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Hate crimes numbers stayed steady in 2024 after years of increases: StatCan

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 30 Mar, 2026 09:59 AM

Statistics Canada says the number of police-reported hate crimes stayed steady in 2024, after sharp increases in prior years.

StatCan says there were 4,882 hate crimes in Canada in 2024, a one per cent increase over the previous year.

That followed a 34 per cent rise between 2022 and 2023 and after the number of police-reported hate crimes more than doubled since 2018.

StatCan reports an eight per cent increase in incidents targeting race or ethnicity in 2024, and a 26 per cent drop in the number of cases targeting sexual orientation.

The number of police-reported hate crimes targeting religion stayed relatively stable, following a 154 per cent increase between 2020 and 2023.

The Liberal government has introduced a new hates crimes bill that would create new Criminal Code offences and define "hatred" in criminal law for the first time.

Picture Courtesy: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

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