A London, Ont., man convicted in the June 6, 2021 killing of a Muslim family in a hate-motivated attack is appealing his conviction on three grounds, including that the judge should not have allowed the jury to consider his white nationalist manifesto.

A Windsor, Ont., jury found Nathaniel Veltman guilty in November 2023 of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Three months later, then-Superior Court Justice Renee Pomerance ruled that his actions amounted to a "textbook case" of terrorism as defined under Canadian law.

Today is the fourth anniversary of the killing of Yumnah Afzaal, 15, her parents — Madiha Salman, 44, an engineer, and Salman Afzaal, 46, a physiotherapist — and family matriarch Talat Afzaal, 74, a teacher and artist. The four were killed

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