Ottawa school board speaks out against “increasing trend” of extremists targeting schools after students told to “shelter-in-place”

Just when you thought extreme right wing rhetoric couldn’t get any lower … they start targeting children at their schools to hold their protests

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“The biggest names in the Canadian far-right have pivoted to this issue,” Canadian Anti-Hate Network Deputy Director Elizabeth Simons told PressProgress.

“Many of the networks and influencers involved in the anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate targeted at school boards and drag events got their start, or at least their notoriety, during the Freedom Convoy and the COVID conspiracy theory movement.”