Proud Boys

Defence Minister Anita Anand will release a highly anticipated report this morning that is expected to take the military to task for not doing enough to address racism in the ranks over the past two decades.

The co-founder of GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding platform used by protesters who blockaded the national capital, testified on Thursday, March 3, 2022, to being OK with hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Proud Boys fundraising on the site, so long as it was legal.

The Trudeau government is adding the Proud Boys and three other extreme right-wing groups to its list of terrorist organizations to address the sort of neo-fascism and white nationalism that boiled over in the U.S. last month.

The federal NDP's calls for Proud Boys to be labelled terrorists may play well on university and college campuses — even if the demand is ultimately rejected, writes Camilla Bains.

The outgoing commander of Canada’s military says he first realized the Canadian Armed Forces had a real problem with hate and racism three years ago, when navy sailors identifying themselves as “Proud Boys” confronted Indigenous protesters in Halifax.

Authorities are collecting information about the right-wing Proud Boys group as part of a possible terrorist designation, the federal Liberal government said on Sunday, January 10, 2021, as it faced calls to ban the organization over its role in last week’s Capitol Hill riot.

Tens of thousands of the 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump showed up on his doorstep on Saturday, November 14, 2020, urging on the president in his quixotic bid to subvert the results of last week's election.

The commander of the Canadian Army says the military will take action if an investigation finds that a reserve member in Manitoba participated in a hate group.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has asked Canada's military ombudsman to investigate racism in the Canadian Forces following several high-profile incidents and a report linking service members to right-wing extremist and hate groups.

More than 100 people gathered in a Halifax park this week to criticize the rise of the white supremacist movement in the United States and recall racism's role in Canadian history.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations has opened the organization's annual meeting with an impassioned plea to end racism.

Tensions over how Halifax honours its contentious founder are growing as a plan to topple the statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park circulates on social media.

Until this week, few Canadians had heard of the Proud Boys. That changed on Canada Day, when five young men in matching black polo shirts disrupted an Indigenous ceremony in Halifax.