Is the 'Trump effect' causing a spike in hate crimes in Canada?

[left-of-center2012]

Three incidents in three cities in just one week

In Ottawa, a teenage boy, police confirmed Saturday, was arrested after a spate of racist graffiti targeting religious communities.
In Toronto last Monday night, a man was caught on camera hurling racist insults and threatening another man on a streetcar full of commuters.

In Hamilton, a black woman shared on Facebook her story about an incident in the checkout line at Hamilton store Sunday Nov. 13 where she said a white man who looked about 65 to 70 years-old "turned around to face me while pointing at the front page of a newspaper (which has Trump's face filling the entire page), and said, (as he continued pointing at the paper and holding my gaze) 'I'm glad he got in. I hope he cleans up the whole of North America.'"

Ryan Scrivens, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University:
Right-wing extremism is not just law enforcement concern. It's a community concern. It's a societal concern. If law enforcement can work closely with community activists, those involved in anti-extremist movements, educators — they can all work together on different pieces of the puzzle to paint a more clear picture of what's really going on with the far right.

Read more at:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/is-the-trump-effect-causing-a-spike-in-hate-crimes-in-canada-1.3860087

[get the red out]

1. The US is the bad neighbor

That won't take care of their trash.

[applegrove]

2. Misogynists in Alberta are attacking female politicians. One quit a leadership race

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and joined another party it was so bad. Trump is embolding racists and bigots everywhere and Trump needs to admit what he has done instead of pretending he doesn't know.