B’nai Brith reported 319 cases of vandalism, including 25 incidents targeting synagogues, two desecrations of Jewish graves, and 12 against people’s homes; 13 physical assaults, including one against Jewish students on their way home from school and one against a Jewish couple; and 84 cases of threats.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations - Canada (CAIR-CAN), which is now known as the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), reported one physical assault involving a woman’s headscarf being pulled off; three incidents of damage to property, two of which involved attempted arson against Islamic centres; one case of graffiti on an Islamic centre; and one case of threats of arson against a Mosque.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that Canada introduce in its legislation a specific offence criminalizing racist violence, which would be in addition to its general aggravating circumstances provision.
The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Observatory reported two cases of graffiti on a mosque and one case of threats to blow up a mosque.
ODIHR observes that Canada has not reported information on prosecuted hate crime cases to ODIHR.
Official figures record 704 crimes based on bias against race/colour and ethnicity and 13 crimes based on bias against language.
Official figures record 242 anti-Semitic crimes.
Official figures record 45 crimes based on bias against Muslims.
Official figures record 132 crimes based on bias against religion. These include 37 anti-Catholic crimes and 95 crimes based on an unspecified anti-religion bias motivation.
Official figures record 185 anti-LGB crimes and zero crimes based on bias against transgender people.
Official figures record eight crimes based on bias against disabilities and ten crimes based on bias against gender.
Official figures record 75 hate crimes based on "other" bias motivations, including 47 crimes based on "other similar factors" such as political affiliation, and 28 crimes based on "other" unspecified bias motivations.
Links
[1] https://hatecrime.osce.org/node/96/csv
[2] https://hatecrime.osce.org/ngo/b%E2%80%99nai-brith
[3] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/anti-semitism
[4] https://hatecrime.osce.org/ngo/cair-canada
[5] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-muslims
[6] https://hatecrime.osce.org/igo/united-nations-cerd-committee
[7] https://hatecrime.osce.org/igo/organization-islamic-cooperation-oic
[8] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/racism-and-xenophobia
[9] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-christians-and-members-other-religions
[10] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-other-groups-sexual-orientation-or-gender-identity
[11] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-other-groups-%E2%80%93-people-disabilities