There were more details released yesterday about the shooting in Montreal—the name of the officer and the civilian who were killed, and a few details are emerging about the shooter, who is believed to have been a university student from Lethbridge, Alberta. His purported manifesto, however, is what is burning up the social media channels, with everyone searching for what they want to read in it—“anti-police/anti-government,” antisemitic/anti-Zionist, “communist,” among others, but at its heart it was an incel manifesto.
The Post's white nationalist apologist has cherry-picked the purported manifesto to discover it says what she hopes it will say. Imagine that!
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T02:42:49.682Z
Here is Carleton University professor Stephanie Carvin, whose latest book was on the far-right in Canada, and she has read the purported manifesto, and has some interview clips here to put it into context. (For some unknown reason, CBC didn’t post either this interview or the one she did with Power & Politics to YouTube, so this will have to do for the moment.
Stephanie Carvin on Montreal shooter's manifesto: There is the incel philosophy here as well as a lot of anti-government extremism … the shooter is basically holding police responsible for upholding a system that is seen as inherently corrupt and degrading certain classes of men in society.
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T13:37:16.747Z
Stephanie Carvin on RCMP issuing warning to police agencies across the country: There's an explicit call for what the shooter calls "revolutionary acts of terrorism" in this manifesto.
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T13:39:50.999Z
Carvin: The radicalization story here is going to be very important for understanding what happened, why this person seems to — it's been reported that he drove from Alberta to Montreal. Why did he choose Montreal? There's a lot we can speculate on there.
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T13:43:11.177Z
Carvin: If this is the manifesto, it is what I would describe as an incel critique of capitalism. And he's really coming at a variety of different topics in here. You do have ideas, I would say, from the extreme left and the extreme right. But the continuing thread throughout is a hatred of women.
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T13:43:25.847Z
I do have to wonder about what more the federal government should be doing, and in particular, the Conservatives who keep insisting that they are trying to do something for disaffected young (white) men. That’s what Jamil Jivani’s big campus tour is all about, insisting that these young men need special dispensation in life because they’re just soooo disaffected. Poilievre’s solution to everything is to just cut taxes and hope that doubling down on trickle-down economics will do the trick, but somehow, I doubt that’s going to do much in this situation—particularly given that he’s tried to engage the “manosphere” to try and attract those voters to his cause. None of this is good, and I worry about where this goes the more that they try to appeal to a toxic internet culture and keep ignoring people in the real world.
Ukraine Dispatch:
A Russian missile attack killed three people in Kryvyi Rih. Ukraine struck a railway bridge in occupied Crimea, as well as other key infrastructure, intended to continue isolating the region. Ukraine’s attacks have caused a fuel shortage in Russia, leading to sale restrictions.
Noteworthy:
- Mark Carney’s ethics screen has been “activated” seventeen times as of May.
- Justin Ling ponders the societal problem of lonely young men radicalised on the internet, and what it takes to keep them from becoming incels.
But because this is Canada, we won’t hold the provincial government to account for its abject failures, but will instead blame the federal government, and nothing will get fixed. Ever.
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T12:57:30.637Z
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