A man with ties to al-Qaeda who allegedly threatened to bomb public transit has waived his right to a bail hearing.

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, appeared in court by video conference from the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre in Montreal.

Warsame has been charged with uttering threats after allegedly telling an employee at a Montreal homeless shelter he wanted to build bombs and detonate them on public transit.

Last week a federal prosecutor invoked a little-used provision on terrorism in the…