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Donald Smith is in Vancouver & attending Ken Sim's pressers.

Smith has been filming around downtown & DTES recently. He feeds information about "antifa" to an individual that seems to work with the Diagolon/Second Sons crew who also spins QAnon-level conspiracies about "antifa."

Vanshitty is still posting and doubling down hard.

Y'all. Police are part of the problem. You can be assaulted by a fascist ON VIDEO and still get treated like absolute trash by cops. Ask me how I know this. Ask me how I know that BC crown prosecutors have prioritized edited fascist slop over testimony from real life witnesses.

If you've run into a fascist, cops are not safety.

Cops don't listen to leftists, but do listen to fascists who falsely accuse leftists of crimes in an attempt to chill public opposition. Last week a VPD drone followed me to a public bathroom for the crime of Documenting Fascism (Dallas Brodie).

‘Our women, they get lost on the street’: On the front lines of Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis These ancient trees are almost certainly doomed. Meet the people risking everything to protect them all the same

Brandi Morin's latest: On the front lines of #Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis.

On the frigid city streets, one woman, known as ‘Mama Bear,’ offers care and resistance as police intensify encampment crackdowns.

Read more from @brandimorin.bsky.social:

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And supported by the NDP, BC Cons, and Independents.

Tara "nazis aren't bad, actually" Armstrong dictating a policy change that, if pursued, would kill people in the midst of a toxic drug supply crisis because closing OPSes is somehow a serious discussion but safer supply/regulated supply is not.

Canada's Wannabe Charlie Kirk will be on Lower Mainland campuses on Friday & Saturday.

To expose fascist & share information w/ your community for years is an enormous amount of work, work that takes months or years & requires taking on serious risk.

I'm happy more mainstream media is interested. I also think it's vital to recognize the labour that rarely makes it into these stories.

Shoutout to @montrealantifa.bsky.social, who have posted so much information about Frontenac Active Club over the last few years.

Followup questions for Ken Sim: Where did the photo come from? Was it from a far-right disinformation account or influencer? Was it AI slop like the AI slop produced by VanshittyTV?

Canadian context: until 2019, Koch Industries was the largest foreign leaseholder of oil sands in Alberta. Canadian oil built Koch Industries.

Start digging into Cato, Fraser Institute, Canada Proud, Poilievre, Danielle Smith...somehow "Koch" pops up wherever far-right disinformation flourishes.

Yes!

Bonus! At least two of the private security detail members also worked for Dallas Brodie & Drea Humphrey (Rebel News) at UBC.

Pointing this out because these guys are very obviously documenting counterprotestors & working with cops.

Finally, Chris Elston, aka Billboard Chris. Elston is a professional transphobe at this point & works with the Heritage Foundation (of Project 2025 fame), Moms for Liberty, Gays Against Gr--ming & others.

2nd photo: Elston disrupting Vancouver's Trans Day of Visibility, 2023.

Errol Povah, who is never not at a hate rally. However the email from OneBC explicitly stated that signs were not allowed at the event.

Second photo: Povah at UBC in January.

James Davison, OneBC candidate, Freedom Convoy organizer (Stand United), 1 Million March 4 Children organizer. Davison & his partner Marcella Desjarlais (also in attendance) often brought neo-nazi Chris Sky into Vancouver.

2nd photo: Davison at UBC in January.

Obviously it wouldn't be a far-right event without Drea Humphrey of Rebel News, bravely interviewing a cop with the support of private security.

I posted this thread on Twitter during the 2024 provincial election: a quick primer on Danielle Kinchella-Pistilli's Freedom Rally World grifting & Christian Nationalism.

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Next up: Danielle Kinchella-Pistilli & Chris Pistilli. Danielle works with the Christian Nationalist organization Action4Canada & tried to get a chapter started in North Vancouver. She still works with Tanya Gaw & threw her support for OneBC after causing drama with the BC Cons.

And, of course, OneBC candidate Jim McMurtry. McMurtry's is a classic tale of a man who promoted residential school denialism & was eventually fired for racist comments but turned it around into a career of far-right grifting.

Second photo: McMurtry at UBC in January.

Apparently my only photo of Bryan Breguet is him walking behind Jim McMurtry, but he was there.

Breguet works for Langara College & ran for the BC Conservatives.

Masha Kleiner standing beside the event photographer. OneBC supporter, residential school denier (see: www.squamishchief.com/local-news/u...), Honest Reporting Canada fan.

Second photo: Kleiner at UBC in January.

Andrew Brougham aka DrewCouver. He's a OneBC groupie at this point. When he's not promoting residential school denialism & transphobia, he skulks around the DTES harassing folks on the street & workers in the neighbourhood.

Second photo: Brougham at UBC in January.

Mark Emery, OneBC supporter.

If you didn't expect to see the Prince of Pot, here's an article on his...activities: merryjane.com/news/the-fal...

Pierre Barns (behind security), founder of Exposing SOGI 123. Barns spends most of his time harassing educators, school administrators & trustees who minimally recognize 2SLGBTQIA+ rights.

Second photo is Barnes marching with Billboard Chris while attempting to disrupt the August 2023 Trans March.

My phone really failed me so these photos are not good, but I wanted to share some of the individuals who attended a hateful far-right event.

First up is Reddit moderator & OneBC staffer Wyatt Claypool.

How many cops & private security personnel does it take to protect a fascist event?

📍OneBC Vancouver Town Hall with Billboard Chris

Unfortunately this isn't the first time the Hellenic Community of Vancouver has hosted Dallas Brodie.

This is an explicitly anti-2SLGBTQIA+ & anti-SOGI 123 event/propaganda session. It's unacceptable that a sitting MLA is both promoting hate & collaborating with the far right to shore up support from influencers outside of Vancouver.

The details: