If you are in immediate danger or a crime is in progress, call 911.
If there is no immediate safety risk, contact your local police non-emergency line (see below).
File an incident report with CIJA.
Report to the Provincial Racist Incident Helpline at 1 833 457 5463 (1-833-HLP-LINE).
Seek legal advice and resources through the Antisemitism Legal Helpline at 778-800-8917 or by email.
If you experience hate, prejudice or bias:
If you experience hate, prejudice or bias:
If you experience hate, prejudice or bias:
If you experience hate, prejudice or bias:
If you experience hate, prejudice or bias:
Every municipality in Greater Vancouver has its own bylaws and approach to dealing with graffiti – on public property and on private property. If you see graffiti that needs to be removed, the following links offer the process you need to follow to report it.
Phone 3-1-1, use the VanConnect phone app, or visit www.vancouver.ca/graffiti
City of North Vancouver: https://www.cnv.org/City-Hall/bylaws/Bylaw-Enforcement/graffiti.
District of North Vancouver: https://www.dnv.org/government-administration/report-problem.
If you see antisemitic graffiti on BC Hydro equipment like poles or transformer boxes, report it here.
https://www.bchydro.com/community/in_your_region/report-graffiti.html
The Criminal Code of Canada includes sections that address hate propaganda.
Genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any identifiable group by killing members or deliberately “inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.”
Groups can be identified by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or mental or physical disability.
Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace.
Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group.
Definition of mischief to religious property
Everyone who commits mischief in relation to property that is a building, structure or part thereof that is primarily used for religious worship, including a church, mosque, synagogue or temple, or an object associated with religious worship located in or on the grounds of such a building or structure, or a cemetery, if the commission of the mischief is motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on religion, race, colour or national or ethnic origin.