On June 30, 2020 CTV reported:
Hate crime charges are being considered after anti-Semitic symbols, and references to the Holocaust were painted [on June 29, 2020] in nine different spots through downtown Barrie [Ontario]. Swastikas were painted on the exterior of businesses in the core. The slide at Berczy Park was defaced with the names of Hitler, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank… A 50-year-old man faces nine counts of mischief.
