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From the Klan to the Convoy: authors warn Canada’s homegrown far right is evolving, not fading

Stephanie Carvin and Amarnath Amarasingam say the COVID-19 pandemic unified a fragmented movement ‘that could easily snap back together’ under the right environment.
Far-right anti-migration groups gather on Parliament Hill to protest Canada signing the United Nations Global compact on Migration on Dec. 8, 2018.

The authors of a new book tracing the domestic roots of far-right extremism in Canada—from the Ku Klux Klan’s arrival a century ago to the rise of modern “alt-right” movements—warn that while the movement has fragmented since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

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