Miriam Toews and Omar El Akkad shortlisted for Writers’ Trust non-fiction prize

This story was originally published on The Montreal Gazette A 24-year-old man who assaulted a Hasidic Jewish father in front of his three young children at a Montreal park has been found not criminally responsible. The ruling, made by a Quebec Court judge Monday, comes after a psychiatric assessment found that Sergio Yanes Preciado was suffering from a mental disorder, likely schizophrenia, at the time of the attack and was incapable of understanding that his actions were wrong. Preciado had been charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm after the Aug. 8 attack in the...