Winnipeg Man Pleads Guilty to Promoting Genocide and Hate Online

In Winnipeg, Jason Paul Rindall, aged in his mid-fifties, pleaded guilty to two serious offences: advocating genocide and wilfully promoting hatred against Muslim and Jewish communities, based on a series of extremist posts he made on the platform X. A related charge of uttering threats toward Prime Minister Mark Carney was stayed by the Crown. During the hearing, Crown attorney Vanessa Gama read portions of an agreed statement of facts that included Rindall’s calls for the killing of Muslims, the burning of mosques, and praise of Nazi ideology, as well as anti-government and white-supremacist rhetoric.

Police had monitored the anonymous account since April 2025, linked it to Rindall in early 2025, and executed a search warrant on his residence in March, finding no weapons. Rindall told investigators he believed his speech was protected and would continue even if silenced. He accepted the statement of facts, and Judge Jay Funke accepted his pleas; sentencing will be set at a future hearing.