Shannon Carranco

@ShannonPossum

Journalist in MTL. Bylines in , , . Intern at .

Montréal, Québec
Joined October 2013

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    11 hours ago
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  2. 11 hours ago

    8. And these are not your typical skinheads. These are young, educated and tactical men who have unlimited recourses. University grads, blue collar workers. They are the new far right in Canada.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    6. They have guns. They’ve worked their way into the Canadian political system. They discuss their virulent hate for women, Jews, people of colour, Muslims, the LGBTQ+. They dicsuss wanting to exterminate groups of these people.

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    5. Since August of last year, and I have been working with the Globe’s incredible team. Writing about the far-right is not something I thought I’d ever do. But in the climate we’re living in, and the rise of the exrremism in Canada, this is an issue that must be covered.

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  5. 11 hours ago

    4. Jon and I had just finished our second year of journalism at Concordia. I sat in a room at the Globe and pitched to two of Canada’s top editors. I was terrified. But they called the next day and said they wanted the story.

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    3. We had been given another chat by Montreal anti-fascists. But instead of it being Montreal-centric, it was comprised of over 180 virulently racist young men from across Canada.

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    2. A few months later my father drove me down to Toronto to pitch another series of stories on the far-right to .

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  8. 11 hours ago

    1. Almost a year ago today Canada with , using info from a private neo-Nazi chat room that was given to us by MTL Antifa

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    Jan 5

    Inside the takedown of a prolific white nationalist propagandist.

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    12 Nov 2018

    Back in May, , and I unmasked Zeiger, an important ideologue in the global neo-nazi movement as a Montrealer named Gabriel Sohier Chaput. Today, six months later, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

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    28 Aug 2018

    Proud Boys openly admitting to be Nazis

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  12. 2 Aug 2018

    Great article by . A couple was attacked by members of Atalante in MTL. “My girlfriend is Latin American, so they started telling her to go back to her country...“

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    5 Jul 2018

    Business owners are organizing against the poor, trying to block a homeless shelter from moving into their neighbourhood. Let that sink in.

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    9 Jun 2018

    Like many I was surprised to hear about death yesterday. I stayed up late yesterday painting this. Bourdain reminded us to see the humanity in people. That we are all not so different from one another. But that our differences are something to be celebrated.

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    7 Jun 2018

    BREAKING: CBC projects the Progressive Conservatives will form a majority government in Ontario:

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    1 Jun 2018

    This is disgusting and tone deaf and what's worse is the complete lack of a response from on-ice and league officials. Deeply ashamed.

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    25 May 2018

    Doug Ford's original campaign song is as terrible as you'd think.

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    20 May 2018

    Update: looks like the Three Percent militia guy who attacked a woman at yesterday's far-right demo took her wallet out of her pocket in order to photograph her ID card and dox her. Still waiting on the free speech crowd to condemn this activity

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    16 May 2018

    Another Canadian alt right leader's identity revealed. "League of the North" was a host on Canada's largest nazi podcast and ran a coffee company to fund the movement. Great work

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