A 29-year-old man from Thorold, Ont., stood in a downtown Toronto courtroom Thursday admitting to three terrorism charges involving a neo-Nazi militant accelerationist group called “Autowaffen Division” (AWD).

Matthew Althorpe, who has been in custody since his arrest in December 2023, turned and looked to the gallery where a number of people, including a woman holding a baby, watched on.

The baby said “dada” as Althorpe waved to the child.

Reading from a 32-page agreed statement of facts, federal prosecutor Amber Pashuk detailed the investigation into Althorpe, which began in June 2022 when the RCMP commenced an investigation, dubbed Project Sepia, to look activities involving Althorpe and his associates.

The investigation focused on Althorpe’s role in creating three separate propag

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