A woman keeps a candle during a vigil at Orem City Center Park, after U.S. right-wing activist and commentator, Charlie Kirk, was fatally shot.

Michael Mallinson had never met Charlie Kirk, nor had he ever heard the name of the American right-wing commentator who was shot dead in broad daylight at a Utah college event on Wednesday.

But the retired Torontonian has done some research about him after his death.

“I gather that he appeals to young conservatives. I’m an old socialist. I guess that’s the best way I could put it,” Mallinson said in a phone interview.

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