Court has opened for the third day of the trial of Patrick Macdonald (aka Dark Foreigner). We are watching the case and will be sharing updates throughout the day.

antihate.ca/canadian_atomw… You can catch up on the second day here.

We're also over on The Other Place 🦋

https://x.com/antihateca/status/1858884972720844869

The second day of the Patrick Macdonald's trial is about to begin. Known as The Dark Foreigner, he faces charges of participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, & the commission of offence for a terrorist group.

antihate.ca/canadian_atomw… Yesterday we heard testimony from Dr. Barbara Perry, who gave background on the broader far-right and the Atomwaffen Division--the terrorist group Macdonald is accused of creating propaganda for. The court has yet to decide if it will recognize Perry as an expert.

CAHN REPORT: A Quebec teenager has been recruiting for a new neo-Nazi militia on TikTok & Telegram using old Atomwaffen propaganda. He told his following the goal was to “kill Jews & immigrants”

1/antihate.ca/kernatium_divi… CAHN has been able to find and identify several of the most radical members of this neo-Nazi group. In our first public long-form report, we examine how materials from Iron March and Atomwaffen Division were used as a model for building the group.

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1/ NEW: Freedom Convoy Organizer Identifies Herself as a “White Nationalist” in Conference Call With Neo-Nazis

Trinity Productions’ Bethan Nodwell denied the Holocaust and claimed that “white identitarianism is inevitable.” 🧵

antihate.ca/freedom_convoy… 2/ On the call, which hosted numerous neo-Nazis, Nodwell self-identified as a white nationalist, and told Diagolon streamer Alex Vriend that she would ask popular Dutch far-right media figure @EvaVlaar to start “naming the Jew.”

Several people have contacted us very alarmed abt reports coming out of the US that white supremacists are planning a “Day of Hate” targeting the Jewish community, & asking if anything similar is being planned here. We empathize w/these fears, & want to share some perspective. 🧵 2/ First, we want to extend our solidarity to the Jewish community & all those who are frightened & enraged by these reports. In the context of rising antisemitism & other forms of hate, it makes sense that something like this would be disturbing to those who are targeted.

Ben Mockler (AKA Ben Burke) has spent years building a following in the world of international fascism. Now he’s recruiting in Canada’s capital for the world’s largest white power gang and owns a gym on Rideau St. #Ottawa
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antihate.ca/cult_recruiter… As “Aquilla the Eagle,” Mockler has been an organizer for the Ottawa Active Club since its inception. Our previous investigation found the decentralized Active Club movement is lead in Canada by the Vinland Hammerskins, a violent white power gang.
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antihate.ca/neo_nazi_stree…

1/ Make it your new year’s resolution to go and demonstrate for social justice and against far right bullies. Here’s 5 ways to start. 🧵

antihate.ca/5_ways_to_stop… 2/ Create a solidarity group.

Get together with some friends and go to demonstrations. Working as a group keeps you safe, and helps you meet other community-defence minded people. Keep each other in the loop for actions.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is proudly antifascist, and that means we have critics. In 2019, Jon and Barbara Kay shared an article which says that we fund violence. This is a lie. One of our board members sued them as an individual because he was named in the article. The Kays tried their hardest to connect us with violence, and failed. They tried to make it sound sinister that we’re fans of the International Antifascist Defence fund, which covers emergency, medical, and legal bills for antifascists. That was the best they could come up with.

Today, Jeremy MacKenzie accused us of purposely engaging in misinformation at #POEC . So let’s set the record straight, again, about the antisemitic flyer incident. A statement /🧵 During the occupation, Bernie Farber got an email from a friend, who’s a lawyer, that said their adult kid had seen antisemitic flyers and signs at the occupation. He tweeted one of the photos from the email from his personal account.

🚨Municipal and school board elections are coming up. Find and tag your local candidates in these #QuestionsForTrustees to find out where they stand on anti-hate issues. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#BCed #MBed #ONed #Yukon #NWT #PEI #QuestionsForTrustees 1: Will you support the raising of the rainbow flag during Pride month? #QuestionsForTrustees

Tag your school board trustee candidates to find out where they stand!

1/ Despite the violent misogyny inherent to fascism, teenage girls are not immune to being groomed and recruited into hate movements. This week, we're giving you a primer on two subcultures we are most worried about young women getting involved in. 🧵

antihate.ca/feminine_fasci… 2/ While the underlying ideology is the same as hate movements that attract teenage boys, the roles that teenage girls and young women embody, and the specific online subcultures they gather in, are often gender-specific.

On July 28th we received a “Cease and Desist” from James Topp or a member of his team at @CanadaMarches. We responded a few hours later to address the falsehoods in the letter and to have a conversation with Mr. Topp like the letter asked. 🧵
antihate.ca/letter_to_jame… We warned Mr. Topp that he was getting bad intel, and told him to do his own research on Diagolon and Jeremy MacKenzie, providing links and clips. The letter said Mr. Topp wanted to talk, but we never heard back, despite multiple follow up emails and DMs.

1/ Christopher Pretula's vile anti-trans tirade on a #HamOnt bus last week led us into the extremely hostile and aggressive world of "IRL streaming," and Pretula's own history of racism, misogyny, and trolling.🧵antihate.ca/man_charged_pa… 2/ Regularly posting to YouTube in short video clips or long streams lasting 5+ hours, Pretula - who streams as "Mr. Bum Tickler" is facing two charges, according to the Hamilton Police, who are seeking to have the incident classified as a hate offence. hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/hamilton-…

🧵We located Veterans For Freedom's 'Camp Eagle,' where the far-right are staging for their Ottawa protests this summer.

In images of the camp posted to Telegram, children are seen holding the Diagolon flag. /1 The farm/camp is located near the village of Dunvegan, in North Glengarry, ON and is approx. an hour outside of Ottawa.

Based on images posted online, the camp has 2 large tents. Posts to social media say there has been a steady presence there since the February convoy. /2

🧵 Pierre Poilievre has endorsed the far-right in Canada by endorsing the fake 'freedom' movement. This movement, if it can be characterized by one thing, it's that it wants to see politicians and health officials put on trial for treason and executed. /1

https://twitter.com/pressprogress/status/1542885914065752065

This is the first time in memory that a major Canadian politician has endorsed people who get together en masse to wish for an insurrection and the murder of their political opposition. /2

🧵We'll be dropping updates and information from researchers and journalists about various #CanadaDay incidents and events in this thread. ⬇️

If you see something we should include, send us a DM!

#CanadaDay2022 #Ottawa #cdnpoli #cdnmedia We'll start with a roundup of some coverage from yesterday.

@atRachelGilmore covered Poilievre's walk with James Topp here:
globalnews.ca/news/8959365/c…

Former Canadian Proud Boys are running a neo-Nazi propaganda network. Its largest Telegram channel, Western Chauvinist, (now defunct) had over 42K followers. Now, they’re networking with other groups like the Hammerskins & trying to organize in-person
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antihate.ca/former_canadia… In 2021, the Canadian Proud Boys went through a split. Some wanted to be more explicitly racist and fascist and picked the name “Canada First.” This breakaway group included Brandon Lapointe, Nicholas Bennett and former PB elder Tim Kelly.
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EXCLUSIVE: Within the whites-only Active Club network, we found that their recruiters were actually the Vinland Hammerskins, one of the most violent old-school racist skinhead groups active in Canada. 🧵antihate.ca/neo_nazi_stree… In Canada they’ve been accused of multiple assaults on racialized persons, going back decades.

In the US they've been tied to multiple murders. /2

Testimony today from @gofundme before the House public safety committee re: Ottawa Convoy/Occupation.

parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow… MP Alistair MacGregor asked counsel for GFM if they were aware of the Memorandum of Understanding. GDM confirms they were not aware, and that there were no issues with the campaign early on.

Good news! We first warned that, under current rules, far-right and neo-Nazi parties could easily access the voters list and get public funds by registering as parties. We spoke with Elections Canada about it. Now they're proposing changes. #cdnpoli ctvnews.ca/mobile/politic… As long as Elections Canada has to register and provide the voters list to any party, including the PPC and Canadian Nationalist Party, we don't feel safe voting. We've removed ourselves from voters lists and helped journalists and antifascists do it too. We're disenfranchised.

After a few false starts and some wildness in the zoom chat, it looks like Tamara Lich's bail review hearing is about to get underway. There have been multiple attempts to get the review moving but the video call has filled up so quickly members of the court have not been able to join.