An Online Environmental Scan of Right-wing Extremism in Canada

By Mackenzie Hart, Jacob Davey, Eisha Maharasingam-Shah, Ciaran O’Connor, Aoife Gallagher

This report documents the second-year findings of a study by researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) which tracks the online ecosystems used by RWEs (right wing extremists) in Canada. This work is delivered in the context of a larger study into Canadian right-wing extremism (RWE), led by a team of researchers at Ontario Tech University (OTU) in partnership with Michigan State University and the University of New Brunswick. It contains an update to the findings laid out in an interim report published in 2020 which detailed RWE Canadian social media activity throughout 2019. The interim report used the same methodological and definitional framework laid out in this report.

Beirut; Berlin; London; Paris; Washington DC : Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2021. 65p.