Bias-motivated incidents in Canada

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43 incidents, newest first.

October 2026

• Neo-Nazi group targets Hamilton council candidate with racist threat

  A Hamilton-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist group posted a derogatory social-media comment threatening to deport and bar city council candidate Kojo Damptey from office.

  Oct 14 · HamiltonRacism2 sources

• Racist sign targeting people of colour hung from Steinbach overpass

  A sign created by a white supremacist group with disparaging comments directed at people of colour was hung from an overpass at Highway 12 and the Trans-Canada Highway in Steinbach.

  Oct 13 · SteinbachRacism2 sources

• Misogynistic homecoming sign hung at St. Francis Xavier University

  A sign reading 'Drop-off zone: Acadia girlfriends' was painted on a sheet and hung on an off-campus house during homecoming at St. Francis Xavier University.

  Oct 3 · AntigonishSexism / Gender-Based Violence1 source

September 2026

• Masked group hangs mocking banner over Kamloops overpass

  A group of masked individuals displayed a banner reading 'Got bones?' from an overpass in Kamloops, British Columbia, appearing to deny reports of human burials at former residential school sites.

  Sep 27 · KamloopsRacism5 sources

• Emailed threat to kill or deport Muslims sent to Islamic schools in Ontario

  An email using dehumanizing language threatened that Muslims would be 'deported or slaughtered' and was sent to eight Islamic schools run by the Muslim Association of Canada in Ontario.

  Sep 20 · VancouverReligious Discrimination2 sources

• Shooting outside Belleville synagogue on Yom Kippur wounds police officer

  A shooting occurred outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, on the evening of Yom Kippur while members of the Jewish community were gathered for religious services.

  Sep 20 · BellevilleReligious Discrimination15 sources

• Man charged with racist threats, harassment of a youth in Middle Sackville

  A 21-year-old man approached a parked car in Middle Sackville, tried to pull a youth from the vehicle, then followed the car while driving dangerously and continued threatening the youth by phone.

  Sep 16 · Middle SackvilleRacism1 source

• Death threats, swastika spray-painted on signs along Sikh procession route

  Several transit signs along the route of a Sikh Nagar Kirtan procession in downtown Winnipeg were spray-painted with death threats against Indians and a swastika.

  Sep 6 · WinnipegRacismReligious Discrimination1 source

August 2026

• Canadian outlet sells orange shirts denying residential-schools truth

  A Canadian media outlet announced the sale of orange shirts bearing slogans denying the history of Indigenous residential schools, including 'Evidence still doesn't exist' and 'Canada was built, not stolen'.

  Aug 31Racism1 source

• Car of Muslim MP set on fire outside her Scarborough home

  Unknown perpetrators attacked and set fire to a car parked outside the home of a Pakistani-origin Muslim Member of Parliament in Scarborough, Canada.

  Aug 27 · ScarboroughReligious Discrimination1 source

• Woman killed in Montreal's Saint-Michel neighbourhood; spouse suspected

  A 44-year-old woman was killed in the Saint-Michel neighbourhood of Montreal, described as the 12th femicide of the year in Quebec.

  Aug 15 · MontrealSexism / Gender-Based Violence2 sources

• Suspected arson destroys kosher restaurant in Montreal

  A fire broke out before dawn at Nöam Restaurant, a kosher eatery in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, causing extensive damage to the two-storey building.

  Aug 1 · MontrealReligious Discrimination1 source

July 2026

• Fire ravages part of Baitul Mukarram mosque in Montreal

  A fire broke out at the Baitul Mukarram mosque in Montreal in the early hours of the morning, causing extensive material damage.

  Jul 31 · MontrealReligious Discrimination1 source

• Windows shattered by gunfire at Winnipeg Islamic centre

  Several windows at the Rahma Islamic Centre on Watt Street in Winnipeg were shattered by gunfire late at night, an attack police are investigating as a potential hate-motivated crime.

  Jul 29 · WinnipegRacismReligious Discrimination4 sources

• Jewish-owned Toronto bakery shot at in antisemitic attack

  The front glass of Kiva's Bagel Bakery on Steeles Avenue West in North York was shattered by gunfire, and about an hour later a second location of the Jewish-owned bakery was shot at.

  Jul 25 · TorontoReligious Discrimination1 source

• Muslim woman assaulted in front of her child in Moncton parking lot

  A Muslim woman was harassed with racist insults and then physically assaulted in a parking lot on Mountain Street in Moncton, New Brunswick, while her seven-year-old child tried to defend her.

  Jul 18 · MonctonRacismReligious Discrimination1 source

• Jewish residents assaulted, robbed walking home from Shabbat in Montreal

  A group of assailants confronted multiple Jewish residents walking home from Friday-night Shabbat services in Montreal's Outremont neighborhood, striking and robbing them, hurling antisemitic slurs, and snatching the fur hats worn by several Hasidic men.

  Jul 3 · MontrealReligious Discrimination4 sources

• Muslim farmer in Bowmanville targeted by online halal slaughterhouse campaign

  An online campaign falsely accused a Muslim farmer in Bowmanville, Ontario and other area farmers of operating an illegal halal slaughterhouse, leading to harassment, threats and calls to boycott halal meat.

  Jul 2 · BowmanvilleRacismReligious DiscriminationXenophobia1 source

June 2026

• Gunman kills police officer and Jewish resident near Montreal Chabad House

  A gunman opened fire in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood near a Chabad House and kosher supermarket, killing a police officer and a Jewish civilian resident before being shot dead by police.

  Jun 22 · MontrealReligious DiscriminationSexism / Gender-Based Violence4 sources

• Imam assaulted outside Victoria mosque while attacker shouted slurs

  An imam was sitting in his vehicle after leading prayers at a mosque in Victoria when an individual forced open his car door, assaulted him, and shouted Islamophobic slurs telling him to 'go back to your country.'

  Jun 18 · VictoriaReligious DiscriminationXenophobia4 sources

• Lunenburg taxi owner accosted, subjected to homophobic slurs

  A Lunenburg taxi company owner was accosted by members of the public while working and had homophobic slurs directed at him, after he posted about banning the town's mayor from his service.

  Jun 17 · LunenburgQueer Discrimination1 source

• Islamophobic graffiti scrawled near Muslim daycare in Edmonton

  Islamophobic graffiti was scrawled near a daycare for Muslim children on the north side of Edmonton, prompting condemnation from the mayor and a Muslim advocacy group.

  Jun 15 · EdmontonReligious Discrimination2 sources

• Mayor interrupts nonbinary teen's Pride speech in Cambridge, Ontario

  The mayor of Cambridge, Ontario cut off a 17-year-old nonbinary speaker during a Pride flag-raising event, telling them to remove a part of their speech referencing a councillor's anti-LGBT meme.

  Jun 1 · CambridgeQueer Discrimination1 source

May 2026

• Islamic school bus vandalized with anti-Muslim graffiti in Hamilton

  A school bus owned by the Waterdown Islamic School was broken into, damaged, and tagged with anti-Muslim graffiti while parked in Hamilton.

  May 26 · HamiltonReligious Discrimination1 source

• Posters of missing Jewish girl ripped down in Toronto

  Posters seeking a missing 14-year-old Jewish girl in North York, Toronto, were being physically removed from poles around the city.

  May 15 · TorontoReligious Discrimination1 source

• Pellet gun fired at worshippers outside Toronto synagogue

  A pellet gun was fired at worshippers outside the Chasidei Bobov synagogue in North York, Toronto, an attack described by B'nai Brith Canada as part of a pattern of anti-Jewish violence.

  May 7 · TorontoReligious Discrimination1 source

• Mural of Stó:lō woman defaced with paint and 'MMIP' in Chilliwack

  An unknown vandal splashed buckets of dark paint and wrote the letters 'MMIP' over a downtown Chilliwack mural of Inez Louis, a Stó:lō woman, on Red Dress Day.

  May 5 · ChilliwackRacism1 source

April 2026

• Jewish pedestrians shot with gel-blaster in suspected hate crime in Toronto

  Visibly Jewish pedestrians in North York, Toronto were shot with a gel-blaster replica firearm from a passing vehicle, sustaining minor injuries.

  Apr 30 · TorontoReligious Discrimination3 sources

• Jewish man punched outside Vaughan synagogue in hate crime

  A man tried to force his way into a synagogue, was turned away by security, and then punched a congregant walking with his son to prayer services.

  Apr 25 · VaughanReligious Discrimination5 sources

• Muslim woman verbally accosted and kicked at on Scarborough bus

  A man on a Durham transit bus in Scarborough verbally accosted a Muslim woman wearing a hijab and kicked at her, according to video posted by the National Council of Canadian Muslims.

  Apr 15 · ScarboroughReligious Discrimination1 source

• Man assaulted in suspected homophobic attack in Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village

  Two men yelled homophobic slurs at a victim walking along Church Street in Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village, then assaulted him before fleeing in a dark-coloured sedan.

  Apr 4 · TorontoQueer Discrimination1 source

• Shots fired at Jewish-owned restaurant in North York, Toronto

  A gunman fired multiple shots into a Jewish-owned restaurant in North York, Toronto, damaging the building but causing no injuries.

  Apr 3 · TorontoReligious Discrimination2 sources

March 2026

• Toronto synagogue damaged by gunfire in suspected hate crime

  A synagogue in North York, Toronto was struck by gunfire, damaging the building.

  Mar 7 · TorontoReligious Discrimination13 sources

• Shots fired at Thornhill synagogue in antisemitic attack

  Shots were fired at the front door of the BAYT Synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, in an attack the congregation's rabbi called an act of terror meant to intimidate the Jewish community.

  Mar 6 · ThornhillReligious Discrimination1 source

February 2026

• White supremacist group holds demonstration outside Hamilton city hall

  Members of the white nationalist group Nationalist-13, dressed in black and wearing masks, held a banner with the group's name and performed a Nazi salute outside Hamilton city hall.

  Feb 22 · HamiltonRacismXenophobia1 source

• Woman killed by husband in Brossard home in murder-suicide

  A 54-year-old woman was found dead with stab wounds in her Brossard home alongside her husband, in what police are calling a murder-suicide.

  Feb 2 · BrossardSexism / Gender-Based Violence1 source

January 2026

• International student assaulted near Tuscany Village in Saanich

  An international graduate student at the University of Victoria was attacked near the Tuscany Village shopping complex, suffering facial fractures and other injuries.

  Jan 22 · SaanichXenophobia1 source

• Woman stabbed to death by partner in Rougemont, Quebec

  A 40-year-old mother was stabbed multiple times and killed by her partner in an apartment building in Rougemont, Quebec.

  Jan 18 · RougemontSexism / Gender-Based Violence1 source

• Indigenous man shot and killed by RCMP at Neqotkuk First Nation

  RCMP officers shot and killed Bronson Paul, an Indigenous man, at a residence on Main Street in Neqotkuk First Nation during a domestic dispute call.

  Jan 18 · Neqotkuk First NationRacism2 sources

• Four South Asian immigrant teens injured in racist assault at London park

  Four immigrant youths from the Malayali community were injured, one critically with an eye injury, in a targeted racist assault at Victoria Park in London, Ontario.

  Jan 18 · LondonRacismXenophobia1 source

• Bridge honouring residential school survivors vandalized in Port Alberni

  A bridge in Port Alberni honouring residential school survivors was vandalized with racist and derogatory words.

  Jan 14 · Port AlberniRacism1 source

• Man shoots former partner and her friend in intimate partner violence attack

  An 81-year-old man shot his 80-year-old former partner and her 83-year-old male friend at a home in Cornwall, killing the friend and seriously injuring the woman, before dying by suicide.

  Jan 3 · CornwallSexism / Gender-Based Violence3 sources

• Synagogue in Winnipeg vandalized with antisemitic graffiti

  An unknown individual spray-painted swastikas and the word 'hate' on the doors and marble siding of the Shaarey Zedek synagogue in Winnipeg.

  Jan 2 · WinnipegReligious Discrimination5 sources

Elsewhere in North America

• Cuba 13
• Mexico 31
• United States 332