Brantford mayoral candidate appealing conviction for advocating genocide

Frequent political candidate Leslie Bory has thrown his hat in the ring for the upcoming mayoral election despite the fact Ontario’s Court of Appeal is reviewing his 2025 sentence for hate crimes.Bory, 56, who has run federally and provincially at least 10 times in Brant, Brantford and Haldimand-Norfolk, was convicted in January 2025 of advocating genocide, willful promotion of hatred and two counts of uttering threats.Bory spent two years in jail awaiting trial and was given the usual on