'Nearly 50 per cent of visible minorities say that they’ve experienced hate and we also found visible minorities are the most likely to experience violent incidents of hate.'
The number of hate crimes in Alberta is on the rise, according to a new study.
The Organization for the Prevention of Violence performed a government-funded study that found more than one third of Albertans reported experiencing a hate crime in the past three years. Visible minorities, however, are far more likely to be subjected to hate, the study found. The survey used a broader definition of hate compared to the criminal code. The study looked at experiences that didn’t need to have been escalated to police or pursued criminally as a hate crime.This allowed OPV to collect a much more holistic representation of hate in the province, since things like racial slurs often aren’t dealt with on a criminal level, said Michele St. Amant with OPV.
Stats Canada data shows Alberta ranks fourth in the highest number of increases in hate crimes from the previous year.
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