Timeline - Combined (for this blog post: Stirring it up again)
1949, September 25 - Wolfgang Droege born in Bavaria, Germany. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1958, February - Grant Bristow born in Winnipeg. [Link to this item]
--Source: The Walrus, September 2004: "Front Man"
1960, August - Warren Kinsella born in Montreal. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, "Warren Kinsella"
1963 - Droege immigrates to Canada. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1968, April 5 - Ernst Zundel runs for the leadership of the federal Liberal Party and drops out after the first ballot. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entries, "Ernst Zundel", "Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968"
1974 - Droege joins white supremacist movement, first joining Western Guard, and then Ku Klux Klan. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1974, December 17 - Elisse Hategan born in Romania. [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1975 - Droege convicted of public mischief. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1977 - Ernst Zundel starts a publishing house named Samisdat, printing pamphlets praising Adolf Hitler and questioning the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, "Ernst Zundel"
1981, April - Droege imprisoned in U.S. for planned invasion and overthrow of government of Dominica. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1983, June - Droege released from prison. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1984, July 16 - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) begins. It was created by the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau, through Solicitor General Bob Kaplan. It is set up in the wake of revelations that the intelligence arm of the RCMP has participated in illegal acts to subvert legitimate political dissent. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry: "CSIS"
--Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia: Inquiry Into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Commission of
--Source: Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Jul 13, 1984: "Security agency starts Monday"
1984, September 4 - 33rd General Election. Progressive Conservatives, 211. LIberals 40. NDP 30. [Link to this item]
--Source: Parliament of Canada, "General Election Results since 1867"
Wikipedia entry "Canadian federal election, 1984"
1984, November - Droege arrested in Huntsville, Alabama for cocaine and weapons possession. Given 13 year sentence. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996
1986 - Grant Bristow, a man with a long criminal history in the United States, begins work for CSIS as a security officer at the South African embassy in Ottawa. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Aug 11, 2004: "CSIS mole breaks silence"
--Source: League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada: "The Heritage Front Report: 1994"
1986, August 20 - Canadian government expels South African diplomat for attempting to recruit Bristow to gather info on Anti-Apartheid movement. [Link to this item]
--Source: The Walrus, September 2004: "Front man"
1987 - Elisse Hategan, age 11, immigrates with her parents to Canada from Romania. [Link to this item]
--Source: Globe and Mail, Feb. 2, 1993: "Scenes from the far right"
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1987, April - Neo-Nazi Nationalist Party's visit to Libya for peace conference. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Sept. 6, 1989: "Toronto man jailed in Chicago after probation bars his entry"
--Source: For date of conference, Ottawa Citizen, Aug 9, 1988, "Local travel agency 'intelligence front' for Libya, says FBI" written by Warren Kinsella
1987, May 31 - Creation of the Reform Party of Canada, a right-wing, populist, Western-based alternative to the Progressive Conservative Party. [Link to this item]
--Source: Southam News, May 31, 1987: "Delegates from four western provinces vote to... "
1987, September 12 - Reid Morden, 46, a deputy cabinet secretary, is named as head of CSIS after Ted Finn resigns for CSIS bungling wiretap warrant on Sikh terrorists. Morden's qualifications for the job are not given. Handpicked by Mulroney, he is "the first security service director in Canadian history with virtually no experience in security and intelligence." [Link to this item]
--Source: Montreal Gazette, Sept. 12, 1987 - "Spy boss quits over flawed warrant; Intelligence Service supplied shaky"
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 18, 1987: "New security chief no spook"
1987, Nov. 1 - Preston Manning becomes the leader of the Reform Party. [Link to this item]
--Source: Montreal Gazette, Nov. 2, 1987: "Reform Party chooses leader"
1988, September 22 - CSIS director Reid Morden admits agency asked Charlie Greenwell of CJOH-TV in Ottawa to spy on Pierre Beauregard of La Presse Canadienne, and on Normand Lester of Radio-Canada because of stories on the agency. [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 22, 1988: "CSIS admits it asked reporter to spy on peers"
1988, October 22 - Reid Morden states he "believes CSIS's interest in Canadian dissidents is a non-issue: 'That's not where we are, but that's what gets Canadian excited because it's Canadians involved and that's where people feel CSIS is going to touch their lives directly.'" [Link to this item]
--Source: Windsor Star, Oct. 22, 1988: "CSIS surveillance of Canadian dissidents queried"
1988, November - Grant Bristow appears at Nationalist Party meeting at the house of Don Andrews. [Link to this item]
--Source: The Walrus, September 2004: "Front man"
1989, January - Doug Lewis appointed by Brian Mulroney as Minister of Justice. [Link to this item]
1989, January 14- Toronto Star ombudsman defends paper against a Richard Warman's attack on the paper for its "glaring generalization" in its description of "skinheads" as all racists. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Jan 14, 1989: "Did father's suicide prove guilt in murder?"
1989, April - Droege paroled from prison in California. Deported to Canada. Meets Grant Bristow within two weeks. Bristow is a security investigator. [Link to this item]
--Source: Globe and Mail, Sept. 6, 1989 "U.S. to deport white supremacist returning from Libya to Toronto"
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996, Zundel case
1989, April - Doug Lewis also appointed Government House leader. [Link to this item]
1989, July - Muammar al-Qaddafi invites members of Canada's Nationalist Party to attend 20th anniversary of his revolution. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
1989, August - 18 people associated with the Nationalist Party of Canada members travel to Libya, including Grant Bristow and Droege. [Link to this item]
--Source: CP story in Toronto Star, Sept 5, 1989: "Toronto man held after visit to Libya"
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
1989, September 4 - Returning from Libya, Droege detained at O'Hare airport in Chicago. Bristow arranges for lawyer and pays lawyer $1,000 (other money from Nationalist Party). Droege released after 48 hours. Afterwards, Bristow urges Droege to start a new "racial nationalist" movement, more modern than "white supremacist" movement. [Link to this item]
--Source: CP story in Toronto Star, Sept 5, 1989: "Toronto man held after visit to Libya"
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
1989, September 25 - Droege, Bristow, Gerry Lincoln create the Heritage Front. Droege is leader, Lincoln is secretary and Bristow is in charge of security. Money to create the organization came from three founding members--Droege affidavit states that Bristow contributed the most. Bristow begins contacting white supremacists around Canada via computer (including Albertan Terry Long). Begins paying Droege's travel expenses, including flights, rental cars, meals and hotels. Bristow pays for printing and copying expenses for Up Front, the Heritage Front magazine, and contributes money for telephone bills. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
1989, October 2 - The Heritage Front name is officially registered by James Dawson with Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Affairs in Ontario. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996, Zundel case
1990 - Warren Kinsella becomes senior advisor to Jean Chretien, new opposition leader. [Link to this item]
1990, April - Doug Lewis becomes Minister of Transport. Kim Campbell succeeds him at Justice. [Link to this item]
1990, December 8 - Heritage Front holds its first open meeting, a "Martyrs Day Rally." Sixty-five people turn up. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Sun, Nov. 29, 1992: "Canada's neo-Nazis--White rights groups readying for racial war"
1991, April 21 - Doug Lewis appointed Solicitor General in cabinet shuffle. [Link to this item]
--Source: Vancouver Sun. Vancouver, B.C.: Apr 22, 1991: "The Tory cabinet after Sunday's shuffle"
1991, May 27 - Al Overfield volunteers to provide security at Reform Beaches-Woodbine riding association meeting. He uses Grant Bristow, Wolfgang Droege and others. [Link to this item]
--Source: SIRC report, Dec. 9, 1994
1991, June 19 - First Droege interview to appear in media about the Heritage Front, in a Rosie DiManno Toronto Star column. She reports, "Droege claims to have a mailing list of about 300 people." He insists he is not a "racist." In reference to the Reform Party, Droege is quoted as saying, "They have given us some hope." Bernie Farber, assistant national director for community relations with the Canadian Jewish Congress, is quoted; "Jews may not be at the top of their hate list, but we're certainly on it somewhere. The point is that we are a human rights organization and we're concerned about all minority groups.") [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, June 19, 1991: "Ex-mercenary aims for country 'uniquely' white"
1991, September - First public Heritage Front meeting, Toronto. Paul Fromm, teacher and head of Canadians for Foreign Aide Reform, is a guest speaker. Bristow speaks about fundraising to fight the Canadian Human Rights Commission. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996, Zundel case
1991, Sept. 18 - Reid Morden appointed as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in addition to his CSIS duties. [Link to this item]
--Source: Calgary Herald, Sept. 18, 1991: "Bureaucrat reassigned"
1991, fall - Elisse Hategan (aliases Elisse Deschner, Elisse O'Hardigan), age 16, joins The Heritage Front. [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1991, September 20 - Scarborough, Ontario SWAT team searches car occupied by Grant Bristow of the Heritage Front and Sean Maguire, 43, of Hayden Lake, Idaho (Aryan Nations headquarters). Guns found in trunk. Maguire voluntarily returns to U.S. Bristow calls Droege to police station. There he tells Droege the police can't make anything stick and Bristow is released. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Sept. 21, 1991: "Metro police arrest white supremacist"
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996, Zundel case
1991, late fall - Elisse Hategan is introduced to Grant Bristow by Wolfgang Droege. "It was in 1991, about a month or so after I had joined. [Bristow] had been away, or he wasn't very active at that point in time, and then he made a comeback and I was introduced. He was introduced to me as the other leader of the Heritage Front, one of the founders." [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1991, October 2 - Reid Morden ends term as head of CSIS. Raymond Protti, a career bureaucrat who worked for Mulroney in the Privy Counsel Office, is appointed as head. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Oct. 2, 1991: "Career bureaucrat to head spy agency"
--Source: Hamilton Spectator, Nov 29, 1991: "Stop 'silly spy games' our new spy boss told"
1992, January-February - Radio campaign in riding of Solicitor General Doug Lewis (PC) accuses Reform "hidden agenda." [Link to this item]
--Source: Edmonton Journal, Sep 17, 1994: "Evidence suggests dirty deeds behind party troubles"
1992, January 22 - Large Reform rally of over 4,000 in Pickering, Ontario. Alan Overfield provides security and brings Droege, Bristow and Peter Mitrevski. Bristow is videotaped by a Heritage Front member escorting Manning to the stage. [Link to this item]
--Source: Edmonton Journal, Sep 17, 1994: "Evidence suggests dirty deeds behind party troubles"
1992, January 23 - Jean Chretien issues a seven-page letter which supports Sheila Copps' assertion two months earlier that the Reform party is "racist." [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Jan 23, 1992: "Chretien attacks Reform agenda"
1992, January 26 - "Manning continued to draw the largest crowds of any politician in Canada, as the curious, frustrated and converted paid $5 each to hear 'the new guy.' In Pickering, he drew 4,500 to the cavernous Metro East Convention Centre; in Hamilton, 2,300 brought the Hamilton Place Great Hall to near capacity; and more than 600 overflowed a 7 a.m. breakfast meeting in Oakville." [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Jan. 26, 1992: "Manning on tour draws big crowds and some doubts"
1992, January 29 - Rodney Bobiwash of the Native Canadian Centre asks the mayor's committee on race relations to "support the native group's request for the Canadian Human Rights Commission to pursue criminal charges against those running the telephone line." [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, January 29 - "Phone line racist, natives say"
1992, February 28 - Toronto Star story noting the expulsion of Nicola Polinuk, James Dawson, Wolfgang Droege, and Peter Mitrevski. Story also notes Reform will no longer use services of Alan Overfield for security. "He used Droege as security help at two Reform party meetings in the Metro area." From this point on until the end of the Reform Party (and even to the end of the Canadian Alliance), they will be dogged by accusations of racism. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Feb. 28, 1992: "Reform party probes racist connections"
1992, February 29 - "Reform policy chief Stephen Harper said after yesterday's news conference here that the party fears as many as 20 neo-Nazis, all part of an organized group, may have joined the party in the Toronto area." Reform leader Manning "said he's particularly interested in determining whether it's possible other political parties, in an attempt to discredit Reform, are in some way behind the recruitment and then leaking the information to the media." [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Feb. 29, 1992: Toronto Star story "No room for racists, Reform chief says"
1992, February 29 - "When [Reform] party officials began contacting people associated with undesirable groups on whose behalf the party had received membership applications, they found at least five of these people were not aware of the applications and claimed to have no interest in joining the party." [Link to this item]
--Source: Globe and Mail, Feb. 29, 1992: "Manning fears plot behind racist infiltration of Reform Party"
1992, May - Publication of Unholy Alliances: Terrorists, Extremists, Front Companies, and the Libyan Connection in Canada, by Warren Kinsella. (Bristow, who traveled to Libya with the Nationalist Party of Canada in 1989, is not mentioned in this book.) [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, May 19, 1992: "Watch for spate of books on politicians"
1992, July - Solicitor General Doug Lewis is alleged to have received a top secret report on government spy Bristow engaging in possible illegal activity, according to a CBC fifth estate program of 1994. [Link to this item]
--Source: Globe and Mail, Oct. 6, 1994: "Not told of report on CSIS, Gray says"
1992, August 2 - Dave Todd, Southam News Review of Kinsella's Unholy Alliances. Todd calls the book "almost total nonsense." [Link to this item]
--Source: Edmonton Journal, Aug. 2, 1992 "How preposterous!--Volume on Libyan strongman almost total nonsense"
1992, August 27 - Supreme Court decision re: Ernst Zundel and spreading of false news. [Link to this item]
--Source: http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1992/1992rcs2-731/1992rcs2-731.html
1992, August 27 - Hamilton Spectator story -- "Mr. Droege, a member of the Heritage Front, said many people in his group are members of the Reform party. Mr. Droege was expelled from the Reform party earlier this year because of his association with the front, which has been labeled neo-Nazi." [Link to this item]
--Source: Hamilton Spectator, Aug. 27: "Reform Party denies link to Heritage Front"
1992, fall - After the Supreme Court decision, Droege and Bristow travel to Victoria to meet with Zundel's lawyer Doug Christie (at Johnnie's Restaurant, 893 Fort Street, near Quadra Street) With Bristow present, Droege tells Christie that Bristow has a list of addresses and phone numbers of prominent Jews and Bristow thinks it's time to "take the war to the Jews. Grant is a security advisor and private detective and he got the list." [Link to this item]
--Source: Doug Christie, Testimony, Zundel deportation hearing, 2004
1992, November 7 - Firebombing of Jewish activist Monna Zentner's house. "Zentner was among 100 angry demonstrators who met Irving when he tried to address a crowd in Kitchener on Saturday. Hours after the rally, the house next to Zentner`s residence went up in flames. Zentner owns the house and was turning it into office space for her psychotherapy practice." The next day, the Ontario Fire Marshal's Office confirmed it was arson. [Link to this item]
--Source: CP, Calgary Herald, Nov. 9, 1993: "House blaze blamed on Nazis"
--Source: Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Nov 10, 1992: "Kitchener fire called arson"
1992, November 29 - A picture of Grant Bristow appears in a Toronto Sun story by Bill Dunphy. Bristow is identified as a Heritage Front member. "In the fall of 1991, Metro police ETF officers and immigration forces swooped down on a car in Scarboro [sic] and arrested an Aryan Nations enforcer, Sean Maguire. In the car--driven by Front member Grant Bristow--they found a sawed-off shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, binoculars, handcuffs and a police radio scanner." [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Sun, Nov. 29, 1992: "Canada's neo-Nazis--White rights groups readying for racial war"
1992, December - Bristow begins organizing a retaliatory harassment campaign against protestors and those harassing the Heritage Front. Bristow trains Heritage Front member Elisse Hategan for phone line. "Starting in the winter of 1992, I first became aware of a massive terror campaign on our group's part, targeting anti-racist groups and individuals. It was launched by the head of the Heritage Front intelligence, Grant Bristow. Front members and supporters were approached and encouraged to go after designated targets. I was one of those approached by Grant Bristow." [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1993, January-February - Memberships to Heritage Front are issued. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
1993, January 25 - Canadian Human Rights Commission hearing about the Heritage Front phone line begins. Anti-Racist Action holds a rally in Queen's Park, but a riot breaks out. Two are arrested. "The ARA is a collection of Trotskyites, Marxists and other left-wingers who insist that force should be used to deal with fascist groups." [Link to this item]
--Source: Web of Hate by Warren Kinsella, 1994 HarperCollins, page 245
1993, January - Elisse Hategan is charged with inciting hatred for passing out a flyer comparing an anti-racist to a gorilla. Flyer included anti-racist's address. Bristow provided the address. [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1993, May 7 - Bristow contacts the President of the Jewish Students' Network posing as an Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Press reporter using the alias "Trevor Graham." The JSN president checks up on him and finds no reporter by that name. A few days later the president goes to the office of the Canadian Jewish Congress and with Bernie Farber's assistance looks through an album of known racists. She identifies Trevor Graham as Grant Bristow from the photo in the Nov. 29, 1992 Toronto Sun story. Farber calls Kinsella and alerts him. Kinsella complains to the Ottawa Police who tell him to call the Toronto police. Kinsella faxes the Toronto police with a complaint. From the SIRC report: "The basis for the complaint was that: 'Bristow had claimed to be working for Kinsella in researching Kinsella's latest book; enquiring about the organization's knowledge of skinheads and the White Supremacist movements. Bristow also requested access to their files.'" (Note: Eleven days after the exposure of Bristow, Bernie Farber in Vancouver Province article will be paraphrased as saying the contact was him directly. Kinsella is in the article confirming Farber's account.) [Link to this item]
--Source: SIRC report, Dec. 9, 1994: "The Heritage Front Affair - Section 5.10.3 The Jewish Student Network Incident"
--Source: Toronto Sun, Nov. 29, 1992: "Canada's neo-Nazis--White rights groups readying for racial war"
--Source: Vancouver Province, Aug. 25, 1994: "MPs to probe Bristow links: CSIS informant under fire"
1993, June 5 - Computer stolen from Heritage Front affiliate, Church of the Creator. Night of the theft, Bristow is missing from Heritage Front meeting, the first he missed. The day after, Bristow accuses Tyrone Mason of theft. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
--Source: Tyrone Mason affidavit, May 9, 1996 Federal Court of Canada
1993, June 8 - Church of the Creator members Drew Maynard, Eric Fischer and his brother Elkar (Carl) pick up Tyrone Mason in white van. They handcuff and blindfold Mason, beat him, place plastic bags over his head and threaten him with a syringe filled with Windex to obtain info about the stolen computer. They release him after being convinced he had nothing to do with the theft. Mason goes to the police and Maynard and the Fischers are arrest that day. (Afterwards, Eric Fischer will tell Mason that Burdi "fingered him" for the stolen computer. After that, Bristow tells Eric Fischer it was George Burdi who stole computer, and tells Mason to lie to the police, saying the beating was an "initiation" into the "White Berets".) [Link to this item]
--Source: Tyrone Mason affidavit, May 9, 1996 Federal Court of Canada
1993, June 11 - 250 anti-racists march to Toronto's east side to Gary Schipper's house because they believed his is the voice on the Heritage Front phone line message. They throw rocks and human excrement at his house, smashing windows and doors. A tricycle is thrown through the front window. Afterwards, Bristow tries to whip up Heritage Front members to retaliate. "During the events of June 11, 1993, while members of the Heritage Front went on to confront anti-racists on College Street, at a bar known as Sneaky Dees, Bristow had other plans. He wanted people to go down and attack individuals in their houses and their workplaces to retaliate against what happened at Garry Schipper's house during that night. In some ways, the fact that members followed other Front leaders that night avoided a potential major war on the streets of Toronto, and possible arson." Grant Bristow "on the other hand, suggested a number of home addresses of people--I knew who those people were--and also a workplace to go and smear excrement on and break the windows, fire-bomb the place." [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1993, July 1 - Heritage Front member Elisse Hategan tries to quit the phone harassment campaign. Secretly, Hategan contacts Canadian Centre on Racism and Prejudice and begins taking notes on the Heritage Front. Bristow learns of notes and tries to get Droege to authorize a break-in at Hategan house to retrieve notes. Bristow threatens her with a "white van ride" (beating and death threat implied). [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
--Source: Droege affidavit, April 26, 1996, Federal Court of Canada
1993, late summer - Bristow gives Tyrone Mason and James Dawson dates and addresses where Anti-Racist Action is to meet. Gives them photo equipment and instructs them to spy. Specifically, Bristow tries to get Mason to spy on Ken Thomas of Anti-Racist Action. [Link to this item]
--Source: Tyrone Mason affidavit, May 9, 1996 Federal Court of Canada
1993, August 14 - Second fire at home of Jewish activist Monna Zentner causing $240,000 in damage. She was threatened in May with a second fire. "'He (the caller) said there would be a second fire on Nov. 7 (the anniversary of a previous fire at her house) and he hopes the Jews would burn and he hoped I would die too in the fire,' said Monna Zentner." [Link to this item]
--Source: Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Aug. 16, 1993: "Activist suspects arson: Kitchener home destroyed in second fire"
--Source: Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Aug. 19, 1993: "Zentner tells of earlier fire threats"
1993, September 1 - Elisse Hategan signs affidavits on criminal activity of Heritage Front. [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1993, October - Warren Kinsella completes interviews for his Web of Hate chapter on Heritage Front. "Interviews were conducted between May 1988 and October 1993." [Link to this item]
--Source: Web of Hate, Chapter Notes, 8. "The Wolfie and Georgie Show", page 368
1993, October 24 - Ernst Zundel applies for Canadian citizenship. [Link to this item]
--Source: Kulaszka affidavit, March 4, 1996, Federal Court of Canada, Zundel case
1993, October 25 - Canada's thirty-fifth general election. Results: Liberals 177 seats, BQ 54, Reform 52, NDP 9, PC 2, Ind. 1. [Link to this item]
--Source: Parliament of Canada, "General Election Results since 1867"
1993, early November - Elisse Hategan's affidavits are forwarded to Attorney General of Ontario. "I had a meeting with members of the Ontario Provincial Police about the contents of these statements. Despite these meetings and affidavits, no real investigation or prosecution took place." [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1993, November 8 - Toronto Metro police attempt sting operation at Mason's house--wire tapping--targeting Bristow, Paul Graham and James Dawson for witness tampering. Bristow avoids meeting at last minute. [Link to this item]
--Source: Tyrone Mason affidavit, May 9, 1996 Federal Court of Canada
1993, November 24 - Elisse Hategan makes public her defection from the Heritage Front. [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1993, December 13 - Elisse Hategan blames the Heritage Front for the fires at Jewish activist Monna Zentner's home. [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 13, 1993: "Former member says group torched home of anti-racist"
1994, March - Elisse Hagen testifies against Wolfgang Droege, Garry Schipper and Ken Barker in a contempt of court proceeding. "My testimony also contributed to the expulsion of Becky Primrose from the ranks of the Reform Party of Canada." [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1994, March - End of Bristow's assignment, CSIS's Operation Governor. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, "Grant Bristow"
1994, March - Elisse Hagen testifies against Wolfgang Droege, Gary Shipper and Ken Barker. Her testifying at this hearing makes it apparent to few that Bristow is probably a CSIS mole. "Now, was Mr. Bristow with CSIS at that time? I don't think so. However, it was clear that someone, somewhere in the police apparatus, was protecting Mr. Bristow. I was sure of that, and when we met him in March, when Ms Hategan testified, it was obvious." [Link to this item]
--Source: Martin Thériault, director, Canadian Centre on Racism and Prejudice, Testimony before parliamentary committee, June 13, 1995
1994, March 11 - Police put the investigation into the firebombing of Jewish activist Monna Zentner's home on hold because Elisse Hategan did not meet with them to discuss her Dec. statements in the press. [Link to this item]
--Source: Montreal Gazette, Mar 11, 1994: "Firebomb probe put 'on hold'"
1994, March - Publication of Web of Hate. Chapter 8 on the Heritage Front is longest in the book, 52 pages. Droege is covered in depth. Gerry Lincoln is mentioned in the book five times. Grant Bristow's name does not appear once, anywhere in the book, even though he is a founding member of the Heritage Front and a nearly 2,000 word news story (by Bill Dunphy), with photo, identifying Bristow as a Front member appeared in the Toronto Sun in 1992, As the SIRC report will reveal Kinsella was aware of the Sun article and the name of Grant Bristow and even attempted to lay a police complaint against him. The Sean Maguire incident is not mentioned in the book (in which an Aryan Nations enforcer caught with Bristow in 1991 with guns) even though it was reported in the press. The '92 and '93 Zentner fire bombings blamed on Nazis are not mentioned, though they were reported in the press. In the notes to Chapter 8 on the Heritage Front, Kinsella writes, he completed his research in October, 1993, so these events occurred well before the research for Web of Hate was completed. Later in August after Bristow is exposed, Kinsella will say he made a police complaint about Bristow for posing as an Ottawa Citizen reporter helping Kinsella to Bernie Farber, a May 7, 1993 incident described in the Dec. 9, 1994 SIRC report. So, a known member of the Heritage Front seeks information from a well-known Jewish organization and the incident is not mentioned in the book? Also, Kinsella claims in Chapter 8 that the Heritage Front has "2,000 in all" members and supporters, but provides no documentation for this. [Link to this item]
--Source: Quill & Quire. Toronto: Mar 1994. Vol. 60, Iss. 3; pg. 28
--Source: Web of Hate, first edition, 1994, HarperCollins
1994, March 19 - Edna Paris, reviewing Web of Hate, concludes that Kinsella failed to prove his case that white supremacy is a significant threat, but "Kinsella is more effective in his final conclusion, where he defends existing hate laws (he offers a convincing rebuttal to the stale civil libertarian defence of absolutely unfettered free speech) and proposes other non-legislative means of stopping violent hate groups, including attacking perpetrators in their wallets with civil suits." [Link to this item]
--Source: The Globe and Mail, Mar 19, 1994, "Study of Canada's far right leaves some unanswered questions"
1994, March 20 - In a review of Web of Hate, Charles Gordon uses numbers from the book (including Kinsella's claim that Heritage Front has 2,000 members and associates) to conclude that white supremacy is not as ubiquitous as Kinsella claims. [Link to this item]
--Source: March 20, 1994, Ottawa Citizen: "Research, organization are strong, but analysis is weak in this impressive examination of CANADA'S GROWING WEB OF HATE"
1994, March 27 to April 2 - Web of Hate enters the weekly bestseller list at number 8. A week later it will climb to number 2, ahead of Trudeau's memoirs. [Link to this item]
--Source: The Globe and Mail, Apr 9, 1994: "National Bestseller List"
1994, April - Bristow tells Droege charges against Hategan will be dropped. [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996, Zundel case
1994, May 13 - SIRC informs House of Commons committee that they are forbidden by law from spying on political parties. Head of SIRC, John Bassett says, "I would be very surprised if CSIS undertook any intelligence activity which could be interpreted as impinging on the political rights or activity of a recognized political party in this country." [Link to this item]
--Source: Hamilton Spectator, May 14, 1994: "Political-spy payoffs called 'stupid' idea Chief monitor defends CSIS"
1994, May 31 - Raymond Protti ends term as head of CSIS. Ward Elcock appointed. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, May 25, 1994: "Ottawa picks top Mountie, new boss of spy agency"
1994, August 12 - Bristow contacted by Toronto Sun's Bill Dunphy, who says he is going to expose him. Bristow tries to kill the story. [Link to this item]
--Source: The Walrus, September 2004: "Front Man"
1994, August 14 - Bristow exposed by Toronto Sun reporter Bill Dunphy. "Intelligence sources have confirmed he was acting as a paid informant from the first day. . . Canadian taxpayers, through CSIS, were unknowingly paying for someone to build the Heritage Front - the leading organization in a movement CSIS would eventually identify as a national security threat, a terrorist menace." Kevin Thomas of Anti-Racist Action says Bristow contacted him using the name Rob Tafner "and was supposedly from the Ottawa Citizen." Bristow told Dunphy, because Droege is facing aggravated assault charges and facing imprisonment, "he'd have to take over. 'And that couldn't be allowed to happen,' Bristow said, referring to his paymasters." The gist of Dunphy's story is that Bristow was playing both sides against each other, the Heritage Front and Anti-Racist Action, in order to "stir it up" causing sometimes violent confrontations in public. Dunphy uses named sources, mostly from Anti-Racist Action, to give examples of this. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Sun, Aug. 14, 1994: "Stir it up--Grant Bristow didn't just spy on the Heritage Front--He used Taxpayers' money to build up the racist organization"
1994, August 15 - Ottawa Citizen story in which Hal Joffe, national community relations chairman for Canadian Jewish Congress, calls for a full public inquiry. [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Aug 15, 1994: "JEWISH CONGRESS: CSIS ties spark demand for probe"
1994, August 15 - Story about libel suit against Web of Hate publisher HarperCollins by Roger Rocan of Victoria. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Aug 15, 1994: "No-other-readings rule riles author"
1994, August 25 - Eleven days after the exposure of Grant Bristow as a CSIS agent, a story appears in the Vancouver Province story in which Bernie Farber says Bristow had contacted him in the past posing as an Ottawa Citizen reporter doing research for Warren Kinsella--similar to Ken Thomas' allegation on Aug. 14 in the Sun. In this Province story, Kinsella says he filed a police complaint and that the police investigated but laid no charges. No dates for these events are given. The December SIRC report will probe this incident and pin the date down to May, 1993, though its account is slightly different. (The source of the names, addresses and phone numbers of prominent Jews that Bristow gave to the Heritage Front (see also here) is unknown. Elisse Hategan blamed the attacks on Monna Zentner's home on the Heritage Front, but I don't think that allegation was ever proven.) [Link to this item]
--Source: Vancouver Province, Aug. 25, 1994: "MPs to probe Bristow links: CSIS informant under fire"
--Source: SIRC report, Dec. 9, 1994: "The Heritage Front Affair - Section 5.10.3 The Jewish Student Network Incident"
1994, September 2 - Ottawa Citizen column by Warren Kinsella in which he defends the use of infiltrators like Grant Bristow, calling it "eminently reasonable." Even though a CSIS agent has attempted to use Kinsella's name to get information on Jewish organizations to hand to the Heritage Front, Kinsella evinces no outrage. He mentions Bristow's name ten times but does not write anything about his police complaint against him. With regard to Bristow and Droege, Kinsella writes, "Their relative poverty did not, however, prevent Droege and Bristow from building a neo-Nazi organization that was larger and better-organized than anything Canada has seen in the post-war years." [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 2, 1994: "Police investment in informants earns good dividends"
1994, September 10 - Toronto Star story: "Exclusive: CSIS spy snapped in Libya: Portrait of the vanishing spy: Grant Bristow was a man with great contacts and plenty of money to spend." [Link to this item]
1994, September 12 - Investigation of the Bristow affair begins by House of Commons Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on National Security. [Link to this item]
--Source: Kulaszka affidavit, March 4, 1996, Federal Court of Canada, Zundel case
1994, September 29 - Opposition motion condemning government for not setting up a Royal Commission to look into the Bristow affair. [Link to this item]
--Source: Kulaszka affidavit, March 4, 1996, Federal Court of Canada, Zundel case
1994, September 30 - Elisse Hategan complains in the press about the government protecting Grant Bristow, but not her. "Elisse Hategan, who defected from the Toronto-based Heritage Front last year, said she's given sworn statements that involve Grant Bristow in harassment campaigns, but nothing has been done." [Link to this item]
--Source: Edmonton Journal, Sept. 30, 1994: "Police protecting CSIS mole, woman claims"
1994, October 4 - CBC's fifth estate broadcasts report "that the government-appointed CSIS watchdog, called the Security Intelligence Review Committee, wrote a top-secret 1992 report to Mr. Gray's Conservative predecessor, Douglas Lewis, warning that Mr. Bristow was involved in 'unlawful activities' that could 'generate controversy.'" [Link to this item]
--Source: Globe and Mail, Oct. 6, 1994: "Not told of report on CSIS, Gray says"
1994, October 8 - Jewish activist Monna Zentner publicly questions what the government knew about the fire bombings of her house. "If CSIS or the federal government knew, through Bristow, that violence was likely, that people would be hurt, Zentner believes she should have been warned or protected. 'I expect Nazis to act in ways that aren't human," she said. "But I don't expect the government, my government, to help them. What are they doing paying people to hurt others?"' [Link to this item]
--Source: Kitchener-Waterloo Record, October 8, 1994: "Informant's link to criminal acts needs explaining"
1994, October 17 - Federal Solicitor General Herb Gray promises to look into allegations by CBC's fifth estate that "former Conservative solicitor general Doug Lewis received a secret warning in 1992 that Grant Bristow, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service informant and white supremacist, was involved in possible 'unlawful activities.' Lewis declined to comment on the report." [Link to this item]
--Source: Maclean's, October 17: "New spy revelations"
1994, October 19 - "Former Tory solicitor general Doug Lewis says his government never ordered Canada's spy agency to infiltrate or discredit the Reform Party. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service also did not ignore plans by racists to commit illegal acts, Lewis told a Commons committee investigating allegations of CSIS wrongdoing Tuesday." Lewis went on, "In fact nothing improper was done by CSIS or any other individual. No laws were broken, no controversy ensued." [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Oct 19, 1994: "CSIS had 'no orders' to spy on Reform Party; Ex-solicitor general attacks media"
1994, November - SIRC committee contacts Droege and Droege meets with them for "three to four hours." [Link to this item]
--Source: Droege affidavit, Federal Court of Canada, April 26, 1996, Zundel case
1994, December 9 - SIRC report to the Solicitor General of Canada "The Heritage Front Affair" exonerates Bristow. Finds the former Solicitor General quite innocent. Essentially what the report does is deflect and misdirect in an attempt to present the discrediting of the Reform Party as a neo-Nazi plot. SIRC cites Web of Hate as one its primary sources on the history of white supremacists and Kinsella's police complaint is probed, but Kinsella is not interviewed for the report. Elisse Hategan declined to be interviewed by SIRC. [Link to this item]
--Source: Link to SIRC report reproduction: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/canadian/sirc/heritage-front/
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1994, December 15 - SIRC report tabled in HOC. Opposition calls it a "whitewash." [Link to this item]
--Source: Kulaszka affidavit, March 4, 1996, Federal Court of Canada, Zundel case
1995, February 20 - Toronto Sun reports on video released by Heritage Front "The Best of Bristow" showing "Bristow being introduced as a 'co-founder' of the white supremacist Front and exhorting followers to confront and harass anti-racists. The newspaper also says the tapes show Bristow urging Heritage Front members to use fake group names when making death threats, throwing rocks through windows, or firebombing porches. He also suggests Heritage Front members pose as reporters. The video was apparently shot before it was revealed that Bristow was an informant for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service paid to infiltrate the Heritage Front. An investigation of Bristow's seven-year link to the intelligence service exonerated him." [Link to this item]
--Source: Edmonton Journal, Feb. 20, 1995: "CSIS mole had high profile, video suggests"
1995, April - Canadian media find Grant Bristow living in St. Albert, just north of Edmonton, under the name of Nathan Brown in a "$190,000 home with a three-car garage in an exclusive neighbourhood, and drawing a $3,000-a-month government allowance. " They camp out on his doorstep for a couple of days but Bristow and family don't turn up, so they leave. After the media leaves, Bristow and his family return home "and resumed their quiet, middle-class life, attending block parties, watching their son's soccer games, and even distributing petitions opposing a new neighbourhood development." Not too worried about the neo-Nazi bogeyman, apparently. [Link to this item]
--Source: Alberta Report, May 5, 1995: "Postscript"
--Source: Saturday Night, Oct. 1996: "Spies"
1995, June 8 - Richard Warman runs in Ontario provincial election in Simcoe-Centre for the Green Party, placing fifth.
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, June 9, 1995: "Riding by riding results in Ontario"
--Wikipedia entry, "Ontario General Election 1995"
1995, June 13 - "On several occasions I personally witnessed [Bristow's] role in providing personal information on 'enemies of freedom', as he used to refer to anti-racists and members of Jewish organizations, to members of the Heritage Front." [Link to this item]
--Source: Elisse Hategan, Testimony before Parliamentary subcommittee, June 13, 1995
1995, June 14 - Toronto Star story: "Report 'whitewash' of spy agency mole" [Link to this item]
1995, August 5 - Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Sergio Marchi writes to Zundel that he is engaged in activities "that constitutes a threat to the security of Canada." Marchi will cite the SIRC report as justification. [Link to this item]
--Source: Kulaszka affidavit, March 4, 1996, Federal Court of Canada, Zundel case
1995, October 18 - CTV reports on leaked House Committee report. "By 1990 the report concludes CSIS knew the Heritage Front was not a threat to the security of Canada. At worst it was involved in petty criminal activity which should have been investigated by police not by secret agents. But CSIS was determined to keep Bristow undercover." [Link to this item]
--Source: CTV National News, "More information on the Grant Bristow affair"
1995, October 20 - Toronto Sun story: "MPs rip Bristow spying scandal: CSIS broke the law, leaked report says" [Link to this item]
1995, November 15 - Fischer brothers receive 30 day sentence for assault on Mason. Charges against Maynard are dropped. [Link to this item]
--Source: Tyrone Mason affidavit, May 9, 1996 Federal Court of Canada
1996, March 4 - Kulaszka affidavit, federal court, Zundel case. [Link to this item]
1996, June 6 - Kinsella is quoted commenting on CSIS's 1995 annual report, "Remember, CSIS had a bad year last year," with the exposure of Grant Bristow in August 1994 and its prolonged aftermath, observes Warren Kinsella, author of Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network... "I rather suspect CSIS had its fill of headlines concerning the far-right threat after the Bristow affair," Mr. Kinsella suggests. "They'd probably prefer to avoid the subject for a while." (Note: see entry on 2004 revisionism article in The Walrus by Andrew Mitrovica in which the author writes; "But the media hysteria that had enveloped Bristow quickly evaporated as much of the press accepted SIRC's findings and considered the case closed.")
--Source: Alberta Report, Jun 6, 1996: "Ottawa Spies Lie Low"
--Source: The Walrus, Sept. 2004: "Front man"
1996, April 26 - Droege affidavit, federal court, Zundel case. [Link to this item]
1996, May 9 - Mason affidavit, federal court, Zundel case. [Link to this item]
1997, June 2 - Kinsella runs as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in North Vancouver. [Link to this item]
1997, June 2 - Richard Warman runs as a Green Party candidate in federal election in Windsor West riding, placing fifth. He is described as a third year law student, age 28-year-old in a correction. [Link to this item]
--Source: Windsor Star, May 30, 1999: "In the running"
--Source: Windsor Star, May 31, 1997: "Corrections and Clarifications: Wrong age"
--Source: Edmonton Journal, June 3, 1997: "Riding results from across Canada"
1998 - Roger Rocan's libel lawsuit against Kinsella's publisher HarperCollins over Web of Hate is settled out of court. An undisclosed sum is paid to Rocan and an apology issued. [Link to this item]
Wikipedia entry, "Warren Kinsella"
1999, June 3 - Richard Warman runs in provincial election as the Green candidate in the riding of Ottawa West-Nepean. Places fourth. [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, Jun. 4, 1999: "Maverick pulls off upset: Garry Guzzo stuns opponents with dramatic win"
1999, June 2 - Warman is described in an Ottawa Citizen story as a law clerk in the Federal Court of Canada. [Link to this item]
--Source: Ottawa Citizen, June 2, 1999: "Eastern Ontario's most volatile race"
1999, October 14 - Richard Warman travels from Ottawa to Toronto to join Green Party leader Frank de Jong in disassociating the Green Party from David Icke. [Link to this item]
--Source: Canadian Jewish News, Oct 14, 1999: Anti-racist protesters greet Icke: Liberals call on attorney general to investigate speaker
2000 - Ernst Zundel leaves Canada for United States. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry: "Ernst Zundel"
2000, March 11 - Richard Warman flies from Ottawa to Vancouver to organize protest against David Icke. [Link to this item]
--Source: Vancouver Sun, Mar. 11, 2000: "Protesters to target controversial author"
2000, November 27 - Richard Warman runs as a Green Party candidate in federal election in Ottawa-Orléans riding, placing fifth. [Link to this item]
2001, April 26 - Second editon of Web of Hate is published. "Revised & updated to include the Internet." Released seven years after the book's initial publication, "Grant Bristow" is included in this edition, on pages "2, 235, 258-259, 273-274, 281, 293, 296, 298 and 300" according to Warren Kinsella in the National Post.
[Link to this item]--Source: amazon.ca entry on "ISBN 0-00-639124-9"
--Source: National Post (web) Feb. 4, 2008, "Warren Kinsella: Dis an' Dat"
2002, July - Richard Warman is appointed member of Canadian Human Rights Commission. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, "Richard Warman"
2002, December - Kamloops Daily News story "Book removal 'side effect' of law" about "Ontario lawyer Richard Warman" sending letter to B.C. Library Association about David Icke's "Children of the Matrix". (story does not disclose that Warman is an employee of CHRC.) [Link to this item]
2003, February 5 - Ernst Zundel detained by police in U.S. and deported to Canada. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, Ernst Zundel
2003, June 12 - Canadian Jewish News story about CHRC May 9 Fred Kyburz decision, noting Kyburz must pay federal government $7,500. CHRC awards Richard Warman $30,000 from Kyburz. [Link to this item]
--Source: Canadian Jewish News, Jun 12, 2003: "Rights tribunal slams anti-Semitic Web site"
2003, September 2 - CanWest news story about Richard Warman suing Northern Alliance for labeling him '"an enemy of free speech," "a misguided witch hunter" and associated him with communism.' [Link to this item]
--Source: CanWest News Service, Sept. 2, 2003: "Lawyer sues white supremacist group"
2003, October 15 - The Canadian Alliance--formed in 2000 from the Reform Party--and the Progressive Conservative Party merge. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, "Canadian Alliance"
2004, March - Richard Warman ends term with Canadian Human Rights Commission. [Link to this item]
--Source: Wikipedia entry, "Richard Warman"
2004, May 22 - Ward Elcock retires as CSIS head. Dale Neufeld, 20-year veteran of CSIS, appointed. [Link to this item]
--Source: Canadian Press NewsWire, May 22, 2004: "Acting director appointed to head Canadian Security Intelligence Service"
2004, August 30 - Doug Christie testifies at Zundel deportation hearing. Reveals details of 1992 meeting with Bristow and Droege at which Droege said Bristow had a list of addresses and phone numbers of prominent Jews and wanted "to take the war to the Jews." [Link to this item]
--Source: Doug Christie testimony, Zundel deportation hearing, 2004
2004, September - Bristow breaks silence in The Walrus magazine. The story--though lengthy (over 7,500 words)--appears to be very poorly researched by writer Andrew Mitrovica. There is no mention of the House Subcommittee, no mention the testimony of Elisse Hategan; her name doesn't come up despite the fact she it was her court testimony that led to Bristow's exposure. No mention of all the numerous court affidavits and court testimony that contradict Bristow's self-serving account presented in the story; significantly, no mention of his posing as an Ottawa Citizen reporter to Bernie Farber despite Farber being mentioned in the story in relation to a speech Bristow gives to the Canadian Jewish Congress. No mention of Bristow's passing the names and addresses of prominent Jews to the Heritage Front. No mention of the Reform party. No mention of the all the numerous media exposes, etc. All this is dismissed in one paragraph--"Opposition parties and civil libertarians dismissed the report as a 'whitewash.' But the media hysteria that had enveloped Bristow quickly evaporated as much of the press accepted SIRC's findings and considered the case closed." As for it representation of the Heritage Front and neo-Nazis, it's the Web of Hate exaggerations all over again, with a small fringe being presented as a dangerous force. [Link to this item]
--Source: The Walrus, Sept. 2004: "Front man"
2005, April 13 - Wolfgang Droege shot by 43-year-old Keith DeRoux of Toronto. [Link to this item]
--Source: Victoria Times Colonist, April 15, 2005: "Racism link ruled out in neo-Nazi's death"
2005, April 14 - Eugene Plawiuk, who describes himself as a "freelance writer, investigative researcher, heresiologist, labour/social/masonic historian, activist, unabashed left-winger and heathen," writes an excellent blog post, "Fascists were CSIS Front." [Link to this item]
--Source: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/04/fascists-were-csis-front_14.html
2005, April 25 - Guelph Daily Mercury story "Former CSIS operative warns of new generation of neo-Nazis" based on CP interview with Grant Bristow. [Link to this item]
2005, June 23 - Richard Warman letter to the editor in Edmonton Journal praising Stephen Camp and Dave Huggins of the EPS hate-crimes unit. "'I've dealt with Stephen Camp and Dave Huggins of the EPS hate-crimes unit a number of times and have found them to be dedicated, effective role models on how to "get the job done right.'" [Link to this item]
--Source: Edmonton Journal, Jun 23, 2005: "City police hate-crimes officers are outstanding"
2005, June 25 - In a sidebar to story about a former skinhead turned preacher, Quinn McFarlane, who has been ordered to stand trial a second time for willfully promoting hatred--from an incident in 1997--Matthew Lauder is described as a someone who "infiltrated the white-supremacist movement in Canada from 1999 to 2001 as a researcher for the federal government, police and the Guelph Multicultural Centre." [Link to this item]
--Source: Canwest News, June 25, 2005: "Hand of God touches former skinhead"
2005, July 6 - Warman gives speech to Anti-Racist Action titled "Maximum Disruption: Stopping Neo-Nazi's by (Almost) any means necessary." [Link to this item]
--Source: Text of Richard Warman speech, found at www.richardwarman.com
2006, June 16 - Keith DeRoux, 44, sentenced to 12 years for murder of Wolfgang Droege. [Link to this item]
--Source: Toronto Star, Jun 17, 2006: Droege's killer gets 12 years
2006, August 19 - Anti-Racist Action protests in front of Paul Fromm's home. [Link to this item]
--Source: found at richardwarman.com
2006, December - Law Society of Upper Canada lists Warman working for the Department of National Defence. [Link to this item]
--Source: found at richardwarman.com, unverified
2007, January 29 - Richard Warman admits under oath at a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing that he logged onto the Freedomsite (subject of a human rights complaint) under the name of "lucy." [Link to this item]
--Source: http://www.freedominion.com/images/transcript.gif
2008, January 20 - Free Dominion, a website that is the subject of a human rights complaint, alleges that Richard Warman has planted hateful comments on web sites. [Link to this item]
--Source: http://www.freedominion.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1130657
2008, February 4 - Warren Kinsella makes statement to this web site regarding Grant Bristow; "HIS NAME WASN'T IN THE FIRST EDITION BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW HIS NAME WHEN IT CAME OUT." [Link to this item]
--Source: Warren Kinsella, Feb. 4, 2008: Unsolicited contact through RIM server to kevinsteel.org (posted in comments to "Stirring it up again.)