Two locations of a Jewish-owned bagel chain in Toronto were hit by overnight attacks involving gunfire and vandalism, and police say they are investigating both incidents as suspected hate crimes.
Toronto police officers responded shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday to a Kiva's Bagel Bar location near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West after receiving reports of damage to the storefront. Officers found a shattered window and evidence that a firearm had been discharged at the scene. No one was injured.
Roughly twenty minutes later, police received a second call, this time to another Kiva's Bagel Bar location across the city, near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West. That storefront's front window had also been broken, though investigators found no evidence of gunfire at the second site, Just the News reported.
Both attacks occurred overnight, before staff or customers arrived. Authorities are treating both incidents as suspected hate-motivated.
The coordinated nature of the attacks, two separate locations of the same Jewish-owned business, struck within the same overnight window, raises obvious questions about whether a single perpetrator or group targeted Kiva's Bagel Bar specifically because of its Jewish ownership. Toronto police have not named any suspects or released descriptions. No arrests have been announced.
Investigators have not disclosed what led them to classify the incidents as hate-motivated. The source does not reference any graffiti, threatening messages, or other indicators at either scene beyond the property damage itself. Whether surveillance footage exists or has been recovered remains unclear.
No injuries were reported at either location. The method used to break the window at the Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West location, where no gunfire evidence was found, has not been specified by police.
As of the report's publication on July 26, 2026, no public statement had been issued by Kiva's Bagel Bar's ownership or management. It is not clear how many total locations the chain operates in Toronto or whether additional security measures have been taken at other storefronts.
The incidents arrive against a backdrop of rising concern about antisemitic acts across North America, though the package does not reference specific prior incidents targeting this business or comparable Toronto cases. What is clear from the available facts is straightforward: someone shot up one Jewish-owned bagel shop and smashed the window of another, on the same night, in the same city.
When a community's businesses are targeted for who owns them, the authorities owe that community more than a classification label. They owe answers, and arrests.
