The RCMP said it was the first time the advocating genocide law had been used in the province.

There were 2,041 incidents of hate crimes against Jewish Canadians in 2018, according to B’nai Brith Canada.

Noticing a rise in Islamophobic attacks and related incidents, some Muslim women are turning to self-defence classes.

The Vancouver-based Morgane Oger Foundation has issued a call for volunteers to help build the Canadian Atlas of Populist Extremism, to be known as CAPE.

Police-reported hate crimes targeting Muslims grew by over 150 per cent. For Jews, they grew by over 60 per cent.

The attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue occurred at a time of rising antisemitism in both the United States and Canada.

The incident, at a fundraising dinner for a Vision TV program, came two weeks after police said they were investigating three similar occurrences in Mississauga.

The number of police-reported hate crimes specifically targeting Muslims went down last year after spiking by over 250 per cent in the four years prior.

The number of police-reported hate crimes targeting Muslims more than tripled between 2012 and 2015, despite the overall number of such crimes decreasing over the same period, according to Statistics Canada.