Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs

In public parks, gyms and martial arts clubs — where children take classes — some of Canada’s most notorious white supremacists are preparing for violence.

The members of these fight clubs, known in white nationalist communities as “active clubs,” are hiding in plain sight. As part of their recruitment and online propaganda, they post videos of their training sessions, taking care to hide their faces and obscure their locations.

But a months-long CBC visual investigation, in collaboration with The Fifth Estate, reveals exactly where some of these groups are training.