Police reported 169 hate crimes in Montreal in 2015: StatsCan

Montreal had the 11th highest rate of hate crimes in Canada in 2015 and experienced the second-highest year-over-year increase in hate crimes of any major Canadian city, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.
“The number of hate crimes in Montreal was attributable to 33 more reported incidents targeting a religion,” said StatsCan in the report released Tuesday.
Police reported 169 hate crimes in Montreal in 2015, up from 130 in 2014. Edmonton saw the high