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Gravel is thrown at Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, left, as the RCMP security detail provide protection, while protesters shout at a local microbrewery during the Canadian federal election campaign in London Ont., on Monday, September 6, 2021. (Nathan Denette/CP)

Protesters threw rocks at the PM. It should matter more.

Fatima Syed: Hate is a virus that grows rapidly if left unaddressed. And it’s been left unaddressed or dismissed by our political leaders for far too long.  

Members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators during an "End Domestic Terrorism" rally in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2019 (Noah Berger/AP/CP)

Canada needs to brace itself for the next chapter of far-right extremism

Jenn Jefferys: To shrug it off as a threat that died along with Trump’s presidency, or as a purely American ailment, is as dangerous as it is apathetic

A flag flies outside a burning corrections building during protests and rioting in Kenosha, Wis. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

We are all witnessing the Great American Implosion

Adnan R. Khan: Trump’s paranoid gang of conspiracy theorists are armed and angry, preparing for war. It’s starting to feel downright apocalyptic here—and I’ve barely mentioned the pandemic

Could Canada soon face a vigilante problem?

Shannon Gormley: Researchers in Europe have identified the conditions in which far-right vigilantes emerge. Canada ticks a lot of the boxes.

The Legion tells neo-Nazis to get lost

An extremist group now seeking to register as a political party held a meeting at a Legion hall in Saskatchewan. It won’t happen again, says the local executive director.

It’s time to take on far-right extremism

Opinion: Far-right nationalists can no longer be thought of as a fringe group. They’re leading one of the major terrorist movements of our time.

The lessons Canada should learn from Britain’s anti-immigrant politics

Opinion: Canada is seen as a global beacon on immigration. But Justin Trudeau would be wise to look for the warning signs that Britain ignored before Brexit

Donald Trump and our crisis of loneliness

Scott Gilmore: Surveys reveal that people are living increasingly isolated existences, and it may help explain the rise of far-right politics

The cautionary tale of Germany’s growing far-right

Adnan R. Khan on why it’s not fascism or even racism that’s driving the surprising success of the German far right. Canada should take notice.

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A hard right turn

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is surging in the polls

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Minister of rock

Czech Michael Kocab is part revolutionary, part pop star