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Canada must recognize anti-homeless attacks as hate crimes

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par Katharina Maier, Associate professor, Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
Carolyn Greene, Associate Professor, Criminology, Athabasca University
Justin Tetrault, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Alberta
Marta-Marika Urbanik, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta

Hate crime is a growing concern in Canada. These are crimes motivated by animosity, bias or hate toward some aspect of a victim’s identity.

Canada, and several other countries, have reported recent increases in hate-motivated violence against unhoused people. However, in Canada, people experiencing homelessness are not considered a protected…

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