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Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools

Anonymous email targeting nine Islamic schools across three provinces prompts law enforcement response.

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Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools

What this story says

  • Nine Islamic schools operated by the Muslim Association of Canada received an anonymous email threatening violence against Muslims.
  • The email, which vowed Canada would be 'Islam free,' was sent to schools in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec within a 24-hour period.
  • Peel Regional Police are investigating the hate-motivated threats, with increased police presence near affected schools.
  • The Muslim Association of Canada described the scope of the threat as unprecedented for their organization.

Who covered it

Left 33%(5)Centre 54%(9)Right 13%(2)

Percentages are shares of the 16 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 8 of the 24 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

60/100

Craft

65/100

Hype

20/100

24 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

Only 2 of the 16 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

An anonymous email containing threats of violence against Muslims was sent to nine schools operated by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC). The email threatened the 'slaughter' of Muslims and stated Canada would become 'Islam free.' The schools are located in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec, and received the messages over a 24-hour period.

Peel Regional Police confirmed their hate crime unit is investigating the threats. Police increased their presence near local mosques and schools in the Peel region and stated patrols would continue over the weekend. Other regional police forces in Ontario, including London, Waterloo, and Ottawa, are also investigating threats to schools within their jurisdictions and collaborating with other law enforcement agencies.

The Muslim Association of Canada stated that while they have received hate comments on social media previously, a single email targeting multiple schools is unprecedented. Nabil Sultan, a MAC spokesperson, described the email as disturbing for teachers, administrators, families, and children, and a reminder that threats persist.

Disagreement on the number of schools targeted

The Muslim Association of Canada stated nine of its schools received the email, according to City News. Winnipeg Free Press also reported that nine Islamic schools were on high alert. However, CBC News reported that the Muslim Association of Canada said eight private schools it runs received the email.

What the coverage left out

None of the centre-rated reports or digests mention the specific sender identification from the email, 'Jehu, Citizen Vigilante,' or the email address 'exposingNWO@protonmail.com' that CBC News reported. The left-rated report also did not include the detail that the email was signed by a 'Citizen Vigilante' as reported by City News.

Coverage settled. We checked this 13 times and stopped on 1 Oct 2026, 01:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

How other outlets pictured it

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An Ottawa Police Service vehicle is shown stationed in front of Abraar Elementary School in Ottawa on Thursday afternoon. The Islamic school was one of eight schools to receive an email threatening violence against Muslims this week. (Pierre-Paul Couture/CBC)
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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

5 rated outlets

  • CBC News led on the investigation by Ontario regional police forces into the threatening email sent to Islamic schools across Canada. The report detailed the content of the email, including threats of deportation and 'slaughter' unless Muslims were removed from Canada. It quoted a MAC spokesperson describing the threat as unprecedented and referencing past hate-motivated violence. The report also included reactions from parents and detailed the responses of multiple police services across Ontario.

Centre

9 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated outlets reported that nine Islamic schools across Canada received an email threatening violence against Muslims. The Muslim Association of Canada stated the emails were sent to schools in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec over a 24-hour period.
  • These reports noted the email was signed by a "Citizen Vigilante" and threatened the "slaughter" of Muslims, vowing Canada would be "Islam free." Police forces in multiple regions, including Peel, London, and Waterloo, confirmed they were investigating.
  • City News and CTV News reported that police increased patrols near mosques and schools. CTV News also quoted spokesperson Nabil Sultan, who expressed devastation and noted the organization had hired security. Sultan linked the threats to rising Islamophobia in Canada.

Right

2 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the right coverage of this story. The right-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools?
Of the 16 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 33% are rated left, 54% are rated centre, 13% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 24. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 16 rated outlets on this story, 33% are rated left, 54% are rated centre, 13% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools biased?
Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools is one event reported by 24 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Police investigate anti-Muslim threats sent to Canadian schools?
24 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What happened at the Islamic schools?
Nine Islamic schools operated by the Muslim Association of Canada received an anonymous email containing threats of violence against Muslims. The email vowed that Canada would become 'Islam free' and threatened the 'slaughter' of Muslims.
Which areas were affected by the threats?
The anonymous email was sent to schools in Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec over a 24-hour period. Police forces in these regions are investigating the incidents.
What is the Muslim Association of Canada's response?
The Muslim Association of Canada stated that receiving a single email targeting multiple schools is unprecedented for their organization. They described the email as disturbing and a reminder that threats against the Muslim community persist.

Read it at the source

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Right

2

Not rated

8

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