Editor of Your Ward News Faces Trumped up Charges

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http://www.yourwardnews.ca/


By Laura HowellsSTAFF REPORTER
Wed., June 21, 2017

Editor, publisher of ‘highly offensive’ publication face criminal charge, couple says

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/...ication-face-criminal-charge-couple-says.html


Charges laid by a private prosecution process (text imbedded on images), or not mentioned at all by kosher media.

A Toronto couple have brought a criminal complaint against the editor and publisher of Your Ward News, a controversial publication that Canada Post has been banned from delivering and that Toronto police have investigated for hate crimes.
Lisa and Warren Kinsella said a justice of the peace agreed Wednesday morning to charge editor James Sears and publisher Leroy St. Germaine with uttering threats.
Sears said in an email to the Star that he can’t comment on specifics, but called it a “mischievous, impotent complaint” and suggested the court was lacking important information.
“My legal team and I will mop the floor with the Kinsellas on our first available opportunity in court, but in the meantime, we will enjoy the free publicity that Daisy Group has once again garnered for Your Ward News!,” Sears said in the email, referring to the company run by the Kinsellas.
The Kinsellas, who have campaigned against Your Ward News, said they were concerned with an article in the current edition, in which Sears suggests his followers may decide to “bludgeon the Kinsellas to death.”
“Not only was this comment meant to intimidate and silence us from speaking out, it was also a genuine threat, I felt, against my family,” Lisa Kinsella said in a phone interview.
“What’s appeared . . . we believe has crossed the line into uttering threats and criminal territory.”
Lisa Kinsella said she originally went to police about the alleged threat on June 9 but they told her they did not have grounds to press charges.

Kinsella with trophy wife

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/your-ward-news-james-sears-sentenced-1.5256452

Editor of Your Ward News gets 1 year in jail for promoting hatred
James Sears was found guilty in January of promoting hatred against women and Jews
Posted: Aug 22, 2019 3:10 PM ET

The editor of a Toronto-based publication was handed the maximum one-year jail sentence on Thursday for promoting hatred against women and Jews.

In sentencing James Sears, Ontario court Judge Richard Blouin said he would have handed down a much stiffer sentence had the law allowed.

"It is impossible, in my view, to conclude that Mr. Sears ... should receive a sentence of any less than 18 months in jail,"
Blouin said.
"Mr. Sears ... promoted hate to a vast audience in an era where online exposure to this material inexorably leads to extremism and the potential of mass casualties."

Your Ward News hate case put over to Aug. 22 as judge delays sentencing

The sentencing of the editor of Your Ward News, who had sought to reopen his trial, came after Blouin rejected Sears's arguments that his lawyer had thrown the case. Sears, 55, who had gone into the courtroom expressing confidence that the case would be again put over, looked stunned at the sudden turn of events and quietly shook his head.
Found guilty in January

"Don't worry honey," he told his wife, who was carrying a child, as officers handcuffed him and led him from the courtroom.

"That's not right," one supporter said from the back of the courtroom before leaving in tears.

Blouin had found Sears and Your Ward News publisher LeRoy St. Germaine, 77, guilty in January of two hate counts each.

Evidence was that the free publication was distributed over three years to more than 300,000 homes and businesses in the Toronto area as well as online.

It consistently portrayed women as inferior and as inviting rape. It also promoted tropes of Jews drinking the blood of Christian children and denied the Holocaust occurred. Those themes continued even after the trial started, Blouin noted.

The Crown had called for the maximum six months on each count for a total one year for Sears.

The judge did deny a prosecution probation request to bar Sears from publishing Your Ward News. Such a ban would violate the constitutional right to free expression, Blouin said.

"Mr. Sears should be free to publish whatever he wishes, even if unpopular and objectionable, as long as his words do not offend the Criminal Code," Blouin said.