Canada Hate Crime

Ottawa, April 6, 2025 — A 27-year-old Indian national, Dharmesh Kathireeya, was fatally stabbed in what is being investigated as a suspected hate crime in Rockland, Ontario, a township near Canada’s capital. Kathireeya, originally from Bhavnagar district in Gujarat, had moved to Canada in 2019 as an international student and was currently working on a permit.The incident occurred Friday afternoon when Kathireeya was exiting a shared laundry room in his residential building. Witnesses said a white male neighbor in his 60s, who had previously hurled racial and anti-Indian slurs at Kathireeya and his wife, attacked him with a knife in…