Hate crime charge hangs over Ottawa Centre candidate

Twenty-five names and you’re in. Oh, and you can’t work for the government.
Aside from that, there’s not much stopping anyone from running for a seat of Queen’s Park, even if you’ve been convicted of sexual assault, been stripped of your medical licence and have an upcoming trial for hate crimes.
All those apply to James Sears, candidate in Ottawa Centre who bills himself as “Canada’s biggest troll.”
Sears, 54, is editor of the Toronto newsletter Y