Canada must recognize anti-homeless attacks as hate crimes

By 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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