Ep. 215 - They Asked Me To Join The Militia
Conspiracies! They're out there... and Vice Canada's Mack Lamoureux is getting to the bottom of them.
You name it, he's covered it: The Berenst(a)ein Bears. Hollow Earth Theory. Iraq Stargate...
But what happens when these twisted narratives stop being just kooky, and start getting scary? As extremist right-wing groups grow their presence in Canada, and around the world, there's a personal cost to covering conspiracists.
Mack's 8-month-long investigation into Canada's armed, anti-Islamic "patriot" group — 'the III%ers'— is alarming:
"Connected to the anti-Islam sentiment is a sense of…
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