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Canada designates Proud Boys as terrorist group: SFU experts available
The federal government today the addition of 13 groups to its Criminal Code list of terrorist entities. Notably, this includes four ideologically motivated violent extremist groups: Atomwaffen Division, the Base, the Proud Boys and Russian Imperial Movement.
The announcement comes less than a month after the attack on the U.S. Capitol. SFU experts are available to provide comment:
AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS
GARTH DAVIES, associate professor, criminology
gartd@sfu.ca
Expertise: terrorism, cyber-terrorism, radicalization and recruitment to terrorism, counter-terrorism, violent extremism, communities and crime
CANDYCE KELSHALL, adjunct professor, criminology
cmkelshall@gmail.com | ckelshall@casisvancouver.ca
Expertise: preventing the normalization of extremism space, terrorism, intelligence, radicalization, policing, disinformation
ANTHONY BURTON, PhD student, communication
647.234.8639 |ab@anthbrtn.com
Expertise: the role of misogyny/masculinity in these spaces, the alt-right in Canada and the U.S.
SAMIR GANDESHA, associate professor, humanities
604.726.6704 | gandesha@sfu.ca
Expertise: The 鈥渇lawed鈥� nature of the legislation and the 鈥渇alse equation of left and right鈥� under 鈥渆xtremism"
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MELISSA SHAW, SFU Communications & Marketing
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca
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