Unprovoked assault in downtown Calgary being investigated as possible hate crime

Charges have been laid for an unprovoked assault in downtown Calgary on New Year's Day, which police say is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Police were called to a bus stop on Fifth Avenue near Second Street S.W. just after 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 after a man who was waiting there was assaulted by another man in an unprovoked attack. A Calgary Transit bus driver saw the assault and called 911 before offering first aid to the victim. The victim, a man in his 40s, was taken to hospital in