Durham Region, outside Toronto, is the latest Ontario municipality to create a program for recording “non-criminal hate incidents” (NCHIs) such as (to quote the website) telling offensive jokes, destroying religious texts or sending discriminatory text messages.
The new Community-Based Hate Reporting program includes a form where people are encouraged to report such “hateful” incidents — anonymously if they wish — so that they can be connected with taxpayer-funded security or counselling, so that the region can better track hate incidents, and so that police can be informed. Waterloo Region, Ottawa, Chatham-Kent, Hamilton and Muskoka already have similar reporting tools.
