Speaking at a Toronto Police Services Board meeting, police Chief Myron Demkiw called the charge “unprecedented,” noting the “very high threshold” to charge anyone with a hate propaganda offence.
At the height of the cold war, a statement like Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning to the west that his country is militarily and technically ready to deploy its nuclear arsenal would have shaken the world to its core.
B.C.’s appeal court has upheld a decision that saw an accused killer acquitted after the exclusion of key evidence because of the “egregious” way police ignored the laws of search and seizure.