Montreal police have seen a sudden spike in hate-related incidents in the two days since Sunday's shooting in Quebec City, the city's police chief, Philippe Pichet, said Tuesday. "Since Sunday, we've had 14 calls related to hate speech," Pichet said. He commended citizens for coming forward and alerting authorities to hateful comments on social media or elsewhere. Montreal police set up a special unit in May 2016 to monitor and target hate speech and other hateful incidents based on race, religion, sexual orientation or other cultural differences. Since the police launched a special unit to monitor hate crimes and hate incidents on the island of Montreal last May, he said, there were a total of 55 such incidents reported.

Source: CBC News January 31, 2017 20:26 UTC