Canada’s been growing its own strain of white supremacy for decades

Racism left unchecked is the soil which grows white supremacy.

A makeshift flower memorial at the intersection of Hyde Park Road and South Carriage Road, two days after a man in London, Ont., rammed his truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians at this intersection, killing four family members, on June 6, 2021. Mass shootings by white males is not senseless—they are following a pattern formed in racism. To call it senseless means we don’t have to dig in as to why Canadian society is growing a virulent strain of white terrorism, writes Rose LeMay.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

May 23, 2022

OTTAWA—Canada has been growing its own virulent strain of white supremacy for decades. There has been another mass murder in the States and the perpetrator was white and the targeted victims were Black. Between 1982 and 2022, 68 per cent of mass shootings in the United States were by white people...

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