In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, police reported 2,669 hate crimes in Canada, up 37% from 2019. This marks the largest number of police-reported hate crimes since comparable data became available in 2009. In 2020, police-reported hate crimes targeting race or ethnicity almost doubled (+80%) compared with a year earlier, accounting for the vast majority of the national increase in hate crimes.
Today, Statistics Canada released a detailed analysis in the Juristat article "Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2020" and the accompanying infographic "Infographic: Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2020."
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