Police say a man used a sharp object to engrave 'hateful graffiti' on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa.

Kelowna-Mission candidate Amanda Poon said several of her signs were recently defaced while others were completely destroyed.

On Tuesday night a facility was 'swarmed and vandalized' by commercial fishermen, said Chief Michael Sack of the Sipeknet'katik First Nation.

On Sunday, Kingston police received a 911 call from a witness who says they saw a woman who damaged about a dozen vehicles with a hatchet.

Police said the incident occurred around 7:40 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Holy Rosary Parish Church, located in the area of Spadina Road and St. Clair Avenue. 

While graffiti isn't an entirely new problem for conservation officers to deal with, at least three separate incidents of tagging were enough to prompt Alberta Parks to take to Twitter to remind visitors of the penalty they can face if they are caught defacing a mountain or park infrastructure. 

Vulgar graffiti has twice been found on St. John Paul II Elementary School in Lindsay.

OPP say equipment at King Edward Park in Brighton was damaged on Sept. 22.

Viola Desmond was a Nova Scotia civil rights pioneer and businesswoman. A cemetery sign directing visitors to her headstone was tagged with racial slurs.

“This is going to be one thing that’s going to be hard to forgive and forget anytime soon."