By Patrick Burles - @PatrickBurles on Twitter

Woman accused of threatening PM’s wife given peace bond

Jun 27, 2017 | 5:16 PM

LETHBRIDGE – A charge of uttering threats has been withdrawn against a 49-year old Lethbridge woman, who was accused of making threatening comments against the Canadian government, including the Prime Minister’s wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

The charge was withdrawn on Monday (June 26), after Lisa Peters-Seymour agreed to a one-year peace bond. It includes $1,000 no-cash, meaning she won’t have to pay as long as she doesn’t violate any of the terms of the peace bond for the next year.

Those terms are that she have no contact with the prime minister or his wife, and that she not post anything online regarding the Trudeau family.

Steven Johnston, a Crown attorney with Specialized Prosecutions in Calgary, spoke with Lethbridge News Now, explaining that the case centred around May 9, 2017, and 23 comments Peters-Seymour posted on Twitter.

He then provided a few examples of comments made, which were read out in court:

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“With a bullet to the temple” – response to a news article about the Alberta labour minister.

“One bullet” – an article about Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

“Canadians lose everything, wake the f*** up Canada. Kill every last one of them. Take back our country” – Johnston said the comment was about bureaucrats in general.

In a media release from the RCMP, they stated that information was received by their “K” Division Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (K-INSET) in Calgary on May 11, 2017.

Investigators report that they identified the social media account where the messages originated, and took the account holder into custody without incident on May 12.