"B lack-clad white men stand at attention. They chant and hold crude banners with "D.E.I. IS HOW NATIONS DIE" and "MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW" scrawled across them. A man screams through a megaphone about "foreign blood" and "retak[ing] our nation" while his followers intone the words "honour," "heritage," and "triumph." This scene-from a video posted to white nationalist Telegram channels-is footage of a rally held in Toronto on May 3 of this year."
"White supremacy arrived in Canada in the fifteenth century, with the first Europeans. Since then, Canada has waged a cultural and literal genocide against Indigenous peoples, including the horrors perpetrated as early as 1831 at Christian church- and government-sponsored residential schools, which were designed to strip children from their families and their culture, with the last federally run residential school closing in 1996."
Black-clad white men publicly marched and chanted slogans such as "D.E.I. IS HOW NATIONS DIE" and "MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW," while a speaker urged expulsion of "foreign blood" and followers repeated "honour," "heritage," and "triumph." The rally footage was posted to white nationalist Telegram channels and took place in Toronto on May 3. The event was organized by Canadian white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups coordinating to bring online hate into public spaces. White supremacy has longstanding roots in Canada, including centuries of violence against Indigenous peoples, church- and government-run residential schools, and discriminatory policies and organizations throughout the twentieth century.
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