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Anti-mask protesters take to the streets in Calgary to fight COVID-19 restrictions

Title (Dublin Core)

Anti-mask protesters take to the streets in Calgary to fight COVID-19 restrictions

Description (Dublin Core)

This article details one of the numerous ‘freedom marches’ which took place in Calgary Alberta, Canada. These people were protesting in response to the government lockdowns, mask mandates and regulations to help limit the spread of Covid-19. However, what is interesting in this particular article is the reference to the multiplicity of causes behind each protestor; that protestors had different causes, and reasons for showing up. People marched for the obvious ‘anti-mask’ causes, yet others would protest for the ‘Wexit’ movement, which is the desire to establish either an independent Albertan ‘republic’ or join the U.S. as the 51st state. This item is important as it demonstrates how the pandemic sceptic movements of Calgary Alberta were viewed in a negative light; more importantly how these movements often co-opted other fringe movements such as the Albertan separatist movement. Similarly, the vitriol of these protestors is on display, as the Calgary freedom marchers have been notable for their behaviour of spitting, coughing and screaming at passersby, police and local businesses as evident in this particular story. Similarly, many believe these mask-less movements are super spreader events which are contributing to the spread of the virus in several urban centers throughout the province of Alberta, such as Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer. This article provides substance to the pandemic sceptics of Alberta, Canada as no different to the anti-maskers of the United States; as uploading this, many of the organizations who attended and organized these events are currently organizing a massive march throughout the province which has been marketed to appear alike the tiki-torch rally of the far right in Charlottesville in 2017. I believe this article would fit best in the social justice collection to demonstrate the public/media response to the pandemic sceptics marching in the streets of Albertan cities.

Date (Dublin Core)

December 12, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Timm Bruch

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Padraic Cohen

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text
article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/anti-mask-protesters-take-to-the-streets-in-calgary-to-fight-covid-19-restrictions-1.5228760
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Source (Dublin Core)

CTV News

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Issues
English Conflict
English Protest
English Politics
English Pandemic Skeptics

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

HST580
Canada
Alberta
pandemic-sceptic
sceptic
separatists
anti-mask
freedom
#SocialJustice
protest
police
Wexit

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

HST580
Canada
Alberta
pandemic-sceptic
separatist
anti-mask
freedom
anger
confrontation

Collection (Dublin Core)

Social Justice
Canada

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/22/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/10/2021
2/18/2021
08/02/2022
09/17/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

12/12/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Canada
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on January 22, 2021 by Padraic Cohen using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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