Brothers charged with spreading fake snuff porn on Internet: From Canadian Press, "Two brothers have been charged with making obscene material for their Internet site, including pornographic videos that feature simulations of women being killed ... Wayne Harrison of the Ontario Provincial Police said they looked at the possibility of laying hate-crime charges against the pair because of the way women were depicted in the material ...
"Unfortunately the hate laws in Canada do not include gender as a group that can be the victim of a hate crime," he said. "

Obscenity law is a bit of a patchwork in Canada, but the kind of obscenity they are talking about in the article is a matter of federal criminal law. Mixing explicit sex and violence is generally considered obscene and "harmful" in Canada. Until this past summer, even bondage videos were generally unavailable in Canada and routinely ceased by wonderful Canada Customs. However, I have heard that bondage videos have started to appear in Quebec video stores, passed by the video classification board. I am not sure if that is the case in Ontario at this point.