Canadian nationalist comedy tour sparks nationwide meltdown and failed Antifa intimidation campaign

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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