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   From: d@ray   
      
   A Canadian nationalist comedy and speaking tour has sparked a meltdown   
   across the country and led to a series of failed attempts by far-left   
   extremist group Antifa to shut it down.   
      
   The coast-to-coast Diagolon Road Rage Terror Tour event is organised by   
   podcaster and political activist Jeremy MacKenzie and features fellow   
   Canadian nationalists Derek “Rants” Harrison, Alex “Ferryman” Vriend,   
   and   
   Jeremy’s partner Morgan May.   
      
   The tour began with a private show in Ottawa in July 6, followed by meet   
   and greets in Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Regina, with the next event set for   
   Calgary on Saturday night.   
      
   But despite the organisers stressing that the tour is lawful and peaceful   
   with no incidents so far, Antifa has tried to pressure venues into pulling   
   out, corporate media outlets have attacked the group, and local politicians   
   have shared fearmongering posts.   
      
   Mr Vriend told Noticer News: “In response to the tour, the far-left has   
   undertaken a campaign of harassment and intimidation, threatening venues   
   and service providers and attempting to dox attendees and supporters.   
      
   “This has been fuelled additionally by the media and numerous politicians   
   and municipalities.”   
      
   Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath posted a statement about the tour on social   
   media, saying “this group is not welcome here”, but locals commented in   
   response that she should fix the city’s social problems instead of focusing   
   on a comedy show.   
      
   “Have you seen your streets lately? Gotham city over there,” one wrote.   
      
   “Maybe you should worry about the fact that Hamilton looks like the set of   
   Robocop instead of scary mouth sounds on the internet,” said another.   
      
   In its coverage of the tour some Canadian news outlets have called   
   Diagolon, the name of a fictional meme country which is also used to   
   describe Mr Mackenzie’s podcast fanbase, an “extremist” and   
   “far-right”   
   group.   
      
   CityNews approached police for comment about the tour and then used the   
   response to frame an article implying the Ottawa event would be a threat to   
   public order, and quoted a far-left group saying they feared for “minority   
   groups in the capital”. Capital Current published a near-identical piece.   
      
   An article in the Saskatoom StarPhoenix used similar loaded language to   
   describe Diagolon, while a CTV News Ottawa report quoted an “openly queer   
   person” saying they were frightened by the event in the captial, even   
   though it took place without incident.   
      
   None of the articles quoted the tour participants, or mentioned that only   
   disturbances so far have been caused by Antifi activists trying to get   
   venues to pull out and throwing eggs at the group’s RV.   
      
   In a video on Monday posted to his popular X account The Ferryman’s Toll,   
   Mr Vriend told “goblins and spiteful mutants” trying to cancel the tour to   
   give up and leave them alone.   
      
   “Every time you draw attention to this tour, all you do is make it bigger   
   and highlight your own hypocrisy,” he said.   
      
   “So let me give you a piece of advice here – just stop.   
      
   “Let us do the tour, we’re going to be quiet about it, we’re going to be   
   peaceful about it, nobody’s going to get hurt, everybody going to have a   
   good time, and then w’re all going to go home.   
      
   “Or you can keep doing what you’re doing, and the tour will get bigger, and   
   draw more attention, and highlight your hypocrisy, and show you for what   
   you are.”   
      
   During the tour Mr MacKenzie also took photos of a store in Dryden,   
   Ontario, which has been forced to put up signs telling Indian customers not   
   to wash their feet in the sink.   
      
   The Road Rage Terror Tour will visit Vancouver on July 19, Kamloops on July   
   20, Edmonton on July 24, Saskatoon on July 25, Hamilton on July 31 and   
   finish in Halifax on August 4.   
      
   The outrage over the tour comes as police in Montreal were forced to use   
   tear gas on militant pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to leave an   
   illegal encampment at McGill University described as a “a heavily fortified   
   focal point for intimidation and violence” by the university’s president.   
      
      
      
      
      
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