How the Dominion Society Founder Got His Start In Campus Activism

 Several years ago, campuses across Canada's major cities found themselves the sites of efforts to mobilise students behind far-right causes.  Organisations such as the Students for Western Civilisation, ID Canada, and Canada First popped up with the intent of organising students and youth towards explicitly white nationalist causes.  Other organisations attempted to instead frame their far-right advocacy in terms of "free speech" and "open inquiry," which really functioned as an excuse to host hate activists using campus resources, to expose impressionable youth to the fledgling alt-right.  These groups included the Free Speech Club (FSC) and Students for Free Expression (SFE) at the University of British Columbia, the Laurier Society for Open Inquiry (LSOI) at Laurier and the University of Waterloo, and Students in Support of Free Speech (SSFS) at York and the University of Toronto.  In some cases such as the SSFS, the organisation was founded or had initial events with the explicit intent of showing support for extreme organisations such as the terrorist entity Proud Boys (designated after the SSFS event).  Many of these organisations featured students who have since moved on to become major figures within the Conservative Party of Canada and provincial conservative parties, including Jarryd Jaeger and Angelo Isidorou from the FSC, and Lindsay Shepherd from the LSOI.


Over the past month, a new white nationalist organisation has popped up across Canada called the Dominion Society of Canada (DSC), an organisation seeking to professionalise the country's far-right and bring it back to the alt-right roots of the last decade. DSC is founded by Daniel Tyrie, a former People's Party of Canada (PPC) executive, and its membership seems to primarily draw from current and former members of the PPC. DSC is primarily focused around the concept of "remigration," a term whitewashing a plan to ethnically cleanse a country of its nonwhite and immigrant populations, known to be championed by European neo-Nazi activists such as Martin Sellner and Generation Identity (or as its former Canadian branch was called, ID Canada).  DSC is believed to have a membership of approximately 100 members across Canada.  Its founder, Daniel Tyrie, was himself a campus activist and ardent follower of the Laurier Society for Open Inquiry. 

 Pictured: Ken Jones and neo-Nazi Dan Sleno, dressed like deeply closeted Mormons

 Indeed, a precursory examination shows that Daniel Tyrie was indeed a pretty ardent supporter of Lindsay Shepherd's LSOI project during his time at the University of Waterloo:

Complaining about "irrational" protestors who did not want their campus to be the site of a rally espousing the genocidal "Great Replacement" theory (or "ethnocide," as Faith Goldy and George Hutcheson spun it)  

Indeed, one can see from Tyrie's posts that he was already quite far-right if he thinks David Clement is more "left-wing."

Demonstrating just how deep into the campus alt-right scene Tyrie was, he's still facebook friends (and if Daniel starts clamming up, I'll post the exhaustive list of every single profile on it) with several far-right youth activists who are still prominent Conservative Party activists: Harrison Faulkner of the Ryerson Conservatives and Canada First, whose leader Tyler Russell apparently had contact with Tyrie; Cosmin Dszurdzsa of (at the time) Free Bird Media, and is now husband of LSOI's leader Lindsey Shepherd; Wyatt Claypool, who was Mount Royal University's President of the Campus Conservatives.  Other CPC activists include Indian government shill Daniel Bordman; and Christian fundamentalist activist Mattea Merta. 

Tyrie has since taken to recruiting open Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis, most especially from the neo-Nazi paramilitary movement Diagolon and its more exclusive organisation "Second Sons."  Diagolon has had several incidents of violence, including allegations that leader Jeremy Mackenzie pointed a firearm at someone (Disclosure: One former ranking member of Diagolon has threatened to murder the author of this blog). Several other anonymous individuals who have posted their membership cards are open about their Nazism.

Starting to think these guys might be Nazis... pic.twitter.com/r4gcKs6QfG

— Keep Canada Strong (@KeepCanStrong) August 8, 2025

This even extends to interviews with neo-Nazi podcasts, most recently the Blood$atellite podcast.  Tyrie is not at all hesistant to interact with these figures, marking an open transition from ambiguity over his far-right positioning to open endorsement of Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazi figures and media.  However, this is hardly a surprise to those of us who followed the campus activism scene Tyrie emerged out of, and validates our longstanding criticisms of these campus "free speech" organisations simply acting as a cover for efforts to radicalise and organise youth behind extreme right wing ideologies.

This was already apparent when Lindsay Shepherd tried hosting an event with neo-Nazi activist Faith Goldy and George Hutcheson, then a boyfriend of Generation Identity activist and Russian intelligence asset Lauren Southern.  Shepherd has since gone on to act as a party executive for the Conservative Party of British Columbia during the last provincial election, wrote a children's book about white nationalist cause célèbre Sir John A MacDonald, and married a man who at that point had written for two different neo-Nazi sites (although my understanding is that one of the owners of that site has since repented).  Now, we are seeing Shepherd's followers from her time as a campus activist re-emerge as open supporters and affiliates of Nazism, proving that her critics right about the person she really is.

Lindsay Shepherd, pictured at the Nazi rally she held at Wilfred Laurier University.