"Flight delayed due to a bird strike. Not totally sure if that means they pooped on the windshield, flew into the engine, or are picketing on the runway."
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: January 19
National Guard troops receive guns and ammunition outside the U.S. Capitol building this week, where pro-Trump extremists attacked earlier this month.(Erin Scott/Reuters)
In the wake of unprecedented upheaval in the United States, a university professor who tracks extremist groups says there s been exponential growth of the far-right movement in Canada since 2016 and its tendrils reach across the Atlantic Ocean and into Newfoundland and Labrador.
While there s been much talk of the growth of the far-right in recent years, the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., by pro-Donald Trump extremists made it one of the first major stories of 2021. Some fear more violence could erupt Wednesday for the inauguration of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden.
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