A young woman is left troubled and worried for her safety after finding three ‘alt-right’ propaganda flyers posted around the parking lot of the Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket Monday.

The woman, who is bi-racial and in her early 20s, has asked not to be identified by name. She works two jobs at the mall. She uses public transit to get to work and after walking off the bus at the mall stop near Davis Drive Monday morning, she noticed a white flyer with black lettering taped to a tree. The flyer started with the phrase “Hey White People”, before posing a series of questions to the reader about political correctness, diversity meaning “less white” people, stopping immigration and being accused of racism for celebrating a person’s heritage.

This flyer then encourages white residents to join the "alt-right" movement and lists a number of websites containing anti-diversity, white supremacist, nationalist and bigoted posts.

“Immediately, it clued into me what this was,” she said. “It was very hateful. I couldn’t stop shaking. I was horrified that this was happening at a place I thought was safe, accepting and welcoming of other people. It felt like an attack on peoples’ colour and that’s not OK. My family’s really upset by it. I’m really shaken up. It’s really important to me to preach love and acceptance. We’re all people; we all go through struggles. To make someone feel smaller for things beyond their control is so petty.”

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The woman ripped the flyer off the tree, before noticing two additional pieces of propaganda taped to the bus shelter — one showed a man, his hands in shackles with the phrase “White Guilt” strung between, in an apparent effort to represent chains through metaphor. The flyer tells the reader to free themselves from “Cultural Marxism”, before providing a link to another far right website.

Since the woman travels the route frequently, she believes the flyers were put up Sunday night. The discovery now makes her feel uncomfortable walking between the bus stop and the mall.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” the woman said. “I don’t want to get political, but with what’s been going on in the world lately, I’ve been on edge. This is a really scary thing and it’s happening close to where we live.”

Later that day, she found another flyer taped to a telephone pole on the south side of Davis Drive, near the Eagle Street intersection.

The woman has reported the incident to mall security, but has not reported the matter to York Regional Police.

She has lived in northern York Region for most of her life and has never experienced this type of premeditated bigotry.