In a statement to the judge as he sought to stave off a jail sentence, James Sears argued Your Ward News gave hope to the otherwise voiceless. “I’m approached on a regular basis by angry men, and sometimes women, that Your Ward News gave them a voice when no one else would,” Sears told Ontario court Judge Richard Blouin. We’re just trying to open a discussionBlouin said he would sentence Sears on May 31. “By delivering Your Ward News to our door, they were saying there was nowhere to feel safe,” Whitford cited one Jewish resident as saying. But Sears’ lawyer Dean Embry called his client a first-time offender, saying no record existed of any convictions or of a pardon.

Source: National Post April 27, 2019 04:30 UTC