Why Is the Sask Party Playing Footsie With Domestic Terrorism?

An expert in militias and counter-terrorism confirmed it was a weapons training camp, right outside Saskatoon, so can we start paying attention now please?

First let’s make this about me just a bit more.

Trust me, I’m as sick of it as you are.

I’m just going to say that I’m aware that just by publishing about this I’m putting myself at risk of online backlash. Yes, again.

Some of my more long-suffering friends are not impressed with my choices right now lol.

But, unless you’re new around here, you know I’m pretty used to it.

I’ve weighed the personal risks and chose to proceed talking about this because I feel those risks are worth it if we can have an honest chat about the Saskatchewan minefield we’re all walking on.

Jeremy Mackenzie is the leader of an organization he calls Diagalon. Dive down that rabbit hole at your own risk cause it’s deep, you’ll be gone for days. Diagalon has been deemed by Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC) as “ideologically motivated violent extremism”.

Mackenzie was in a Saskatoon courtroom yesterday morning, after being hauled here by the RCMP from Nova Scotia, where he was arrested at the end of September on charges connected to what some media has been referring to as a Diagalon “shooting party”, but that sources close to CSIS as well as counter-terrorism experts have told me unequivocally was a weapons training exercise.