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Alberta’s government is supporting the Jewish community and taking another step to fight hatred by endorsing an internationally recognized working definition of antisemitism.

Albertans can help inform government actions to address racism and build a more inclusive province.

Alberta’s government will study recent hate-motivated crimes and incidents to develop recommendations to prevent these crimes from happening in the future.

Minister of Justice and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro issued the following statement on the fire that destroyed a Catholic church in Fort Chipewyan: 

A new plan for taking meaningful action to address racism will help build a more welcoming and inclusive province for all Albertans.

Two new hate crimes community liaisons will help connect groups affected by hate crimes with the justice system to help protect vulnerable Albertans.

The Alberta government is now reimbursing organizations who enhanced their security strategy in response to hate-motivated attacks before the province began providing money to do so.

Alberta is expanding the Alberta Security Infrastructure Program so that vulnerable organizations can be reimbursed for already made security upgrades.

Premier Jason Kenney announced funding for the Alberta Security Infrastructure Program has increased from $2 million to $5 million annually.

CALGARY - Alberta is more than doubling its funding for a program that aims to protect places of worship from hate crimes and vandalism. Premier Jason