Under the banner of fitness and self-improvement, a white nationalist movement known as Active Clubs is quietly spreading across North America. ISD’s Mack Lamoureux spoke to The National, the CBC’s flagship news broadcast, about these groups, describing them as “one of the fastest growing far-right extremist threats in Canada.”

Active Club members often recruit individuals with seemingly innocuous goals: getting in shape or learning marital arts. But the group’s true objectives aren’t nearly as harmless as they’re portrayed.

“The minute you peel back even the slightest layer of this onion, it becomes far more insidious. These are virulent white supremacists,” Mack said the CBC News article. “These are people that in many cases are training for what they believe is to be an upcoming race war.”

The full article is available on CBC News and the feature on The National.