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A planned anti-immigration rally, whose organizers have celebrated the violence in Charlottesville, Va., scheduled for Saturday in Vancouver is expected to be dwarfed in numbers by a counter-protest organized by Stand Up to Racism Metro Vancouver.

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Saturday’s rally, scheduled for 2 p.m. outside Vancouver City Hall, is being organized by the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam’s Canadian chapter (WCAI Canada) and the Cultural Action Party of Canada (CAP), according to an event Facebook page.

Postmedia’s Nick Eagland reported that one of the rally’s organizers — a man using the name Chadd Beneteau on Facebook — shared a meme on his personal page with the message “GOOD NIGHT LEFT SIDE” that depicts the same make and model of car that killed Heather Heyer and injured others who were protesting against a white supremacist rally last weekend in Charlottesville.

The group behind that meme, WCAI USA, also posted a video clip of the incident with a caption saying “Finally Antifa got what they deserved.”

Meanwhile, on the Facebook page for Saturday’s anti-racism counter protest, Oppose the Racists in Metro Vancouver!, more than 2,500 people have indicated that they plan to attend to demonstration.

The anti-racism rally is scheduled for 12:45 to 4 p.m. outside Vancouver City Hall.

Mayor Gregor Robertson has spoken out in support of the anti-racism rally.