West Asians: Cent and Incidents

west asians: Canada rose by five per cent as a whole in 2015, with the rise largely due to an increase in incidents targeting the Muslim population and Arabs or West Asians, according to CTV. In 2015, police reported 1,362 criminal incidents motivated by hate, 67 more than the previous year, according to the data published Tuesday. In the report issued Tuesday, the federal agency says Barrie and Guelph were the only locations where hate crimes weren't reported in 2015. reported 51 incidents, while Toronto had 295. Of them, 48 per cent were motivated by hatred of a race or ethnicity, 35 per cent were motivated by hatred of a religion, and 11 per cent were hate crimes targeting sexual orientation. The agency did note, however, that in 2015, police services increased outreach to ethnic groups and, in addition, the National Council of Canadian Muslims made efforts to encourage reporting of hate crimes to police. The number of hate crimes presented in this release likely undercounts the true extent of hate crime in Canada, as not all crimes are reported to police, Statistics Canada said in a note accompanying Tuesday's data release. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.