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Analysis of the Ontario College of Teachers’ decision revoking Fernanda Caranfa’s licence for hate speech, and its wider implications for schools.

This legal update examines the Montreal assault case and a Victoria hate incitement charge, highlighting key issues in Canada’s response to antisemitic crime.

In this in-depth legal analysis, ALCCA Chair Mark Sandler joins Senior Criminal Counsel Rochelle Direnfeld and veteran criminal lawyer Cynthia Fromstein to examine the sentencing decision in R. v. Akbari. The authors explain why, in their view, the sentence imposed failed to adequately address the need for general deterrence and denunciation.

Iain Aspenlieder has pleaded guilty to vandalizing the National Holocaust Monument. As his defence prepares to frame the act as morally driven, we must confront the reality: targeting Jewish symbols in protest fuels antisemitism and endangers Canadian Jews. This cannot be normalized.

A significant week for hate crimes response in Canada: Ottawa sees criminal harassment charges in a Holocaust monument desecration case; Oshawa police investigate a possible hate-motivated swarming attack; and B.C. expands its RCMP-led hate crimes unit with new funding. ALCCA breaks down the legal developments and their broader implications.

This week’s legal update covers a major hate speech conviction in Toronto, Holocaust denial charges in North Bay, and an arrest following the desecration of the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa.

This week’s roundup includes a disturbing case out of Halifax, where a 16-year-old is facing 33 charges—including hate promotion and weapons offences—following an alleged threat to a local high school.

Two Ontario court rulings this week revealed striking contrasts in how antisemitic conduct is addressed in the justice system.