Donald Clarke Andrews (born April 20, 1942, as Vilim Zlomislić) is a Canadian

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. He is the leader of the Nationalist Party of Canada and a

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for mayor of

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Early years

Zlomislić was born to

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parents in the region of

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during

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. His father was killed by the

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while fighting with the

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against the German occupation of Yugoslavia in late 1944. His mother, Rose, was shipped to Germany in 1943 to work as a slave labourer for the Nazis and Vilim was placed in an orphanage. In 1945, Rose was told that her son had been killed in an air raid. After the war, she met and married Frederick Andrews, a Canadian working for a United Nations agency in a German displaced persons' camp. The couple moved to Toronto."PORTRAIT OF A RACIST" by Arthur Johnson, ''Globe and Mail'', October 1, 1979 Vilim remained at the orphanage and was a member of the Communist Young Pioneers in the post-war

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. He suffered an accident during a camping trip and a botched operation on his leg left him limping and permanently disabled. His mother continued to search for him after the war through the assistance of the

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, which located Vilim in 1952 and brought him to Canada where he was re-united with his mother and re-named Donald Clarke Andrews. In Canada, Andrews developed a strong antipathy toward

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, which he blamed for his physical disability. After graduating from high school he began reading

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tracts by the John Birch Society and

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and adopted far-right and ultimately

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ideas.

Education and work

Andrews was educated at R. H. King Collegiate Institute in

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and subsequently took a public health inspection course at

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and earned his qualifications in 1964. He worked as a public health inspector in Scarborough in the 1970s. More recently, he has derived his income by being a landlord.Facing off with hate
", ''The Ryersonian'', March 21, 2007

Political activity

Edmund Burke Society

In the 1960s, Andrews was drawn to far right groups and cofounded the Edmund Burke Society with Paul Fromm and Leigh Smith in 1967.

Western Guard

Andrews became the primary leader of the group and transformed it into the

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and

Western Guard in 1972. Paul Fromm split with Andrews shortly after the Western Guard was formed in 1972. Andrews was the first person in Canada charged with wilfully promoting hatred, and in 1975 he was charged with offences ranging from plotting arson, possession of weapons and explosives, and mischief, for which he was sentenced to two years in jail. Along with the Western Guard, he also plotted to bomb a visiting Israeli soccer team, although he was never charged for this. Consequently, the leadership of the Western Guard fell to John Ross Taylor in 1976. In 1976, Andrews' home was the target of a bombing by Joseph Schachter, a member of the Jewish Defence League. The bomb caused damage to the home, but nobody was harmed.

Nationalist Party

Don Andrews is a Canadian perennial candidate, having run for

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, 1974,

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, 1988,

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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

and most recently in

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, when he came in seventh place with 0.10% of the vote. In the 1974 election, Andrews placed a distant second in the mayoralty race as no serious candidate ran against popular incumbent, David Crombie. As a result, the municipal law was changed so that the runner-up in the mayoralty contest no longer had the right to succeed to the mayor's chair should the position become vacant between elections. Andrews has only run on occasions when his name appears first on the ballot. He sat out the 2000 municipal election in which fringe candidate Enza "Supermodel" Anderson was a candidate. As of 1994, Andrews' organization had launched a campaign to celebrate "European Heritage Day," but when it was realized that the event was spearheaded by a neo-Nazi organization, the various cities approached rejected it or revoked their original decision. In 1998, Andrews tried a new tactic by attempting to get a European heritage week declared in London, Ontario. When it was recognized as a neo-Nazi attempt, an emergency vote was held by the municipal government, and the week was cancelled.

Dominica invasion attempt

Andrews was involved in the preliminary planning for Operation Red Dog, but left the group when they changed their target to Dominica.

Electoral record

References

External links

Nationalist Party of Canada
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