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....
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Nur Helvali
- Aug 18
- 5 min
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.
CIFRS Executive Team
- Jul 10
- 6 min
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:...
Kathleen Mah
- Jun 9
- 5 min
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-...
Kat Fuller
- Apr 17
- 6 min
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...
Diana Wallens
- Apr 3
- 4 min
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...
Ryan Hopkins
- Feb 22
- 4 min
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.
Diana Wallens
- Jan 20
- 4 min
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?
Luc Cousineau
- Nov 29, 2022
- 4 min
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.
Ryan Hopkins
- Sep 29, 2022
- 5 min
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
- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
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...
Mariel Cooksey
- Jul 28, 2022
- 6 min
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?
Kat Fuller
- Jun 6, 2022
- 5 min
Book Review: Whiteness Fractured
In the book Whiteness Fractured (2013), sociologist Cynthia Levine-Rasky explains how whiteness is conceptualized in Canada and the...
Amy Mack
- Jun 2, 2022
- 6 min
“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...
Luc Cousineau
- May 2, 2022
- 8 min
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
- Apr 11, 2022
- 8 min
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.
Amy Mack
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
The Freedom Convoy is Done, What's Next for the Far-Right in Canada?
As the Freedom Convoy movement began to dissipate, our group of co-founders began to wonder: what will it be next time?
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