Hundreds of yellow vest protesters were met with counterprotesters at the Alberta Legislature and Churchill Square on Dec. 15 in Edmonton. ( Omar Mosleh / StarMetro Edmonton )It’s a Dec. 15 rally of the yellow vest movement, which came to Canada a couple weeks before. That’s at the heart of Canada’s yellow vest movement, says Jared Wesley, a political scientist at the University of Alberta. The Yellow Vest Canada Facebook page, which has more than 100,000 members, is particularly toxic, said Canadian Anti-Hate Network director Evan Balgord, a researcher who has been tracking the yellow vest movement nationwide. A gathering of supporters of the yellow vest movement in Edmonton, Alta.

Source: thestar January 05, 2019 03:22 UTC