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Take them at Their Word
This post was authored by Junior Fellow Diana Wallens and makes the argument that we should take politicians at their word when they make promises - especially promises that impact people’s rights.

Diana Wallens
Apr 265 min read


The federal election and the need for critical engagement
This election-themed post we hope to highlight just a few of the issues as we see them in our election and the roles/impacts that these issues have relative to the far-right in Canada. Moving from broad to specific, these issues permeate the Canadian electorate and each carries with it significant risk.

CIFRS Executive Team
Apr 166 min read


The Tate bros are back in North America, and it matters
The significance of Tate's return has yet to be seen in Canada, but a speculative look can tell us that it isn't good.

Luc Cousineau
Mar 83 min read


We can't stay quiet...
Now more than ever since CIFRS began, we need to be active and speak out.

Luc Cousineau
Jan 303 min read


Beyond Moms for Liberty: the Far-Right’s Movement to Reshape Public School Education in Canada
Last month, North American news outlets extensively covered Moms for Liberty’s (M4L) annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

Diana Wallens
Sep 6, 20235 min read


Nationalistic Rage: Anti-Syrian Refugee Sentiment in Turkiye
In this blog post, we shift our focus from the far-right in Canada to explore how anti-refugee sentiments are expressed in Turkiye.

Nur Helvali
Aug 18, 20235 min read


CIFRS Statement on the University of Waterloo Stabbing Incident
Statement on the University of Waterloo stabbing from CIFRS Executive Director Mariel Cooksey and Co-Director of Research, Dr. Amy Mack:...

CIFRS Executive Team
Jul 10, 20236 min read


The Politics of Freedom Part 1: Necropolitics and Sovereignty
As a medical anthropologist and a critical whiteness scholar I have recently reflected on the meaning of ‘Freedom’ in an era post-...

Kathleen Mah
Jun 9, 20235 min read


The Far-Right’s Dangerous Influence on Healthcare and How it Affects the Transgender Community
This is a joint article written by CIFRS' Head of Communications, Kat Fuller and Senior Fellow, Dr. Quinnehtukqut McLamore The biggest...

Kat Fuller
Apr 17, 20236 min read


From Fringe to Mainstream: The North American Groyper Movement
Or: How the North American Groyper Movement Successfully Campaigned to Place White Nationalism at the Front-and-Center of Center-Right...

Diana Wallens
Apr 3, 20234 min read


Cloaked in White Supremacy: Steps We Can Take to Mitigate the Reach of Harmful Far-Right Memes
The far-right uses coded language to spread harmful ideologies through sharing memes.

Ryan Hopkins
Feb 22, 20234 min read


A Look At The Freedom Convoy Protest, One Year Later
It has been a year since the Freedom Convoy began its demonstrations in Ottawa - what can we learn and what comes next?

Diana Wallens
Jan 20, 20234 min read


Social media misogyny: The new way Andrew Tate brought us the same old hate
If you don’t recognize the name Andrew Tate, you have (luckily) avoided one of the most significant waves of misogyny on social media.

Luc Cousineau
Nov 29, 20224 min read


Cloaked in White Supremacy: How the Far-Right Uses Memes in Their Spread of Harmful Rhetoric
This is the second in a series of posts on the far-right and memes. In the previous installment of this series, I spoke about memes in a...

Ryan Hopkins
Sep 29, 20225 min read


Cloaked in White Supremacy: How the Far-Right Uses Memes in Their Spread of Harmful Rhetoric
This is the first in a series of publications on the far-right and memes. In February 2022, Canada’s capital faced an unprecedented...

Ryan Hopkins
Aug 15, 20224 min read


Opinion: The Far-Right Is Ready for Collapse, Are We?
In the face of oncoming collapse, we're not offering our own youth a viable alternative to being radicalized. How do fix it?

Mariel Cooksey
Jul 28, 20226 min read


Book Review: Whiteness Fractured
In the book Whiteness Fractured (2013), sociologist Cynthia Levine-Rasky explains how whiteness is conceptualized in Canada and the...

Kat Fuller
Jun 6, 20225 min read


“Illegal Runes, Illegal Memes”: What can fringe memes tell us about the far-right?
This blog post is based on a book chapter I wrote that appears in Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech edited by Sahana...

Amy Mack
Jun 2, 20226 min read


On mandates, the convoy, and the Canadian pandemic Overton window
As I write this, we are into a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated changes to life that have come along with it. At...

Luc Cousineau
May 2, 20228 min read


We Need to Look at the Way Academia Talks About Inceldom
When we label attackers incels when they have not claimed that identity, we inflate their power.

Luc Cousineau
Apr 11, 20228 min read
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