James Nicholas Sears was born on Dimitrious Sarafopoulos; September 14,1963 and is a Canadian neo-Nazi who was convicted of willful promotion of hatred in 2019.
17 Facts About James Sears
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The newspaper, titled Your Ward News, was barred from distribution by Canada Post in 2016, and James Sears was convicted of willful promotion of hate on January 24,2019.
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James Sears was sentenced to imprisonment for one year on August 22,2019.
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James Sears was released on parole on October 14,2021, and was arrested again for violating his parole conditions on February 3,2022.
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James Sears was trained as a physician and described himself as a retired Canadian Armed Forces Medical Officer.
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James Sears started the Second Opinion Medical-Legal Consultants Group in 1994, offering "medical investigative services" such as medical background checks for the prospective employees of its clients and research for parties to medical malpractice suits.
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James Sears claimed as of 2005 to be the co-owner of Toronto mortgage broker Trillium Mortgage.
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In 2014, in campaign materials supporting his run for Toronto city council, In an article describing hate mail allegedly sent from Your Ward News to Toronto city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, Torontoist reported that as of 2015 James Sears was merely an employee of the brokerage.
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James Sears was known for his activities as a pickup artist using the pseudonym "Dimitri the Lover" selling courses that claimed to train men in how to seduce women.
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James Sears is editor-in-chief of Your Ward News, a quarterly newspaper which promotes the New Constitution Party, an unregistered neo-Nazi political party led by James Sears.
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The Crown asked that James Sears be given a one-year jail sentence and an additional three years' probation during which James Sears would be prohibited from publishing any material.
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James Sears was ordered to surrender himself that afternoon to begin serving his sentence.
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James Sears was arrested again on February 3,2022, for violating his parole conditions.
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James Sears's campaign included a website with an interactive animation that asked users to choose one of three playable characters, Rob Ford, Vladimir Putin or Adolf Hitler to "spank" the bare bottom of a cartoon caricature of city councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon, Sears's rival in the election.
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James Sears ran in the 2015 federal election as an independent candidate and placed fifth out of seven candidates, getting 254 votes.
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James Sears was a candidate for the Canadians' Choice Party in the 2018 provincial election running against Attorney General Yasir Naqvi in Ottawa Centre.
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James Sears placed last out of eight candidates with 92 votes.