Hate crime

Personally, I would hope she'd care if 82% of hate attacks in the city were perpetrated against the 7.5% of us who are the Irish population in this city.

But as Rosie Dimanno points out in the Toronto Star, while hate crimes in Toronto fell by 50% in 2025 compared to the year before, according to police statistics, anti-Jewish occurrences accounted for 82% of incidents motivated by religion despite Jews comprising a mere 3% of the city's population.

27 times repre- representation in the city.

Does Olivia Chow care? Despite some lip service to the idea that antisemitism is unacceptable, it's difficult to say that she does.

I really truly believe that if 82% of the hate-motivated attacks in Toronto were against any other minority demographic in this city, Olivia Chow would care, and doesn't appear to now, and so would you.

But 50% of people in polling will apparently vote for Olivia Chow.

If you're one of those people, are, are the Jews expendable? Is, is, is that the idea? You just really don't care? What if 82% of crimes of the nature we're talking about, hate crimes, were perpetrated against gay people in the city of Toronto? Would this city be boiling with commentary and people bringing solutions and, uh, just r- rending of garments and pulling of hair? I think so.

I think it would apply to anywhere else.

So between 2019 and 2023, hate crimes in Canada actually doubled.

Which is just a massive jump.

Right.

It perfectly explains why 75 percent of black respondents feel their community is treated unfairly in Canada.

The microaggressions, they basically lay the groundwork for physical danger.

Which brings us back to that massive spike in hate crimes reported by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

Statistics Canada breaks that down to a 90 percent increase in hate crimes against South Asian people and 150 percent increase against Muslim people just between 2020 and 2023.

Those numbers are just huge.

Robinson entered a plea of not guilty during the court proceedings.

Next top headline: Police treat fatal shooting outside Tucson gay bar as hate crime.

Tucson Police are investigating a deadly shooting that took place outside a gay bar, classifying the incident as a potential hate crime.

The attack resulted in the deaths of multiple victims.

Authorities have not announced any arrests in the case.

If

we look at the data here, religious hate crime increased by 3% to reach a record annual high.

A large portion of the surge is driven by a 19% spike in offences specifically targeting Muslims.

Do you think that's happened because of a lack of responsibility from politicians, from media figures, from things like this that Freddie's referencing? So the question

How dare you help these young people avoid the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

Federal Hate Crimes Law, Art, by you saying you don't think this had anything to do with race, Brother Elmore and Coach Tracy.

You are helping these white folks avoid federal hate crimes charges.

And let me tell you why this is important, Art.

Let me tell you why this is important.

Under the federal hate crimes law, Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, signed by Barack Obama 2009.

Under the federal Hate Crimes Act, Art, you can go to jail for life.

You can go to jail for life under the federal hate crimes law.

that type of story.

Hate crimes is on the rise.

I experienced hate

crime when I was in college, you know, but we don't have to talk about it.

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A Bronx man accused of attacking people during a Shabbat service at a Midtown synagogue is now facing federal hate crime charges.

Prosecutors say Larry Montez began shouting during services at Central Synagogue last Friday, knocked over two ceremonial candlesticks and punched a woman when security tried to remove him.

He also allegedly attacked that security guard as he was putting him in handcuffs.

Montez has already pleaded not guilty to state hate crime charges.

He's now charged federally with two hate crime counts and one count of damaging religious property resulting in bodily injury.

He's being held on Rikers Island and is due back in court tomorrow.

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