This might be surprising because it goes against stereotypes of polite Canadians, but after working for many different countries’ media I didn’t get much misogyny/racist messages until I moved back to Canada.
https://twitter.com/sabaeitizaz/status/1443952644544938026
Also, a lot of malicious and outlandish gossip among some Canadian journalists targeting women journalists of colour who dared to succeed. A male B.C. journalist spent time on the clock “investigating” if I had fabricated events I wrote about. Probably stemmed from jealousy!
My editors had to send him my travel tickets and correspondence to get him off my case... No doubt that he wouldn’t have found me “suspicious” if I looked like him. 🙄 This is just one of several embarrassing incidents on the part of a small but vocal toxic minority of Canadians.
But the opposite kind of Canadian definitely exists as well. I live on this cookie cutter suburban cul-de-sac and if we’re not quick shovelling our driveway, a neighbour would get there before us. And yesterday someone left a pumpkin on our doorstep! 
Like how do you respond to random free pumpkin? If I left a pumpkin on all of my neighbours’ doorsteps and then they reciprocate by leaving pumpkins on everyone else’s doorsteps, it’ll be a never-ending cascade of pumpkins!! 🤔
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