{"id":9319,"date":"2024-01-08T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2024-01-08T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T02:10:17","slug":"leroy-st-germaine-november-4-1941-december-182023-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9319","title":{"rendered":"LeRoy St. Germaine (November 4, 1941-December 18,2023) — R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LeRoy St. Germaine (November 4, 1941-December 18,2023) –_R.I.P.<\/strong>

A free speech martyr and former political prisoner, LeRoy St.
Germaine, passed away in hospice in Toronto, December 18, at
the age of 82. The founder and publisher of Your Ward News,
he was convicted in 2019, along with editor Dr. James Sears,
under Canada\u2019s notorious \u201chate law\u201d (Sec. 319 of the Criminal
Code) for \u201cwilful promotion of hate\u201d against two privileged
groups, Jews and radical feminists. Being a proud Metis, Mr. St.
Germaine was entitled to a reduced sentence because of his
aboriginal background. Judge Richard Blouin urged him to
consider some form of dialogue and apology with Jews and
feminists the paper had allegedly offended. When asked Mr. St.
Germaine\u2019s decision, his lawyer told the judge in a low voice:
\u201cMy client said \u2018They can go fuck themselves!\u2019\u201d He was
sentenced to a year\u2019s house arrest; editor Dr. Sears got a year in
jail, the maximum under summary conviction for this offence.
Canada\u2019s premier censorship group, the League for Human
Rights of B\u2019nai Brith rejoiced: \u201cThis\u00a0strong sentence was
necessary to send a clear message\u00a0\u2014 that repeated and
remorseless attempts to spread hate in Canadian society will not
be tolerated,\u201d said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of
B\u2019nai\u00a0Brith\u00a0Canada. \u201cThe punishment fits the\u00a0crime, and\u00a0should
help to deter similar hateful publications today and in the future.\u201d

LeRoy St. Germaine was born in Manitoba. He held many jobs,
including working in circuses in the U.S. He was a tireless
promoter of musicians and music festivals. He was a fixture for
many years in the East End of Toronto and always promoted
local musicians. In 2011, he founded Your Ward News<\/u><\/strong> as a
tabloid in East End Toronto. His longtime friend and
Canadians\u2019 Choice Party leader Bahman Yazdanfer
remembers: \u201cThe paper took strong stands on local issues and
went after certain politicians quite fiercely. LeRoy was always
cool and calm, even after antifa thugs had vandalized the Main
Street offices of Your Ward News.<\/u><\/strong> LeRoy was very sociable and
very generous with his friends,\u201d Mr. Yazdanfer recalls. In 2014,
he teamed up with Dr. James Sears who took the paper in a new
direction, with wildly satirical cartoons and writing. The paper
often criticized radical feminists and the Jewish lobby in
brilliantly satirical writing reminiscent of the National
Lampoon. At its peak, YWN<\/u><\/strong> was distributing 350,000 copies
across Ontario and its fame was spreading. The organized
censorship lobby freaked out. Richard Warman, scribbler
Warren Kinsella and various Jewish groups complained and got
YWN\u2019s mailing rights taken away. Shortly afterward, Mr. St.
Germaine and Dr. Sears were charged with \u201chate\u201d. Mr. St.
Germaine was deeply loyal. Although in poor health, at age 79
he joined a regular CAF\u00c9 protest outside the south Toronto jail
where Dr. Sears was imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his business card, he dubbed himself “Grey Wolf.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Erstikaitis, whom he hired as a reporter, remembers: “LeRoy St. Germaine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

was a man who was full of ideas. He was always planning an activity or a Blues\\<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival.. He had a musical stage production company called Infinity Productions. In<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the last few months of his life he was looking forward to working with Truckers’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich, hoping to collaborate on a project together <\/p>\n\n\n\n

he referred to mischievously as their ‘coupling’ as ‘Fellow troublemakers conspiring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

together.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leroy’s ambition will be missed. He was certainly not a man who welcomed retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right up to the month prior to his hospitalization, he was working on organizing a ‘celebration of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

life’ for his brother with whom he had been very close. who had just passed away.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeRoy\u2019s wide circle of friends will miss him dearly. A celebration of his life will be held in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
LeRoy Supporint Political Prisoner Dr. James Sears & CAFE Director Paul Fromm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
LeRoy with rock thrown through window of YOUR WARD NEWS by antifa goons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LeRoy St. Germaine (November 4, 1941-December 18,2023) –_R.I.P. A free speech martyr and former political prisoner, LeRoy St.Germaine, passed away in hospice in Toronto, December 18, atthe age of 82. The founder and publisher of Your Ward News,he was convicted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,545,358,16,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9322,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}