VANCOUVER — British Columbia should have been able to anticipate a spike in hate to some degree during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to protect the people who became targets, the provincial human rights commissioner says. Kasari Govender released a nearly 500-page report following her inquiry into the rise of hate during the pandemic and made a dozen recommendations, including for the government to have plans to deal with hate speech and violence as part of its overall emergency preparedness. "Even though this may be the first global pandemic that many of us have experienced, it's not the first social...