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☆ In Canada, a Judge Sentences an Incel Killer as a Terrorist
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The sword was inscribed with a sexist epithet and a note promoting an ideology of violence against women was found in the teenager’s pocket. With the evidence stacked against him, he pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder. But a Canadian judge ruled that the attacks were acts of terrorism, in part because the teenager wanted to send a message that he hated women. On Tuesday, the judge, Justice Suhail Akhtar, sentenced the teenager — who was 17 at the time of the attack — to life in prison though he would be eligible for parole after 10 years. Under Canadian juvenile justice law, his name cannot be published.

Persons: Justice Suhail Akhtar, — Locations: Toronto

☆ Canada Convicts White Supremacist in Killing of Four Muslims
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

For four seconds, Nathaniel Veltman floored the gas pedal, hurtling his pickup truck toward a Muslim family of five out for an evening walk in London, Ontario, killing four of them. The jury, after less than a day of deliberating, found Mr. Veltman, 22, guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder involving the young boy in the June 2021 attack. Mr. Veltman was also charged with terrorism and jurors heard extensive evidence about his fixation with white supremacist ideologies. But under Canadian law, jurors were not expected to deliver a verdict on that charge, which will be decided later by a judge. The case represents the first time in Canada that terrorism charges have been applied to a far-right extremism case, according to the government agency that prosecutes federal crimes.

Persons: Nathaniel Veltman, Veltman Locations: London , Ontario, Canada

☆ Peter Nygard, Former Fashion Mogul, Convicted of Sexual Assault
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Toronto jury on Sunday found Peter Nygard, the high-profile executive behind a fallen fashion empire, guilty of four counts of sexual assault after just over three days of deliberation at the end of a six-week trial. He was found not guilty of one count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement. The maximum prison sentence for sexual assault in Canada is 10 years. The verdict represents the first criminal conviction against Mr. Nygard, 82, who has been in jail for the last two years. Mr. Nygard appealed the New York extradition ruling in Winnipeg — his hometown and the former base of Nygard International, his clothing company — citing poor health, but the court has not yet issued its decision.

Persons: Peter Nygard, Nygard Organizations: Nygard International Locations: Toronto, Canada, Montreal, Winnipeg, New York, York

☆ A Once Powerful Fashion Executive Testifies in His Sexual Assault Trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Mr. Greenspan said that the defense’s evidence would “render the revisionist history which the complainants have provided inaccurate, unreliable and untrustworthy.”He told jurors that Mr. Nygard had waived his right to remain silent to testify in his own defense. At 82, his distinctive flowing hair was white and was pulled back into a large low bun, with a pair of orange tinted glasses sitting on his nose. “By necessity, we had to work to survive,” Mr. Nygard said, recalling his job at a textile factory under difficult conditions where his mother worked as a sewing machine operator. “The only way that you could have this type of success is that you would just outwork the next guy,” he later added. His company, which he founded in 1967, grew to 2,000 employees, competing with the likes of Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren, he said, popularizing a type of polyester that made him known as the “polyester king” and turned him into a celebrity in the fashion world.

Persons: Greenspan, ”, Nygard, Nygard’s, Mr, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren Locations: Finland, Winnipeg , Manitoba

☆ Peter Nygard, Disgraced Fashion Designer, Faces Trial in Toronto
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The NewsProsecutors in Canada will begin laying out their case on Tuesday in a Toronto courtroom against Peter Nygard, the founder of a fashion empire, two years after he was charged with sex crimes by Canadian police. Mr. Nygard, 82, has pleaded not guilty to five counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement involving five women. A jury at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in downtown Toronto will hear how the prosecutors believe that Mr. Nygard abused the women, whose identities are hidden by court-imposed publication bans to protect victims of sexual assault. Mr. Nygard was charged in Oct. 2021. Mr. Nygard has denied the allegations through his lawyers’ statements to the media.

Persons: Peter Nygard, Nygard Organizations: Prosecutors, Canadian, Ontario Superior Court of Justice Locations: Canada, Toronto

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on Tuesday firmly rejected the Indian government’s denial of any involvement in the assassination of a Sikh dissident in Canada, calling on India to take his country’s allegations seriously. “We are not looking to provoke or escalate,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa. “We are simply laying out the facts as we understand them and we want to work with the government of India.”On Monday, the prime minister stunned Canadians when he told the House of Commons that “agents of the Indian government” had been behind the shooting in June of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader and a Canadian citizen, near a Sikh temple in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia.

Persons: Justin Trudeau of, Mr, Trudeau, ”, Hardeep Singh Nijjar Organizations: Justin Trudeau of Canada, of Locations: Canada, India, Ottawa, Canadian, Vancouver, British Columbia

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that “agents of the Indian government” carried out the killing of a Sikh community leader in British Columbia last June. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Trudeau said that he raised India’s involvement in the shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar directly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Group of 20 summit meeting earlier this month “in no uncertain terms.” He said the allegation was based on intelligence gathered by the Canadian government. “Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” Mr. Trudeau told lawmakers. He said Canada would pressure India to cooperate with the investigation into the killing. Mélanie Joly, the foreign minister, later announced that Canada had expelled an Indian diplomat whom she described as “the head” of Indian intelligence in Canada.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, ”, Trudeau, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Narendra Modi, ” Mr, Mélanie Joly Organizations: British Columbia, Group, Canadian Locations: British, Canada, India, Indian

Canada’s wildfire plague widened on Friday, with Yellowknife’s 20,000 residents rushing to meet a deadline to evacuate, while blazes hundreds of miles away threatened Kelowna, a much larger city in British Columbia. The mass migration from Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, was the biggest mandatory evacuation so far in Canada’s summer of wildfire disasters. By midday, it remained unclear how many of Yellowknife’s residents had heeded the order as an encroaching fire loomed, but parts of the city appeared empty and most stores appeared closed. In Kelowna, a major resort area, homes on its suburban fringes were on fire and orders to evacuate were decreed in a community where several homes were destroyed on Thursday night and others were burning on Friday.

Locations: Kelowna, British Columbia, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

☆ Missing From Your Facebook News Feed: Canadian News
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It could be months before an escalating fight between Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, and the Canadian government gets resolved, but Matthew DiMera, publisher of a Canadian news organization, is already feeling the pain. Mr. DiMera tried to create an Instagram post featuring a news article by his outlet, The Resolve — something news organizations do routinely to promote their work. Instead, he said, he was greeted by the message: “People in Canada can’t see your content,”Meta this week began blocking news from appearing on its platforms in Canada, the latest twist in its standoff with the government over a new law that will require technology companies to compensate domestic publishers for using their content. The law comes at a time when the news industry in Canada, as in much of the world, is shrinking under the pressure of lower advertising revenues, and depends on social networks for much of its readership. “Instagram has been a really great platform for us to connect with people, so losing that is really a huge concern for us,” said Mr. DiMera, who started The Resolve in 2021 to report stories on Black, Indigenous and racially diverse communities.

Persons: Matthew DiMera, DiMera, “ Instagram, ” Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Canadian Locations: Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced on Wednesday that he and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, had separated after 18 years of marriage. The Trudeaus, who have three children, have “signed a legal separation agreement,” according to a statement released by the prime minister’s office. For the well-being of our children, we ask that you respect our privacy and their privacy,” Mr. Trudeau said in a post on Instagram. He added that they had decided to separate “after many meaningful and difficult conversations.”Mr. Trudeau’s wife and children have played a prominent role in his political career, often accompanying him on trips overseas after he was elected prime minister in 2015. Their children are Xavier, 15, Ella-Grace, 14, and Hadrien, 9.

Persons: Justin Trudeau of, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, “, Mr, Trudeau, ” Mr, Trudeau’s, Xavier, Ella, Grace Organizations: Justin Trudeau of Canada

☆ Up in Smoke: Canada’s Outdoor Summer Season
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Vjosa Isai | More About Vjosa Isai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fishing trips to Canada are a tradition for Jeffrey Hardy and his three friends from Vermont. They have, since 2001, been anglers loyal to Quebec’s northern wilderness, where the walleye are plentiful and the cellphone service is not. This summer, the crisp forest air coveted by recreationists visiting Canada was instead polluted with smoke as wildfires have torn through millions of acres, blocking roads, destroying campgrounds and forcing tourism operators to scramble during peak season. “Everybody was excited to go because Canada had been shut down for all of Covid.”The country’s worst wildfire season on record is straining the outdoor segments of Canada’s tourism industry at a crucial time in its rebound from years of pandemic travel restrictions. Of the 28.6 million acres that have burned across the country so far, more than 11.6 million acres were in Quebec, the most of any province, according to data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.

Persons: Jeffrey Hardy, ”, Hardy Organizations: recreationists, Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Locations: Canada, Vermont, St, Albans, Vt, Bermuda, Quebec

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