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Feb 11, 2022 · Sam Hersh, an Ottawa activist who helped to organize a cancelled counter-protest to the Freedom Convoy, said he believes Canada’s growing far-right movement has been emboldened by the events in...
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Sam Hersh is with Horizon Ottawa, a municipal-focused...
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6 days ago · Sam Hersh is with Horizon Ottawa, a municipal-focused grassroots organization. Elizabeth Houlding is a community organizer for Justice for Workers Ottawa. Article content.
Aug 1, 2023 · Sam Hersh, a Horizon Ottawa board member, dipped his head as a committee member began reading its decision, and later told CBC he'd provide no further comment at this time....
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According to one message, which PressProgress said was "allegedly posted in October 2022," Kiez appears to call teachers "the most vile of the left-marxist set, who admit trying to indoctrinate as many people as possible … They are making a future generation of crybabies, utterly dependent upon government for everything." In another post, Kiez appe...
The report describes the movement as "a spontaneous grass roots protest" with the goal of ending all COVID-19-related mandates and restrictions. "At the time of writing, there is no critical intelligence to suggest any sort of violent actions or concerns for violence," the report begins, though it notes that due to the "vast number of vehicles" inv...
Drawing comparisons between the protesters who were about to descend on the city and other protest movements, the report is highly disdainful of "professional" activists whose tactics Kiez mocks, and even mentions one local activist by name. "This event is … less of a 'professional protest' with the usual sad players, but rather, is a truly organic...
According to an internal email chain also entered into evidence at the commission, Supt. Mark Patterson asked Kiez on Jan. 28 to remove the reference to Hersh, and to rephrase the reference to "the usual sad players." Hersh's name has been removed from the fourth and presumably final version, but the "sad players" remain. (The email chain also refe...
At times, Kiez appears to blur the borrowed quotes with his own thoughts on the origins and growing size of the protest movement. In one section, the report refers to the number of members of a pro-convoy Facebook page, 397,000, as representing "more than a tenth of the Canadian population," an obvious error in fact. Ultimately, the report conclude...
View Sam Hersh’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. I have extensive professional and volunteer experience with organizations who work at all levels of...
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Aug 8, 2022 · And while Sam proudly says that Judaism informs his fight for marginalized groups and against hate, he doesn’t hesitate to hold the truckers who descended on his city earlier this year responsible for a local surge of antisemitism.
Feb 5, 2022 · Sam Hersh, a Horizon Ottawa board member who helps organize at least a dozen demonstrations a year in Ottawa, cancelled an event planned for Tuesday. Hersh has rallied on topics such as police...
