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Canadian officials have not confirmed his eligibility to enter Canada.","category":"Politics","area":null,"publishedAt":"2026-08-12T19:46:31.479Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-08-12T18:43:41.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-12T19:46:31.479Z","readTime":"5 min read","scores":{"trust":62,"critic":55,"hype":15,"notes":{"trust":"Two full reports corroborate key facts; digests add breadth but no new evidence.","critic":"Quotes and context present in full reports; digests lack depth.","hype":"Headlines are measured; digests are neutral summaries."}},"tags":["#FarRightGroups","#ImmigrationPolicy","#HamiltonOntario","#WhiteNationalism","#RemigrationDebate"],"entities":["Andrea Horwath","Dominion Society","Martin Sellner","Hamilton Anti-Racism Resource Centre","City of Hamilton"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath notified local venues about the Dominion Society’s planned conference on 29 August, which promotes mass deportations of immigrants.","The group’s speaker, Martin Sellner, was banned from the UK in 2019 on security grounds, but Canadian officials have not confirmed whether he can enter Canada.","Anti-racism groups in Hamilton signed an open letter urging businesses not to rent space to the Dominion Society, which advocates for a 10-year immigration moratorium.","No right-rated outlet reported on the story, though 15 outlets across the left and centre covered it."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath sent letters to local businesses on 12 August warning them about the Dominion Society, a group planning a conference in the city on 29 August. The group advocates for \"remigration\", which it describes as the mass deportation of immigrants. Its website calls for a 10-year moratorium on immigration and the deportation of 5 to 9 million people, including temporary foreign workers, permanent residents, and people born in Canada to non-citizens."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Dominion Society’s advertised speaker is Martin Sellner, an Austrian remigration advocate banned from entering the UK in 2019 on security grounds. Canadian government officials, citing privacy reasons, have not confirmed whether Sellner is eligible to enter Canada. The group has not disclosed the conference’s location, citing concerns about member safety."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Horwath’s office stated that the city would not rent facilities to the Dominion Society and that bylaw staff are monitoring event-related materials on public property. Several Hamilton anti-racism groups, including the Hamilton Anti-Racism Resource Centre, signed an open letter urging businesses not to rent space to the group. The letter called on elected officials to denounce the Dominion Society and reject policies that scapegoat immigrants."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No right-rated outlet ran the story. None of the left- or centre-rated digests mentioned the number of businesses that received Horwath’s letter, though CBC News reported that her office did not disclose the figure. 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