UPDATE: Let's go through the named people on this poster. https://twitter.com/YYCantiracist/status/1351451162562621440
Brad Carrigan appears to be one of the main organizers of the "walk for freedom" events, which are anti-mask and anti-lockdown events. There is no social distancing and no masks anywhere to be seen.
hhttps://twitter.com/JaneQCitizen/status/1321262517306290177?s=20
A couple of the posters from Carrigan's facebook. We see some of the usual conspiratorial "5G, globalists and UN bad, vaccines bad".
Carrigan ran for office in 2011, his main issues were x-ray scanners and believed vaccines caused autism 🤔 He is also listed as a Party Leader for the New Federation Party of Canada.
Except there is no party listed as such on the Elections Canada website https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#a1
Next is Kevin J Johnston (KJJ).
KJJ is from Ontario where he was sued for making islamophobic and racist comments about Paramount foods owner Mohamad Fakih, even going as far as saying he wouldn't be allowed in due to being white. Read the lawsuit here
https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/staticcontent/AttachedDocs/Paramount%20Fine%20Foods%20et%20al.%20v.%20Kevin%20J.%20Johnston%20et%20al.%20June%2020,%202018.pdf
KJJ has built a career targeting Muslims, being paranoid about Mosques, accusing mayors of being islamists and creating conspiracies. During the anti-Muslim crackdown in Rohingya, the Myanmese government invited KJJ to "tell the truth". https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/963815898560724992?s=20
KJJ has been part of the Canadian far right "Patriots" movement for some time, filming at events and telling his own narratives. His own narratives run out of steam, which is probably why he made an account pretending to be an ex-Muslim woman. https://twitter.com/VestsCanada/status/1257031147021729792?s=20
KJJ has run for mayor in Missasauga and is claiming to run for mayor in Calgary #yyc #yyccc
You can read more about KJJ here, he's a treat.
https://bridge.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Kevin-Johnston-factsheet_March2019-2.pdf
Next is Peter Downing - Downing is ex-RCMP. He started the WEXIT party #ableg At the time of WEXIT, he tapped into the yellowvest rhetoric. He also seemed to be lying to stroke his temperamental base into a rage. https://twitter.com/VestsCanada/status/1202959881050951680?s=20
Downing resigned from Wexit & doesn't seem very good at keeping friends. Downing's conservatism is very American, so American he suggested Alberta join the US and so American that he posed with the confederate flag. https://twitter.com/EdmontonAgainst/status/1351208044621950979?s=20
I just want to remind people that the Confederacy lasted for 4 years and fought to keep black people as slaves. It's one thing for Americans to raise, it's a completely other monster for Canadians to do so. Why not fly a Rhodesian flag as well? I digress, NEXT
Laura Lynn Tammy Thompson LLTT - A Christian televangelist and fundamentalist who does the usual fundamentalist bigotry, joined with the People's Party of Canada and even hired the Soldiers of Odin as her security. https://twitter.com/ARCCollective/status/1140365088030777344?s=20
Artur Pawlowski is a Street Church pastor who has been defying the mask legislation since the beginning. Pawlowski has a history of being contrarian, anti- LGBTQ2SI and Islamophobic. Pawlowski also runs as a candidate in the Christian Heritage Party https://twitter.com/JaneQCitizen/status/1176641988357046272?s=20
The thing that all of them have in common is:
1) their activism against race, religion, orientation
2) right wing affiliations to political parties
3) Their connection and involvement to the Canadian far right patriot movement, which is fascist
This event is a month away, and there will be have to be more about this coming up.
Also shoutout to @EdmontonAgainst for help with some of the links
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