RCMP officers have arrested two people and charged one with three terrorism offences in a first-of-its-kind case.
The Mounties charged Patrick Gordon Macdonald, a 26-year-old Ottawa man, with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity and commission of an offence for terrorist group (wilful promotion of hatred).
The RCMP said in a news release that the arrests of Macdonald and a second individual came about in response to information it received about the activities of the far-right Atomwaffen Division, a group Canada has listed as a terrorist entity.
“This case is the first in Canada in which an individual advocating a violent far-right
