Overview

• Superior Court Justice Robert Smith issued the sentence after an April conviction for participating in terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity, and inciting hate against Jews.
• Prosecutors said Patrick Gordon MacDonald, known online as “Dark Foreigner,” helped craft recruitment videos and imagery for the listed terror group Atomwaffen Division.
• The Crown sought 14 years while the defence proposed roughly six to eight with credit for time served, and the judge settled on 10 years.
• Investigators linked him to the 2018–2019 materials through seized multimedia equipment along with his telephone and banking records.
• MacDonald apologized in court, while B’nai Brith Canada welcomed the decision as a deterrent to would‑be extremists.