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After Trump’s Victory, Racist Acts Have Also Cropped Up in Canada

It’s ugly out there

As president-elect Donald Trump makes his way to power, acts of racism and xenophobia that have dominated headlines across the U.S. have made their way into Canada.

An Ottawa rabbi woke up Tuesday morning to a swastika and an anti-semitic slur spray-painted in red on her front door. That same day, the Toronto police force announced it was investigating posters plastered around the city's east end calling on white people to join the "alt-right" movement— which holds Trump as its "god-emperor" — to take on things like "multiculturalism" and "political correctness."

Several more incidents have been documented this week, including a man hurling racist insults on a Toronto streetcar who also reportedly shouted "Go Trump."

"This is what has been unleashed by the American president-elect and those that support him," Anna Maranta, the Ottawa rabbi, wrote in a Facebook post.

But experts say it's too soon to tell just how connected the vitriol is to Trump's victory, and that the incidents are more likely the inevitable outcome of long-held views by many Canadians, who may now feel encouraged by the successful campaign rhetoric.

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