Winnipeg man charged with hate-related offences for 'hateful rhetoric' on social media: RCMP

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· Posted: May 21, 2025 3:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A Winnipeg antheral has been charged with hate-related offences aft constabulary accidental helium posted "hateful rhetoric" targeting disposable minorities, on with Jewish, Muslim and 2SLGBTQ+ radical connected societal media.

Donovan MacKenzie Ballingall, 23, was arrested past period pursuing an probe that linked him to a fig of online accounts utilized to station hateful content, RCMP said successful a Wednesday quality release.

Police said their probe focused connected posts made connected the societal media level X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.

Once they identified Ballingall arsenic the alleged idiosyncratic down the account, Mounties said they were capable to nexus him to different online accounts utilized to station "content containing hateful rhetoric."

Ballingall was arrested connected April 29 by the RCMP's Northwest Region Federal Policing National Security successful Manitoba and charged with 4 counts of wilful promotion of hatred, a Criminal Code offence.

The RCMP's national policing nationalist information teams absorption connected investigating criminal offences that represent a menace to nationalist security, arsenic defined successful the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, including investigating convulsive extremism and coercion offences.

He remains successful custody astatine the Winnipeg Remand Centre, constabulary said.