It’s a cunning move. You have to grant the Trudeau government that much. After years of muddling through consultations and revisions and dogs’ breakfasts, the online harms act was tabled in the House of Commons this week, casting a wide net in an effort to regulate social media platforms, live-streaming services and user-uploaded “adult” content. It also creates a stand-alone hate crimes law, all in one go.
The B.C. Prosecution Service (BCPS) has revised its hate crimes policy to expand the definition of what constitutes hate-motivated offences in the province.
In a media statement released on Feb. 16, the prosecution service said the definition of hate crimes now includes, among other prohibited acts, “hate propaganda offences” such as “advocating or promoting genocide,” “public incitement of hatred,” and “wilful promotion of antisemitism.”
People who live in Canadian cities that have high rates of hate crimes(opens in a new tab) were less likely to report positive physical and mental health compared with those in other parts of the country, according to Statistics Canada.
In a recent study released Thursday, Statistics Canada said it found that fewer Canadians (46 per cent) in these areas that saw more hate crimes reported “excellent or very good mental health” compared with those living in other parts of the country (50 per cent).
It defined a hate crime as “a criminal violation motivated by hate.”
Crappy article that fails to offer stats on the actual number or ethnic/religious background of victims.
Typically the Jewish faith leads the hate crime hit parade by a wide margin. Someone likely figured that fact to be “controversial” and left identifying data out lest they offend their Hamas supporting viewers.
Recall that reporting on the latest available national hate crime stats deliberately avoided mentioning that crimes against Christians soared thanks to the Liberal party unleashing a wave of Fake Grave Hysteria resulting in arsons and vandalism against over a hundred churches.
Just imagine if this wasn’t a church (or even a synagogue). Every single Liberal politician from A to Trudeau would be out clutching their pearls and yammering on about hate and phobia to try to get votes.
But because it’s a church? Absolute crickets from all of them. https://t.co/b8VdSScNXH
— Ari Goldkind (@AriGoldkind) February 12, 2024
Sparking intense criticism from conservatives, the left-leaning majority of the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the extension of the EU crime list to include hate speech and hate crimes, which would allow the European Commission to introduce binding minimum penalties for all member states.
The vote, that took place on Thursday, January 18th, passed with 397 for and 121 against, with only 26 abstentions—the latter mainly coming from a handful of dissident leftists concerned that the law may be used to silence anti-Israel voices. As always, only the two conservative blocs, ECR and ID, voted against it while all leftist parties and the center-right EPP supported the report.
The letter was sent to a family who had moved to west Wales and referred to them as ‘low life’
A hate crime against a family from the Midlands is being investigated by a Welsh police force after a poison pen letter attacking their “hideous, vomit-inducing” Brummie accents was left outside their home.
The vitriolic handwritten note was posted after the family moved 120 miles from the Midlands to a sought-after street in the seaside town of Aberystwyth, west Wales.
So much hate out there. So much hurt out there.
Which are not the same thing. The law can’t prevent anyone from saying hurtful things, words that cut to the bone, and that is how it must be in a democracy that enshrines free speech. But a lot easier said when the invective isn’t aimed at you. When it is targeted, instead, at gays and Muslims and, most commonly over these past many weeks since the massacre raids by Hamas into Israel, at Jews.
One victim suffered minor injuries, police said. In an earlier statement, the National Council of Canadian Muslims provided more details about what happened in the mosque.
The organization reported that the alleged attacker also tried to smash through the windows and kick and strike worshippers. According to the NCCM, the attacker also uttered a number of Islamophobic slurs and threats, including about Muslim terrorists, “how he was there to ‘finish the job’ and how he was Israeli.”
Police identified the suspect as 28-year-old Chandler Marshall of Toronto.
The Department of Justice and FBI pride themselves on being the top federal agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes. Their zeal for tracking down racists and targeting Americans based on fabricated white supremacy allegations apparently stops, however, when it comes to classifying the type of anti-white crimes that occurred at Covenant School earlier this year.
On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man, shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school before local police took her out.
Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) Chair Bernie Farber said it is unequipped to document pro-Hamas sentiments increasing in Canada.
What an ass.
As the war in the Middle East continues, and rallies across Canada attract large crowds, Jewish organizations are reminding communities to stay vigilant.
On Friday, Toronto Police Service charged a young man and two teenage boys in connection with a hate crime investigation at a Jewish high school. Later that day, a rabbi’s home in B.C. was reportedly egged and defaced with a Nazi symbol.
A man has been charged with murder and hate crimes after allegedly stabbing a six-year-old boy to death because he was Muslim.
Joseph Czuba, 71, is accused of killing Wadea Al-Fayoume and seriously wounding his mother in Plainfield, Illinois.
The landlord allegedly targeted the pair, who were his tenants, because of their religion and the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel.
A shooting at a Florida Dollar General store in Northwest Jacksonville which left three black people dead was ‘racially motivated,’ officials say.
The incident, which also saw the white gunman die from a self-inflicted gun wound, on Saturday is being investigated as a hate crime by the FBI and local authorities.
The suspected shooter used an assault rifle covered in Nazi swastikas in the attack, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Travis Ikeguchi, 27, made anti-LGBTQ posts before shooting dead California shop owner Laura Ann Carleton over her Pride flag
Ikeguchi’s GAB – a blogging site often known for its right-wing users – page was filled with references to religion, anti-democracy, anti-police and references to defending himself.
‘America must repent for a lot of things we allow; abortion/baby killing, sexual immortality, pornography, same-sex marriages, LGBTQP/pedophilia, freemasonry, religiosity, politics, wars, colonialism, the federal reserve,’ he wrote in a post.
Stop Stop AAPI Hate
America’s latest era of racial turmoil has been a boon to many organizations. Black Lives Matter is merely the highest-profile group to claim the mantle of authority on racism, while bringing in millions of dollars in contributions. Stop AAPI Hate (AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islander), purporting to be the leading authority on “anti-Asian hate crimes,” has followed BLM’s model, promoting the story that America is racist toward Asians. Its motto reflects that mission: it seeks to “advance equity, justice, and power by dismantling systemic racism.”
The Asian BLM, just more anti-white racism.
The arrest of a 16-year-old autistic girl for a ‘homophobic public-order offence’ raises some troubling questions.
Is it a crime to call a police officer a lesbian? Now there’s a question I never thought I’d have to pose. But following the release of shocking footage, showing a 16-year-old autistic girl being arrested by seven police officers over a ‘homophobic public-order offence’, it’s one that desperately needs to be answered.
