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Resources
On this page, you will find a number of resources to increase your awareness about hate and identity-based harm, data to help you understand trends and prevalence of hate incidents in the local context, shareable campaign materials to help spread the word, a list of supports for people experiencing hate and other useful resources.
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Hate-motivated crimes and incidents - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Study on Hate Crime Response Highlights Need for Action and Resources - Canada.ca
What You Need to Know About Hate Crime - Waterloo Regional Police
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Glossary of IDEA terms – A reference tool for inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility terminology by the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI)
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The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia – For a more inclusive Canada - Canada.ca
The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia: Chapter 6 – Strategies for Combatting Islamophobia
The Guide to Allyship – hand-out from the Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LP
Anti-Racist Books to Read and Reread Now–Penguin Random House
From observation to action- Standing up against injustice – StopTolerhating
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Data - 2023 Police Reported Hate-Motivated Crime Infographic
Stats on the prevalence of hate: local context – Statistics Canada. (2024). Police reported hate crime in Canada
Waterloo Regional Police Service. (2025). Police reported hate-motivated crime [Infographic].
Coalition of Muslim Women. (2022). Snapshot of hate in Waterloo region: 1st annual report.
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Welcome to Break the Behaviour | Break the Behaviour – In 2017, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants launched a campaign titled, “Break the Behaviour,” to help advance a racism-free Ontario, in collaboration with the Canadian Arab Institute, the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the National Council of Canadian MuslimsFootnote187. Watch the videos here
Commemorations and campaigns — Combatting Islamophobia - Canada.ca – Together for Canada 2025 - Through powerful stories of resilience, success, and belonging from Canadian Muslims, the campaign also encourages allyship in the face of rising Islamophobia.
For a better together campaign - Unity - Canada.ca. The Unity campaign sets out to create a more inclusive future for everyone, including Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and other sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQI+) people.
Ignorance, inaction, and silence are forms of hate | StopTolerhating - Stop Tolerhating is a movement to reject hate in London focused on enhancing awareness, providing education and supporting equity-denied communities.
HeartBeatsHate | Stand Up. Speak Out. Push Back – In a world where you can be anything, be KIND. And then, BE KINDER. A grassroots movement, we exist to stand up, speak out and push back against hatred and bullying - at home, on the playground, at sporting events and at work. We’re here to remind others they always have a choice - and that choice is kindness. Our goal is to build a better, brighter, kinder future for all. And we’re doing it with one simple message: love. Because love is greater than hate. And only HeartBeatsHate.
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What I See: Anti-Asian Racism From The Eyes Of A Child: Leung, Christine T: 9781737356110: Amazon.com: Books
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Bill C-9: An Act to amend the Criminal Code – hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places
Stats on the prevalence of hate: local context
Source: Statistics Canada. (2024). Police reported hate crime in Canada.
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2023
Waterloo region had the highest rate of police-reported hate crimes in the country in 2023.
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34/100,000
Waterloo region reported 34 hate crimes per 100,000 people last year.
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17%
Seventeen per cent of police-reported hate motivated crimes are against members of the South Asian community, while 16 per cent are against Arabic individuals.
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18%/87%
About 18 per cent of the total hate crimes are targeting religion, but about 87 per cent of those target the Jewish community — this is called anti-semitism.
About 13 per cent of total hate crimes are toward the Muslim religion – this is called Islamophobia.
How does the criminal code classify hate crimes?
In Canada, knowing how to classify hate and crime can be confusing. When hate is reported to Waterloo Regional Police Services, there are three ways to classify the behaviour: hate crime, hate-motivated crime, and hate-motivated incident.
To learn more, visit: What You Need to Know About Hate Crime | Waterloo Regional Police
Addressing gaps in data
In 2021, the Coalition of Muslim Women launched a hate and discrimination reporting system to begin addressing gaps in data, as not all incidents of hate and discrimination are reported to police.
According to the Coalition of Muslim Women (2022), half of all cases of reported hate involved a component of Islamophobia.
