The editor and publisher of Your Ward News, James Sears, 55, and LeRoy St. Germaine, 77, have been found guilty of promoting hatred against women and Jews. The much-disliked publication had previously been banned from delivery by Canada Post. YWN has continued to be delivered unsolicited to doorsteps in Midtown by paid delivery. In his finding, Judge Richard Blouin, of the Ontario Court of Justice, called evidence of guilt overwhelming. The convicted men had argued YWN was meant to be satire but Blouin found nothing funny about their views. If what they were doing didn’t amount to wilful hate promotion, the judge said, nothing would. “YWN repeatedly and consistently dehumanized Jews and women,” Blouin said in his ruling. “Both men were fully aware of the unrelenting promotion of hate.” In 2017 at the time charges The South Bayview Bulldog called YWN “a journalistically scatter-brained giveaway which many find incoherent. But it’s headlines and stories frequently flirt with ideas that people of both genders and of all backgrounds find offensive.” The Canadian Press story by Colin Perkel has ignited a long thread of comments which range predictably from the revulsion felt by many for YWN to thoughtful concern about limitations on free speech.