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Thea Coburn: The Latest Victim of of Woke Censorship & Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s Sordid Spy Tactics 11015

Thea Coburn: The Latest Victim of of Woke Censorship & Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s Sordid Spy Tactics

Thea Coburn is a violinist and, until February 18, the operations manager for the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to a gutless employer and the sleazy tactics of a taxpayer-funded hit squad, she’s now out of work. Back in July, she attended “Exiles of the Golden Age’ a meeting that some have branded a “White nationalist” event hundreds of miles away in Vancouver. Skulking around was someone taking pictures for the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN). CAHN is largely funded by the federal government and, during the orgy of Black Lives Matter nonsense in 2021, by the Bank of Montreal to the tune of $500,000. CAHN is a severe threat to freedom of speech. It’s not “hate” they oppose but right-of-centre ideology. 

Back in December, CAHN published the photos of attendees they couldn’t identify and urged their supporters to rat out anyone there they knew. ” Our investigation included images of over 50 organizers and attendees of the conference, 20 of whom we were able to identify. We asked for the public’s help in making more identifications, and were overwhelmed by the response,” says their website. The STASI would have been proud. Thea was duly outed, her employer sus[pended her and “investigated.” This week, she was gone. Evan Balgord, executive director of CAHN boasts: ” “We always hope that the end result of this is that it sends a broader message to the whole community that this kind of behavior is unpopular and unacceptable.” In other words, the price of holding views CAHN disapproves of is poverty and being fired.
Artists, whether painters, poets,musicians or writers, of all people should appreciate the importance of freedom of thought and freedom of speech.The termination of Thea Coburn means orchestra employees can only hold”acceptable” views. That’s not freedom. Oh, yes, the PGSO, boasts that it “values diversity and inclusion.” Well, not diversity of values pursued on one’s own time, away from the workplace, and clearly not inclusion of loyal hard working employee Thea Coburn!

A Prince George symphony manager leaves role after presence at white nationalist event

Canadian Anti-Hate Network identified Thea Coburn walking to July event alongside conference organizers

A woman in a green skirt holding coffees and carrying a violin case on her back crosses the street alongside two men dressed in black.
Prince George Symphony Orchestra operations manager Thea Coburn was filmed carrying a violin case while walking into the Exiles of the Golden Age conference with organizers Robertson De Chazal and Karsen Miller in July 2025. (Canadian Anti-Hate Network)

The Prince George Symphony Orchestra (PGSO) says its operations manager is no longer with the organization following her apparent attendance at a white nationalist conference that took place in Vancouver last summer. 

In January, the PGSO placed its operations manager, Thea Coburn, on paid administrative leave as it investigated her presence at the conference.

PGSO executive director Ken Hall said the organization has now terminated Coburn’s current contract without cause.

“Parting in the end was amicable. We both decided we needed to go in a different direction,” he said.

The non-profit Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), which studies far-right extremism in Canada, filmed Coburn, who’s also a violinist, walking into the Scottish Cultural Centre in Vancouver, where a conference called Exiles of the Golden Age was taking place on July 26, 2025.

The organization identified her walking alongside two of the conference’s organizers, including Robertson De Chazal, whom CBC News has previously reported on as the co-owner of a white supremacist clothing brand.

The video, which has been viewed by CBC News, shows Coburn carrying a violin case as she walks into the event. 

CAHN says some of the organizers of the conference are affiliated with the Hammerskins. … CBC’s visual investigations team worked to identify some attendees of the event including MMA coaches and gym owners, in a story published last year.

Coburn was one of four more people identified by CAHN after the network asked members of the public to help identify the remaining photographs it had of attendees.

Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said they asked Coburn for comment but she did not respond or offer any explanation. CBC News has also repeatedly asked Coburn for comment, but received no response. 

A woman in a long green skirt walks down the street with two bald men dressed in black.
Thea Coburn was identified by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network after she was filmed entering the event with organizers Robertson De Chazal and Karsen Miller, carrying a violin case. (Canadian Anti-Hate Network)

Publicly funded organization

Coburn was listed on the PGSO’s website as their operations manager, as well as a violinist. In a Facebook video introducing her in the role in September 2024, Coburn said she helped run the box office as well as handled contracts and production for both rehearsals and performances.

The PGSO is a professional, community-based orchestra that receives grant funding from the City of Prince George. In a statement, the organization said it had no prior knowledge of the CAHN report or of Coburn’s attendance and was only made aware of the report by a patron on the afternoon of Dec. 22, 2025.

“We ask for the public’s patience during our investigation process but reaffirm that the PGSO values diversity and inclusion. We are committed to upholding the values of universal human rights, fair treatment, and equal opportunity for all,” the organization said in a statement to CBC News, during its internal investigation. 

It has now completed the internal review and said that as of Feb. 10, Coburn is “no longer with the organization” and that temporary arrangements have been made to ensure continuity of operations. The PGSO said that as this is a personnel matter, the organization will not be providing further comment. 

In 2025, the PGSO was one of four arts organizations to receive an equal share of $200,000 in arts funding from the city. It also receives grants from the provincial and federal governments and practises and performs in Vanier Hall, an auditorium connected to Prince George Secondary School. 

The City of Prince George said it was not involved in the internal investigation and that its funding agreement with the organization is focused on maintaining the symphony’s not-for-profit status and compliance with B.C.’s Societies Act. 

“There is nothing within the city’s grant guidelines or the multiyear funding grant agreement (this is the agreement that the City signs with organizations that receive existing/on-going multiyear funding such as the PGSO) that would warrant us to be involved with reviewing the funding relationship with PGSO at this stage,” the city said in a statement. 

The name of the conference Coburn attended, “Exiles of the Golden Age,” appears in a passage from The Lightning and the Sun, a 1958 book by Savitri Devi, a  writer who espoused a cyclical view of history where humanity will once again enter a “golden age” after going through a period of darkness and decay. …

According to Balgord and CAHN, the event was advertised almost exclusively online in white nationalist sites and social media.

Balgord says the CAHN’s goal in naming attendees of the conference is to discourage people from joining far-right extremist movements. 

“We always hope that the end result of this is that it sends a broader message to the whole community that this kind of behavior is unpopular and unacceptable.” (CBC News, February 18, 2026)