Unpublished Newswire

A man who said he planned on bombing every synagogue in Toronto to “to kill as many Jews as possible” was sentenced to house arrest Monday after a sentencing hearing that heard of the terror and fear his vivid threats caused. Waisuddin Akbari, 41, was ordered to stay at home for 60 days, followed by three years of probation, after voicing clear, hate-filled threats last year. The “light sentence” shows the urgent need to reform Canada’s hate crime laws, said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, a director with the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. “At a time of rampant...