The conspiracy appears to have popped onto law-enforcement radar thanks to that ill-fated border crossing in Michigan. tried to get into the U.S. in October 2019. Former army reservist Patrik Mathews of Winnipeg crossed the border a few months earlier, allegedly joining up with members of the Base, a white-supremacist group bent on precipitating a race war. Mathews faces numerous charges and has been in custody since his arrest early last year. It’s unclear whether any charges have been laid in the E.G.

Source: National Post January 15, 2021 11:04 UTC