The bomb squad shows up in Forest Hill and finds Byron Sonne’s buried treasure

The former Forest Hill home of alleged G20 plotter Byron Sonne looked like the scene of a cop show yesterday as Toronto’s bomb squad combed his backyard for buried explosives. A few days ago, Sonne’s trial was winding down, but Crown prosecutor Elizabeth Nadeau’s closing arguments renewed police suspicions that Sonne had more explosives squirreled away. (Nadeau referenced a May 2010 Internet chat in which Sonne talked about a “storage magazine” of potassium chlorate.) Sure enough, officers wearing badass Kevlar bomb suits used a robotic device to dig up a suspicious buried container, then sped across the city (in rush hour no less) to dump it in the Leslie Street spit. Thanks to that package, Sonne will likely be back in court soon—police won’t say yet whether the container contained potassium chlorate, but it’s probably safe to assume it wasn’t almond flour. Read the entire story »