Ontario council moves meetings online citing growing infiltration of alt-right [Video]

A local council east of Toronto says it’s cancelling in-person sessions and moving meetings online citing “increasingly hostile threats” to its members as an internal battle around one councillor escalates.

The mayor and councillors in the City of Pickering have been engaged in a growing battle with one member of council, whom they claim is linked to alt-right figures and has repeatedly disrupted meetings.

Ward 1 Coun. Lisa Robinson has been docked nine months of pay by her colleagues over the past year after three successive integrity commissioner investigations found she had broken the code of conduct.

Robinson has denied wrongdoing, asked a judge to overrule the integrity commissioner’s findings and alleged there is a conspiracy against her led by the city’s mayor.

Now, as council prepares to hold its first meeting of the year, tensions have risen again with the release of a 13-minute video on the city’s official YouTube channel announcing the end of in-person council meetings.

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