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Nazi Flags Found in Canada Prompt Calls For Hate Crime Investigation
On 5/12/21 at 11:08 AM EDT
A prominent Jewish organization is urging a criminal investigation be launched after neo-Nazi flags were found being flown in a Canadian province.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) has expressed concerns about the extremely disturbing flags which have appeared in Alberta in the space of a few days.
The FSWC said it was first alerted about a Hitler Youth flag being flown on a flagpole near the village of Boyle last week, before also being notified of Hitler Youth and Confederate flags being displayed at a property near Breton a few days later.
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Alec Couros says he was concerned, but not surprised, to see video surface on social media of what appears to be a Canadian Nationalist Party flag being waved at a so-called “freedom rally” in downtown Saskatoon over the weekend.
Couros, an expert in digital citizenship and social media at the University of Regina, says white nationalist and “freedom rally” groups often overlap in the social media channels they use, whether it’s Facebook forums or other websites. White supremacists and white nationalists have also been showing up at such protests in Canada and the United States.
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As early as Tuesday, Manitoba will pass another COVID milestone – 1,000 deaths linked to the virus.
That 1,000th death won’t be any more tragic than the first fatality or the one that marked the 100th fatality earlier in the pandemic.
But it will be yet another reminder of the consequences of COVID-19 and the reluctance of the province to share with the public the deadly trajectory we are all on for as long as this virus is in our midst.
Time and time again, our reporters have asked for the models the province relies on to make critical decisions that will determine what stays open, what stays closed and what impact an easing or tightening of restrictions will have on case counts and death tolls. And time and time again, the answer is invariably that Manitobans should focus on the fundamentals, not the scenarios laid out in some forecast.