Table 1
Hate crimes reported by police, by census metropolitan area, 2006 and 2007

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Census metropolitan area1, 2 2006 2007
number rate3 number rate3
500,000 and over population
Calgary 92 9.1 83 8.0
Edmonton 30 4.0 47 6.2
Hamilton4 18 3.5 31 6.0
Ottawa5 58 6.5 53 6.0
Toronto4 271 5.5 252 5.0
Vancouver 73 3.2 79 3.5
Québec 17 2.3 16 2.2
Winnipeg 15 2.3 14 2.1
Montréal 85 2.3 42 1.1
Total 500,000 and over population 659 4.3 617 3.9
100,000 to less than 500,000 population
Saint John 0 0.0 6 6.2
London 28 5.9 28 5.9
Kingston 13 8.5 7 4.6
Abbotsford 6 3.6 6 3.5
Regina 6 3.3 5 2.7
Kitchener 13 2.6 11 2.2
Greater Sudbury 1 0.6 3 1.8
Gatineau6 1 0.3 5 1.7
Halifax7 5 2.3 3 1.4
Victoria 5 1.5 3 0.9
Thunder Bay 1 0.8 1 0.8
Windsor 6 2.0 2 0.7
Saskatoon 0 0.0 1 0.5
St. Catharines-Niagara 0 0.0 1 0.2
Trois-Rivières 1 0.7 0 0.0
St. John's 1 0.6 0 0.0
Saguenay 0 0.0 0 0.0
Sherbrooke 0 0.0 0 0.0
Total 100,000 to less than 500,000 population 87 2.1 82 1.9
Total CMAs 746 3.8 699 3.5
Less than 100,000 population 146 1.7 86 1.0
Total 892 3.1 785 2.7
1. A census metropolitan area (CMA) refers to a large urban core (at least 100,000 population) combined with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of economic and social integration.
2. Populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. Excludes the CMA of Oshawa due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.
3. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population.
4. Excludes the proportion of crime from the Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.
5. Refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
6. Refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
7. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Halifax District Detachment.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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