Mark Sangster, vice-president of Waterloo-based cybersecurity firm eSentire, said about the rising online hate crimes: “”I think that’s the problem is a lot of people are suffering in silence here and we’re never really going to know the full extent of it…..”
In Ottawa, The number of hate/bias-motivated crimes increased by 155% from 2015 to 2020. In total, the community reported 655 incidents in Ottawa in five years. According to Stats Canada 2019 report, Ottawa has the 2nd highest police-reported hate crimes in Canada. #UnitedWayEastOntario, the #CityofOttawa and #SocialPlanningCouncilofOttawa worked together to create the Neighbourhood Equity Index (NEI). Now we have added hate crime stats to the NEI portal to see the geography of hate in Ottawa. You can view the portal here: https://lnkd.in/eVBFrEgA
