A Windsor judge on Thursday convicted a local man on a rare terrorism-related charge, finding him guilty of offering his “skill and expertise” to a violent, extremist white-supremacy group listed in Canada as a terrorist entity. Article content

Seth Bertrand, now 22 but only 18 at the time he filed an online application in 2021 to join the since-disbanded Atomwaffen Division, faces up to 10 years in prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for October. Article content Article content

“I’ll certainly be arguing to keep my client out of jail,” defence lawyer Bobby Russon told reporters after Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia delivered her hour-long decision.

The verdict came as “no shock” to him or his client, he said. But Russon insists the hateful views Bertrand once espoused

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