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Gay Pride in, Christian Music Out At Parks Canada in Halifax: Christian Rocker’s Performance Cancelled

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Permit revoked for MAGA musician’s concert at Parks Canada site, but show will go on

Cancelled for “safety” reasons. Isn’t that’s what cops are for?

Parks Canada rescinded approval of permit due to ‘evolving safety and security considerations’

Aly Thomson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 23, 2025 6:07 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

A casually dressed man sings into a microphone with one arm raised in the air.
Musician Sean Feucht preaches during the final stop of ‘Kingdom to the Capitol’ prayer rally at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza, outside the Arizona State Capitol, in Phoenix on Oct. 19, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

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Parks Canada says a U.S. singer and rising star in the MAGA movement will not perform at a national historic site near Halifax after the federal agency revoked the organizer’s permit, but the show is slated to go on at a new venue.

Christian rocker Sean Feucht was scheduled to play a concert on Wednesday night at the York Redoubt National Historic Site, a fortification constructed in 1793 to help protect the port city.

Feucht, who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Congress as a Republican in 2020, is also a missionary and an author who has spoken out against the 2SLGBTQ+ community, abortion rights and critical race theory on his website.

Residents who live near the site and throughout the province had raised concerns about the performance, which they argued went against Parks Canada’s guiding principles of inclusion and safety for all visitors. Some had planned to stage a protest at the concert.

In a news release late Tuesday, Parks Canada stressed that the event was not being put on by the agency, but rather was being hosted by a permit holder.

A drone shot of a fortification on a hill overlooking the ocean.
York Redoubt was constructed in 1793 at the entrance of the Halifax Harbour to help protect the port city. (Parks Canada)

It said due to “evolving safety and security considerations” based on the planned protests, input from police and security challenges with the configuration of York Redoubt, Parks Canada has reassessed the conditions of the permit and the potential impact to community members, visitors, concert attendees and event organizers.

“After careful review, and due to heightened public safety concerns, Parks Canada has notified the organizer that the permit has been revoked,” it said in a statement issued just after 11 p.m. AT.

Feucht did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

Silver tour bus parked near a wooded area
Sean Feucht’s tour bus in Shubenacadie, N.S., on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (CBC)

In a video on his Facebook page late Wednesday morning, Feucht noted that people have been gathering for Halifax Pride Festival events over the past week, “but now they’re not so tolerant when peaceful Christians come together.”

“This is not the hour to cower. This is not the hour to bow down to the mob. No, we need to rise up. And so tonight, we are going to gather,” he said.

“The show’s going on, baby.”

On Wednesday morning, the event page said the show would go ahead at a “new location that’s even better than the old one,” and asks people to send a direct message for the venue.

The free concert will now take place at a location in Shubenacadie, N.S., a rural area about 60 kilometres north of Halifax. That address is associated with a religious group called Lighthouse Ministries.

N.S. show kicks off summer tour

Feucht has called for government policy in the United States to be based on traditional Christian values in the midst of a “spiritual war” in that country.  

His website calls on young people to stand up against the “progressive agenda being forced upon America.”

Feucht’s show in Nova Scotia kicks off his “Revive in 25” tour across Canada, but the singer has also been facing backlash in other cities. 

Shows were cancelled Wednesday in three other provinces, including a performance scheduled for Thursday in Charlottetown. The city said it had revoked the permit “due to evolving public safety and security concerns.” 

Another concert planned for Thursday in Moncton, N.B., was scrapped when that city cancelled the booking. It said a review found Feucht’s event did not comply with the code of conduct for city facilities. 

The plug was also pulled on a Quebec City performance planned for the weekend. In a statement, a spokesperson for the city said that “the presence of a controversial artist was not mentioned in the contract” between the venue and the promoter.

Feucht was scheduled to play over the weekend in the Ottawa and Toronto areas. He will take his tour to Western Canada in late August.

Activist Fined $5,000 for Standing in Front of City Bus Decked Out in Homosexual Colours

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Activist Fined $5,000 for Standing in Front of City Bus Decked Out in Homosexual Colours

Kyle McKee is a long-time White rights activist in Calgary, Alberta. Some years ago, he headed up the Aryan Guardthat staged a number of White Pride marches. Huffington Post Alberta (August 31, 2015) reported: “A Calgary Transit driver, who created controversy over his refusal to drive a rainbow Pride bus, claims he’s become the target of unfounded allegations at work. ‘I feel like people at Calgary Transit are now against me because I stand firmly for my Christian faith and won’t compromise my values,’ said [Jesse] Rau in a news release on Sunday. The annual Calgary Pride Festival kicks off this week, and a Calgary Transit bus has been wrapped in a rainbow flag as a show of support. But Rau publicly said he would have to quit his job if he was assigned to drive the bus because it goes against his Christian beliefs.

On Monday, Rau’s pastor said that the driver was told that a complaint had been filed against him, alleging that he was texting while driving on the job. ‘I am very careful not to text while driving,’ Rau said, refuting the allegation. ‘I am aware that public transit is a blessing to many and I always want to keep the people on my bus safe and secure. It seems like I am being targeted for speaking out for my faith.’ Rau’s pastor, Artur Pawlowski, also alleged thatCalgary Transit had been monitoring Rau’s personal Facebook page. He said the bus driver has stopped using the social platform altogether because he’s afraid of losing his job. Rau is still under probation with Calgary Transit as he’s only been working for the company for less than a year, said CTV News.”

Kyle decided to show solidarity with the beleaguered bus driver and engaged in a brief act of non-violent civil disobedience. He briefly stood in front of the rainbow bagged bus and blocked its way. Four carloads of Calgary’s finest descended on him and issued him a $5,000 (that’s right, five thousand) ticket! He’s accused, in cop speak, of “prevent or interfere with operation of a transit vehicle.” His court date is November 3, 2015.


Mr. McKee explains: “Recently there was a story all over the news about an issue of a Calgary transit driver claiming that it would be against his religion to promote the homosexual life choices by driving a bus that was decked out in a rainbow wrap. The driver was attacked all over the mainstream media and social media for standing up for his convictions. It was as if his religious rights were far less important than those of the gay community. So, I took it upon myself to take a stand and position myself in front of the bus to prevent it from driving. This ended with the police sending four cars lights flashing to give me a ticket worth $5,000.”

Too bad Kyle isn’t a native Indian.
Nothing would have happened to him. As a form of protest, Indian protesters regularly block roads and railway lines for days at a time. They are seldom arrested. Indeed, during the protests by the curiously named Idle No More Indians (it didn’t mean they’d gotten jobs, just gone out marching and protesting) police regularly brought coffee to Indians blocking rail lines near Sarnia, Ontario. Of course, Julian Fantino, the loser of Caledonia when he was head of theOntario Provincial Police, did nothing when armed radical Indians occupied private land in Caledonia. They assaulted Whites and blocked access at times to these Whites’ own homes. Still, the police were more interested in intimidating and chasing away Whites who held protests against the occupation and the police inaction.