my YouTube comments threatening me with the law. I'm sorely tempted to lay down some truths.
2\ What I will say is that it's no coincidence Trottier lit back up harassing on another platform the same day @mage_against, the only other account that preserved a record of his worst harassment, was suspended from Twitter. web.archive.org/web/2023010417…
3\ Mage's now deleted tweets are directly contravened by former left wing activist Alaa Soufi, who alongside CSIS infiltrator Mubin Shaikh, endorsed Trottier, and "forgave" him for counseling suicide and boasting about the suicide deaths of LGBT activists. deanblundell.com/podcast/mubin-…
1\ Do y'all remember when organizing and promoting these specific panels was literally my job? Funny enough, in the same job I lobbied Mendicino to curtail the powers of federal spies during the C-51/C-59 hearings, when he was on that committee. vice.com/en/article/ezp…
2\ One of our major concerns with C-51 was spying on journalists, and spies pretending to be journalists. That never got addressed. Nevermind issues like fed source relationships with journos (ie. advance scoops/leaks in exchange for secrecy/support etc.)
3\ Two journos on this panel are involved with the niche dramas of the Canadian Anti Hate Network. Its ED was a little -too- interested in my C-51 work in 2017. More on that another day. Here we have a closed loop between feds, corporate journalists and #CAHN, tying it together.