Criminal charges laid against men behind controversial newspaper banned by Canada Post
TORONTO — Two Toronto residents said they brought a criminal complaint against a controversial publication the federal government deemed too offensive to distribute in the mail.
Warren and Lisa Kinsella, who are political strategists and activists, said a justice of the peace agreed Wednesday to charge the two men behind “Your Ward News” with uttering threats.
The pair said the charges stem from the publication’s latest issue, in which editor James Sears writes that his supporters may decide to “bludgeon the Kinsellas to death.”
Last year, the federal government ordered Canada Post to stop delivering “Your Ward News” after the then-minister of public services and procurement found it “highly offensive and well outside the norm of Canadian values.”