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Publication Date: April 22, 2026 - 13:01
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Teen accused of terror plot invites judge to find him guilty — but it's not a guilty plea
April 22, 2026
A now 17-year-old accused alongside another teen of plotting to violently attack Jewish people in Ottawa has invited a Superior Court judge to find him guilty — an unusual move that's akin to the "no-contest" plea common in U.S. criminal courts, and one that means he would accept punishment without admitting guilt.
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April 25, 2026 - 07:30 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
An Ontario judge whittled 13 months off a 14-year sentence for a man who shot two people due to the Muslim shooter’s youth, racial discrimination he experienced growing up in Toronto, and harsh pretrial jail conditions.
A jury in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice convicted Yousaf Bilal Sheikh, 24, on two counts of attempted murder for shooting Mallory Walia and Ameen Jazei inside a white Porsche while he was in the front passenger seat on the evening of Nov. 29, 2022.
“It is implicit in the jury’s verdict that Mr. Sheikh intended to kill two people, Mr. Jazei and Ms. Walia. The...
April 25, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
In 2000, David Napier, a freelance journalist then based in Toronto, produced a long story about Indigenous residential schools. It appeared in the Anglican Journal, an “independent” newspaper of the Anglican Church with a large circulation (now about 38,000). The Journal’s editor, David Harris, recruited Napier at the suggestion of former Saturday Night magazine editor John Fraser to spend a year criss-crossing the country to find out what had transpired in residential schools and tell the stories of any survivors and staff who would speak with him.
Napier’s groundbreaking story...
April 25, 2026 - 06:30 | Elaine Dewar | Walrus
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