---
title: "A Poison-Pen Email Crosses Canada, and the Mounties Join the Hunt"
description: "RCMP and more than six police forces probe a death threat sent to Islamic schools, invoking an Alberta ‘nation’ and vowing Muslims will be ‘deported or slaughtered’"
author: "Sterling Vance"
published: 2026-09-28T22:04:57.293Z
modified: 2026-09-29T07:25:09Z
url: https://rews.cc/a/a-poison-pen-email-crosses-canada-and-the-mounties-join-the--6b9c64
language: en
tags: ["hate", "politics", "security", "islamophobia", "canada", "us", "world"]
publisher: "Rews (https://rews.cc)"
---

# A Poison-Pen Email Crosses Canada, and the Mounties Join the Hunt

*RCMP and more than six police forces probe a death threat sent to Islamic schools, invoking an Alberta ‘nation’ and vowing Muslims will be ‘deported or slaughtered’*

By Sterling Vance · September 28, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/a-poison-pen-email-crosses-canada-and-the-mounties-join-the--6b9c64

## In brief

- RCMP confirmed they are among more than a half-dozen police forces investigating a threat emailed to Islamic schools across Canada
- As of Friday, schools in the Muslim Association of Canada network — mostly in Ontario, plus Montreal and Vancouver — received the note
- The note references Alberta’s upcoming referendum with a secession question, saying Muslims will be “deported or slaughtered” once “Alberta becomes its own nation”
- RCMP said there is no information suggesting an imminent threat but urged the public to remain vigilant; Vancouver police increased patrols
- Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree, MP Iqra Khalid and mayors of Mississauga and Ottawa condemned the threats

The email arrived the way these things arrive now — no stamp, no handwriting, no face, just dehumanizing language against Muslims landing in the inboxes of Islamic schools across an entire country. Schools in the Muslim Association of Canada’s network, mostly in Ontario but also in Montreal and Vancouver, had received the note as of Friday, according to CBC News, which first reported the story. And by Monday afternoon, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had confirmed what the scale of it already suggested: this was no longer any one city’s problem.

The RCMP are among more than a half-dozen police forces now probing the threat, the national force told CBC News. “Law enforcement agencies are working collaboratively with school leadership to investigate the reported threats and assess all available information,” the force said in a statement Monday, adding: “We remain committed to public safety and encourage anyone with information or concerns to report them to police.”

Here is where the geography turns strange. The Mounties said their northwest region — the division covering the Prairie provinces, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut — is looking into the note. The force had no immediate explanation for why that region is involved. But a section of the email seen by CBC News offers a grim hint: the note alludes to the upcoming Alberta referendum, which includes a question about an eventual secession vote, and states that Muslims will be “deported or slaughtered” once “Alberta becomes its own nation.”

> deported or slaughtered

Let that sit for a moment. A menace with a modem took a live constitutional question — a real referendum, on real ballots, in a real province — and bent it into a fantasy of ethnic cleansing, addressed to *schools*. To children.

The dragnet, meanwhile, reads like a roll call of Canadian policing. Ottawa, Waterloo Region, Peel Region, London, Ontario, and Montreal all told CBC News last week that they were involved in investigations; schools in each of their jurisdictions had received the note. On Monday, Vancouver police said in a statement that they too are investigating and have increased patrols across the city.

For all that, the RCMP’s public message was calibrated to calm: “investigators have no information to suggest an imminent threat; however, members of the public are encouraged to remain vigilant.”

The political class, for once, spoke in a single register — disgust. After CBC News published its initial story on Friday, condemnations came from federal and municipal officials alike. The office of Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said the government is “deeply disturbed by the threats directed at Islamic schools and the fear they have caused students, families, educators and Muslim communities across Canada,” adding that “Canadians must stand together against Islamophobia and all forms of hate.”

For Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, the story is not abstract. “Two of my own nieces attend one of the schools that received threatening messages,” she said in a statement, calling herself appalled. The MP for Mississauga-Erin Mills said the threats must be taken seriously and that “those responsible must be held accountable.”

Her city’s mayor, Carolyn Parrish, called the threats “incredibly disturbing” and said threatening children is “especially despicable.” Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said he was “deeply troubled” by the messages.

So the file now sits with the Mounties and six-plus municipal and regional forces, spread from the Pacific to the St. Lawrence, chasing a sender who mistook a referendum for a licence and a school mailbox for a stage. The note promised a nation purified by deportation and slaughter. What it has produced instead is a country of police forces, ministers, mayors and one member of Parliament with two nieces in the line of it — all answering at once.