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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's too bad this isn't a written article. So here's one from the same source that is similar, and also text-based:
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2040397/at-least-33-canadian-churches-have-burned-to-the-ground-since-may-2021-only-2-were-accidents


Something that was tossed around back when the trend of burning the churches down started, was that it was in response to the Catholic church playing legal games to avoid paying the 25 Million that they were ordered to pay as restitution, related to residential schools.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/world/canada/catholics-reparations-indigenous-canada-schools.html

They were "unable to raise" the 25 million to pay their victims, raising only 1.2 million, while at the same time spending way many multiples of that on new buildings. They raised $28.5 Million just for one building. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/critics-blast-catholic-church-1.6086030

So people burning down churches for this reason were not doing it as a hate-crime, it wasn't because they hated the beliefs of the church, it was because money went to buildings instead of paying the victims.