Hate crime reports in Canada surged during COVID-19 pandemic: StatCan
The first year of the pandemic saw the highest number of police-reported hate crimes since Statistics Canada began tracking data in 2009.StatCan researchers said the pandemic continued to impact Canadians in the second year, but perhaps in a different way, as restrictions began to lift across the country.In a concerning trend, the rate of sexual assault hit its peak since 1996, with 34,242 incidents reported in 2021.
“Pandemic-related lockdown conditions, particularly in the first year of the pandemic, could have exacerbated the underreporting of sexual assaults,” StatCan said.For the third successive year, the national homicide rate increased, with 788 cases reported.Ontario and British Columbia saw higher numbers of homicides, but there were fewer incidents in Alberta and Nova Scotia, where a mass shooting killed 22 people in 2020.
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