The Heritage Front was a Canadian neo-Nazi[1] white supremacist organization founded in 1989 and disbanded around 2005.[2]
The Heritage Front maintained a telephone message line with a different editorial each day. The voice on the hotline was Gary Schipper. The line resulted in complaints to the Canadian Human Rights Commission and hearings into allegations that the group violated Canada's hate crime laws.[3] The group organized a series of white power rock concerts in Toronto and elsewhere. Immediately after one of these concerts, a Tamil man, Sivarajah Vinasithamby, 41, returning home from work was beaten and partially paralyzed by several white power skinheads who had just left the concert.[4]
- ^ Makin, Kirk (2008-09-20). "Racists, crusader stuck in a hate-hate relationship". The Globe and Mail. pp. A.3. ISSN 0319-0714.
Mr. Warman traces his activism to a human-rights tribunal he happened to attend in 1991 that targeted the neo-Nazi Heritage Front.
- ^ Joseph Brean (March 22, 2008). "Scrutinizing the human rights machine". National Post. Archived from the original on March 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
- ^ Canada ( Human Rights Commission ) v. Heritage Front ( T.D. ), [1994] 1 F.C. 203; 8 Oct 1993 Docket: T-1539-92
- ^ "Refugee Beaten in Toronto". www.nizkor.com. Retrieved 2020-07-07.