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A timeline of racism and hate in Canada

“Canada isn’t immune to racist violence & hate,” Trudeau said on the weekend. We provide a snapshot.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted condemnation of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the hands of white supremacists and neo-Nazis that left three dead and dozens injured. And he acknowledged that those sentiments are just as entrenched north of the border.

“Canada isn’t immune to racist violence & hate,” said Trudeau’s tweet, which has garnered more than 112,000 likes.

Indeed, there are thousands of examples of hateful acts every year. Human rights group B’nai Brith tracked 1,728 anti-Semitic incidents in 2016 — a sharp increase from 2015 and the highest number of incidents it has ever recorded. Police-reported hate crimes against Muslims jumped by 60 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to Statistics Canada. Community leaders have also said a significant number of hate crimes often go unreported due to fear and the notion that police won’t act.

VICE News has put together a snapshot of some of the most recent hateful and racist incidents across Canada. It is by no means exhaustive, but it illustrates the breadth of what people endure on any given day in this country.