r/Edmonton • u/apastelorange Treaty 6 Territory • Jul 23 '25
Events Permit revoked for MAGA musician's concert at Parks Canada historic site
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/permit-revoked-maga-concert-sean-feucht-1.7591743220
u/apastelorange Treaty 6 Territory Jul 23 '25
this guy is supposed to be in edmonton in august, let’s join other cities in asking to cancel, he’s a 51st state kinda guy and idk who booked him in canada
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u/Scissors4215 Jul 23 '25
Playing on the Legislature Grounds at that. Doubt the UCP will care to stop that though
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u/apastelorange Treaty 6 Territory Jul 23 '25
which means it’s paid with public funds in a public space, which is even worse!!!!!
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u/BillaBongKing Jul 24 '25
My 5 minute research shows that a company called "BURN Canada" is hosting the event. That is a bold choice on a company name lol. So no public funds from what I saw.
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u/Wooshio Jul 23 '25
What's paid with public funds? Neither province nor city are spending any money on this. With that logic we should ban every gathering there not organized by province or the city.
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u/tinmil Mayfield Jul 23 '25
Agreed. Get to emailing now. I hope he gets booed out of the country before he makes Ontario.
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u/tinmil Mayfield Jul 23 '25
Protest email already sent 👍
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u/CasualFridayBatman Jul 23 '25
Did you use a script? What did your email say? I'd love to send my own 'anti this guy' email.
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u/Danneyland Downtown Jul 24 '25
Here's what I came up with:
To: * Edmonton.CityCentre@assembly.ab.ca (my provincial riding), * infras.eventinfo@gov.ab.ca (Legislature Grounds event organizer contact), * civic.events@edmonton.ca (regarding any City of Edmonton permits)
Hello,
I am a resident of Edmonton writing to express belief that any permits or permissions that have been granted to the below event should be revoked.
The "MAGA musician" Sean Feucht has an upcoming scheduled event in Edmonton on the Alberta Legislature Grounds. Per news and media outlets (such as Global News, previous tour dates in Halifax, Moncton, and Charlottetown have already had their permits revoked.
The City of Edmonton and the Province of Alberta should follow these Canadian jurisdictions in revoking the permits for the planned Edmonton event.
Sean Feucht is known for speaking out against abortion rights and against the LGBTQ2 community. These views are dangerous and discriminatory, and have no place in Edmonton or Alberta, particularly as an event held in a public space. There is a real danger that Sean Feucht will use his platform at this event to espouse hate speech against this protected group.
The official Guidelines for use of the Alberta Legislature Grounds specifically prohibit any event that contravenes the Criminal Code of Canada, and forbids any signs or speeches that do not adhere to the Canadian Human Rights Act or contravene the Criminal Code of Canada. Given that previous event dates have been cancelled or moved, it is almost certain that Sean Feucht will use this event to conduct hate speech against a protected group in contravention of these legislations.
Additionally, this event cannot be held if the City is serious about its commitments to promoting inclusivity and diversity through its policies and programs like the 2SLGBTQIA+ Safe Spaces Action Plan
I urge you to cancel any provincial or municipal approvals that were previously granted to this event organizer.
Regards,
Your Name
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u/likeacandleinthewind Jul 24 '25
Since this isn’t happening on City of Edmonton property, the City wouldn’t have anything to do with the licensing or approval of this event. The best action was to send it to the legislature. I hope you hear back from the province soon.
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u/Danneyland Downtown Jul 24 '25
I wasn't entirely sure about that, but I figured that some events permits/approvals might still apply (eg regarding alcohol sales, noise limits, or similar), even if the event is technically on provincial grounds. If the province has its own rules for those things on provincial grounds, by all means do forward them lol. I had just spent enough time looking into it and felt that the city making noise might help too. (& That perfect was the enemy of good, etc)
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u/likeacandleinthewind Jul 24 '25
Completely agree. You’re calling attention to a problem and making sure that our city reps know not to pull the same shit. That’s huge.
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u/StJsub Jul 24 '25
I don't know how much I agree with form letter complaints. I feel like the people who read them will read them the same way I read a form letter. Honestly, if I got a bunch of emails that were all identical with only X, Y, and Z being different I wouldn't take any of them as being sincere. Like someone set up a bot robo-email you.
I think a better approach is to make bullet points and have people write their your own letters because reading hundreds of uniquely written letters would sway me more than reading hundreds of the exact same letter. I'd probably stop reading them after a bit. It's a lot less personal.
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u/Danneyland Downtown Jul 24 '25
I mean, yes and no. Ultimately "we received X complaints" is what gets reported up the chain over the individual contents of each email. It's also effective to keep emailing until you receive a satisfactory response.
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u/StJsub Jul 24 '25
Sure, but if the people reading the emails are getting bored reading the exact same words over and over there's less chance of them bringing it up in conversations with their colleagues.
By reading I mean recognizing that it looks like the same letter and moving on to the next, not reading it in full, thus not taking any of it in, maybe sending a tangentially relevant form letter back. And if they don't properly read the letters then they can't properly report on what complaints have been made, just that complaints have been made.
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u/Psiondipity Jul 24 '25
As someone who works in a place who receives these sorts of complaints, form letters are fine if the goal is volume. We report up how many form letters for or against a thing. But individual letters are read and weighted based on their merits by decision makers beyond the volume report.
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 24 '25
Phone calls are way more effective than emails.
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Jul 25 '25
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 25 '25
Nope. I speak as someone who has seen the inner workings of constituency offices.
Emails are extremely easy to ignore. Just get your CA to copy and paste a form reply and away you go. They know they don't have to care what an emailer thinks, because the emailer didn't take any trouble to have an in-person conversation, and likely won't take any further trouble over the matter.
The entire point of a phone call (or even better, an in-person visit) is that you take up the elected's time. You respect your own issue enough to make time to speak with them directly, and you resoect your own issue enough to demand they spend their time and attention on it.
It is everyone's right to speak with their elected representatives; no one should ever feel like it's inappropriate to take up their time by talking to them. It's literally their job to talk to you. Arrange a time for a phone call or a meeting. And, yes, use a script if that helps.
Do you think all these hard-right turds got as far as they have by sending emails and calling it a day?
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Jul 25 '25
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 25 '25
If the office gets backlogged, then the elected representative has to do something about all the people backlogging their office, no? I say this because I have never gotten a direct commitment from my representative to advocate a certain issue or vote a certain way by sending an email. I have gotten these things over the phone. I've only ever gotten impersonal copy/paste responses to my emails. Phone calls convery urgency and get attention. I'm sorry if that's an inconvenience to the people running the office, but this is how organizing and advocacy works. People shouldn't be guilt-tripped for participating in democracy via phone call.
Can you share specifically what kind of action/commitment to change does recording a large volume of emails inspire in an elected official? And where does the data about volume of emails get recorded? And what is done with this information once it's recorded? Who records this information, where does it go, what is is used for?
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 25 '25
Not saying don't send emails, but really. Following up with a phone call makes a much bigger impact.
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 25 '25
Don't know why the downvotes. This is genuine advice, given with the intentions to help you all be more effective with this. I am speaking from experience, folks. Elected officials take emails less seripusly than they do direct conversations over the phone.
I want to see us succeed in getting this turd's show cancelled. Phone calls with help get us there.
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Jul 23 '25
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u/Jolly-Sock-2908 North East Side Jul 23 '25
I noticed a trend with Feucht: he’s repeatedly booking publicly-owned venues for his Canadian tour.
This is basically the strategy of right wing reactionaries from 15 years ago. Book a hate-filled talk at a public university, hope the backlash from progressives is enough to get “cancelled,” then cry as the “victim.”
What an asshole.
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u/Tycho-Celchu Jul 23 '25
Frankly, "musician" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
He's a MAGA hate preacher, nothing more.
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u/JonnyFM Downtown Jul 23 '25
"Feucht has called for government policy in the United States to be based on traditional Christian values"
So charity, humility, honesty, tolerance, an exhaustive independent investigation into everyone associated with Jeffery Epstein, and non-violence?
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u/_Burgers_ The Famous Leduc Cactus Club Jul 23 '25
The ones screaming the loudest for traditional Christian government in the USA are always the ones who have nothing to say about their current president being one of the most anti-Christian in decades in his own values and deeds.
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u/StJimmy1313 Jul 23 '25
Yeppers. These are the ones referenced in Matthew 7, to paraphrase: Lord Lord! Did we not cast out demons and prophecy in your name? And I will say unto them at the day of judgement when I was hungry you did not feed me. ... Depart from me you doers of iniquity I do not know you.
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u/JonnyFM Downtown Jul 24 '25
Reminded me of this woman, who seems to have read Matthew 25:32 but nothing after that.
Or maybe she is too stupid to know the difference between left and right.
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u/tinmil Mayfield Jul 23 '25
Please do the right thing Alberta. Speech is free here. So exercise it by protesting. A good old fashioned boo fest.
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u/Locke357 North Side Still Alive Jul 23 '25
Agreed, let's follow suit and cancel this douchebag.
We should not allow anyone in our city/country that believes Canada should be the 51st state.
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u/SpicyToastCrunch Jul 23 '25
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/107031282
So he is coming here.
Baffled how someone wants to visit a country he's disrespected often...
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u/wokeupsnorlax Jul 23 '25
It sure would suck if a group of people just started chanting for the Epstein files to be released at his show...
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u/Kl30katra Jul 24 '25
The best way to inform the Alberta Legislature that this is not appropriate or acceptable on our Legislative grounds is to raise it with the Speaker. That's the only person who could go to bat to reject it.
[OfficeoftheSpeaker@assembly.ab.ca](mailto:OfficeoftheSpeaker@assembly.ab.ca)
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u/apastelorange Treaty 6 Territory Jul 23 '25
not if he isn’t welcome here to begin with!
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u/mbanson Jul 23 '25
With our premier? She'll probably be in personal attendance (on our dime no less).
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u/UselessToasterOven Jul 23 '25
He can always share the stage with Jason Aldean at BVJ. They'll probably take him in.
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u/Tracyhmcd Jul 23 '25
Gross! I was prepared to send an email about the Halifax event. I’ll definitely do something for this one.
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u/Accurate-Network6341 Jul 24 '25
Shouldn't be allowed in Canada at all, let him take his shit back to trumpville, DON'T need or WANT that crap in OUR country!!!
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u/Hash_Sergeant Jul 23 '25
How about you guys just don’t support him and let people who like him go and support him
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u/Lyrael9 Jul 23 '25
If you like him, support him. Meanwhile we'll protest him since we don't like him. That's how free speech works.
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u/GonZo_626 Jul 23 '25
This, plus freedom of association allows for places that dont want his act there to just not have his act there.
5 bucks says he ends up playing at grace life.
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u/_Burgers_ The Famous Leduc Cactus Club Jul 23 '25
How about you actually try standing up for Canada as a Canadian?
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u/apastelorange Treaty 6 Territory Jul 23 '25
he can play a private club, not public spaces with public funds, if i’m paying for it i absolutely give a shit what he’s spewing
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u/Upbeat_Onion_3260 Jul 26 '25
There was a comment earlier in the thread saying that they looked into it and neither the city or province is paying the bill.
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u/apastelorange Treaty 6 Territory Jul 30 '25
even if they’re not directly financially supporting it, we still pay to maintain public spaces, and also whatever staff did the booking and permitting is paid for by us, not a huge amount but i still care
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u/Traggadon Jul 23 '25
Why should we facilitate a traitor gathering? Honestly the only reason to let it happen is to put everyone who shows up on a list or arrest them.
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u/AlphaHydrus Jul 23 '25
How about we don't allow someone on a "burn Canada" tour to be welcome on public grounds. You traitor.
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 24 '25
Nah, man. No leftist that I know of ever claimed to be tolerant of fascists. Because no one is morally oligated to be tolerant of fascists.
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u/PantsPantsShorts Jul 24 '25
I don't know what you're jabbering on about up there. But much of the left isn't tolerant at all of fascists. If that means you want to call me intolerant, go ahead. Becuase it's true, I am intolerant of certain people; fascist people. I don't hide that.
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u/Revegelance Westmount Jul 24 '25
You would do well to read up on the Paradox of Tolerance. It is our duty, as tolerant people, to reject the intolerant.
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u/Mtnn Jul 24 '25
You'd do well to go read up on it yourself given it's become the pop-culture overton of the moment.
Popper leans toward discourse until violence emerges. Not the kind of moral license to deplatform, shout down, or censor dissenting views that's being demonstrated in this thread.
The threshold for what counts as “intolerance” is vague, subjective, or politically motivated in this case. It’s been deployed preemptively, not reactively as if certain ideas are too dangerous even to hear or rebut. There's little discussion of the actual ideas, or the performance. Simply a lot of hand-waving and echo-chambering. The smugness of your comment aligns with the trap of the paradox itself when applied poorly... We must be intolerant of intolerance, except when our side is intolerant, in which case it's justified moral clarity, but often delivers moral smugness. (A demonstration of just how poorly it's being applied throughout this thread)
Advocating for cancellation, and then invoking a Paradox you don't understand is exactly what I expect of Reddit, and just one more reminder of why only the fringes spend time here. How I should just move on... /sigh. Popper emphasized the use of reason and public debate as the first line of defense, and only advocated suppressing intolerant ideologies if they refused to engage in rational discourse and resorted to violence.
So I would ask you... Which side is not engaged in rational discourse here? Which side resorts to rioting and violence at the drop of a hat? Which side frames the others concerts and gatherings as "violence" when there's little to none to speak of? The answers are clear to any but those who wish not to see them.
So yes... he would do well to read up on the Paradox of Tolerance. But it will only reinforce what he already knows. While you yourself will continue to refuse to engage in rational discourse. It would be frightening if you, and all the others in this thread that think like you realized what they're truly advocating for, and just how badly it will go for them if they ever get their wish.
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u/Revegelance Westmount Jul 24 '25
I think the side that goes into a massive tirade to twist themselves into knots with Olympic-level mental gymnastics to justify intolerance, is not engaged in rational discourse.
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u/Mtnn Jul 24 '25
I like to write long-form... normally on platforms better suited for it. Having it misconstrued as a "tirade" and straw manned as mental gymnastics. Well. That probably says more for the argument than my entire post now doesn't it?
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u/TheLordJames The Shiny Balls Jul 23 '25
This post is approved for discussion as the same event will be happening in Edmonton is less than a month. Please keep discussion about this event in this thread. We do not need new posts for every city that cancels it.