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Hiawatha Pete

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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 10:51 AM Jan 2021

Canadian Proud Boys in panic as platforms go offline and government talks of terror listing

The petitions to list the PB's as a terrorist organization are working, fellow Cdn DU'ers!

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“There’s definitely a sense of panic,” said Elizabeth Simons, deputy director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.

“It’s splintering them further. It’s causing a lot of them to reconsider whether they want to be part of it,” Simons said. “I suspect that we’re going to see more of that this week.”

Described in a Canadian military report on hate groups as an “extremist conservative group” that is “openly Islamophobic and misogynistic,” the Proud Boys were founded by Canadian Gavin McGinnes.

Following the events in Washington, D.C., NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called on Ottawa to designate the Proud Boys a terrorist group

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Source:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7568383/canadian-proud-boys-panic/

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