It turns out the grass isn’t greener in Canada; it’s just a lot more expensive.
A far-left activist and self-proclaimed “scholar of the far-right,” who goes by the social media handle “Nope Brigade,” is finding out the hard way that “liberal utopias” still require you to pay your bills.
After spending months fear-mongering about a “looming genocide” under President Trump, the Sociology Ph.D. candidate who studies the “far right,” with a focus on “Christian nationalism,” packed her bags for Canada, only to end up online weeks later begging for discounted housing and complaining about the lack of “free” government services.
Back on December 3, 2024, she uploaded a lengthy video warning that President Donald Trump’s immigration rhetoric was laying the “building blocks to genocide” in the United States, comparing potential deportation policies to the Holocaust and Armenian genocide.
“I can’t stop thinking about what might happen to immigrants once Trump ascends to power, so I would like to give you some insights that I have learned from my genocide class about what that might look like in the United States.
Genocides don’t just happen overnight, out of nowhere. There are building blocks to genocide. These are ideology, context, and a precipitating event.
In this case, you hear Trump talking about immigrants as vermin who are poisoning the blood of our country.
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So in this case, the Trump administration is using immigrants as a scapegoat for all of the problems that are actually created by oligarchy and globalization and capitalism and blaming immigrants as taking our jobs and destroying the fabric of our society, right? And that rhetoric will likely increase and become louder. And then we would need a precipitating event.
So in the build up to genocide, there are precursor events. These are often mass murders, massacres that are not genocide outright. But they are done to desensitize the non-targeted population…
At one point, she told followers:
“When you hear mass deportation, I want you to think of Jews in cattle cars… Armenians on death marches… that is what mass deportation is.”
Fast forward to January 21, 2026, just one day after President Trump was sworn back into office. The “Nope Brigade” posted an update from an Airbnb in British Columbia, claiming she was now a “refugee” in Canada.
She later clarified that she is not a refugee but someone who is on a tourist visa.
“To clarify, I am a visitor here until I can figure something more permanent out. Americans can’t claim asylum officially in Canada because the US is considered a safe country. The bureaucracy has not caught up to the reality of what’s happening.”
Comparing herself to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany on the St. Louis, she claimed she was “forced” to leave.
“You know, the Charlie Kirk assassination happened, and that was my crystal knock. I was like, that was it—that was the line.
Seeing the response to that—how they blamed trans people so fast—seeing the rhetoric around any political opposition from the left, you know, like Democrats that are basically centrists, and being somebody who’s actually on the left who would so easily be considered a terrorist because of all of my activism… You know, my partner is a labor organizer and a member of the DSA. We’ve got all of these check marks against us.
And I study this, right? I study Christian nationalism. I’ve studied genocide, you know. I have no illusions that the U.S. is in any way exceptional, that Americans are in any way different. People are like, “Oh, that could never happen here.” And I’m like, it’s already happened.”
The honeymoon period lasted exactly ten days.
On January 31, 2026, the “Nope Brigade” activist admitted that she is now “surviving off savings” and is “horrified” to find that Canada is facing a massive housing and cost-of-living crisis.
Even more shocking to this “intellectual” was the discovery that countries actually have rules for non-citizens. Because she entered on a visitor visa, she is legally barred from working and, wait for it, cannot access the “free” Canadian healthcare system.
After spent months lecturing Americans about “human rights” and “open borders,” the “Nope Brigade” is now begging for “free or below market rate” housing for herself, her partner, and her pets.
Nope Brigade: “I’m a scholar of the far right who has fled the United States to Canada, and I need help. The situation in Canada is absolutely dire for Americans who don’t know. The housing crisis here is worse than in the United States.
I lived in LA for six years, and I have not faced rent as bad as it is here. When my partner, our cat, and our dog fled the United States, we headed north with the goal of being close to where our families are located, which is on the West Coast.
So we are now in British Columbia. More specifically, we are along the Sea-to-Sky Highway in the Greater Vancouver area. We are attempting to find housing on the western side of this region. My partner and I are here on a visitor visa, which allows a possible six-month stay for Americans. However, while you’re here on a visitor visa, you can’t work.
So we are currently surviving off of whatever savings we could put together before we fled the United States—and that’s not terribly much.
In Canada, I think the cost-of-living crisis is actually worse here, especially when you are shut out of the health care system and can’t access any of the resources that Canadians have access to.
That’s understandable; I’m not a citizen of the country, but it is making the financial situation dire because we can’t work. Because there are two adults, a cat, and a dog, we are looking for more than just a room—ideally a one- or two-bedroom for free or below market rates.
I know that’s a huge ask, but that’s what we need. Canadians have been asking where I’m located and what I need, because you all are such lovely human beings. This is the ask: if you could help me by interacting with or reposting this video, I would very much appreciate it to get this out there.
As horrified as I am to be revealing my location, I really am trying to find a way to get us housing. So if you are on Vancouver Island, or in the Vancouver or Surrey area, with a one- or two-bedroom, let us know. We can pay rent, but it would probably have to be below market rate.
Please let me know if that’s possible. You can leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you, or DM me. I will be checking my messages regularly and paying very close attention to this post. If we can’t find housing, we’re going to have to leave, and I don’t know where we’ll go.”
BREAKING – Leftists who fled to Canada are now begging online for free housing after discovering the cost of living and health care are worse than in the US, saying they cannot work on visas, are burning through their savings, and are struggling to afford skyrocketing rent. pic.twitter.com/b3IWzviw0c
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 22, 2026
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