Residents of a small town outside Calgary are shocked to learn that Canada’s most prominent white supremacist group held its second annual national meeting — where masked group members participated in military-style drills — at a volunteer-run community centre in early July.

“My first reaction is: that scares me,” Lou Kuiack, a Millarville-area resident, told a CBC Calgary reporter. “I didn’t think that would come to our small little town, in our backyard.”

Using visual clues in videos posted by the group, Second Sons Canada, CBC’s visual investigations team identified the location of the gathering roughly 70 kilometres southwest of Calgary, near the hamlet of Millarville, Alta.

Second Sons Canada was formed in 2024 and has chapters across the country.

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    20 days ago

    The problem is that these groups prey on people who get scared because they see muslim protests where people are calling for the destruction of canada and the like and the gov’t really does nothing. These groups pitch the idea that “the gov’t is selling you out to these people and you’re next whitey”.

    Right now there is a very strong feeling of division, where people perceive that the Muslims are out to get people or the Jews are out to get people or the left is out to get people etc etc and the government really allows this kind of thing to happen to an excessive amount. We saw a couple hundred churches burnt over the last few years in Canada and the government basically remains silent. They’ve done nothing substantial to fight anti-Semitism, and they’ve done little to rain in the true extremists amongst the generally peaceful Muslim Community.

    I fear this gets worse before it gets better