What 8 Toronto hate crime arrests say about policing in Canada
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What 8 Toronto hate crime arrests say about policing in Canada
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17 AUGUST 2026
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Between 2010 and 2023, Toronto police laid a grand total of four willful promotion of hatred charges. Since October 7, weekly demonstrations have pushed into Jewish neighbourhoods. Signs and chants that community leaders called open incitement have largely been allowed to continue without perpetrators facing repercussions, and the repeated response from authorities has been that investigations were ongoing.
Finally, in June, five individuals were arrested in connection to a protest…
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