1. Some more thoughts on why Canada has so many (scores) of memorials to Nazi collaborators. It's not just a function of immigrant communities but also government and corporate policies.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1284171868790861825 …
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3. This 1995 Sudbury Star article delves into use of Nazis as strikebreakers in 1950s/1960s Canada.pic.twitter.com/NHDqM7Wb9D
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4. Prior to 1950s, East European immigrant communities in Canada leaned left & produced many activists. This podcast investigates how deliberate recruitment of right-wing nationalists was used to change these communities.https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1284175687268655104 …
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5. More broadly, it's not widely understood but Canadian state-sanctioned multiculturalism (often seen as progressive) has a Cold War origin: it was a way to elevate and legitimize the nationalist wing of immigrant communities (as against the internationalists).
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