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The Safest and Most Dangerous Cities in Canada - Survey
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by Blue Crush | March 5, 2009 at 06:42 am
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TORONTO - There is now more evidence today that the suburbs is the place to raise a family.
According to a survey by Maclean's magazine of the most dangerous cities in Canada, Caledon, York and Halton regions of Ontario are among the safest places to live in Canada, for the second year in a row. Oromocto, N.B., Levis, Quebec and Maskoutains MRC, Quebec also topped the list of safe cities.
Saskatoon is considered to be the most dangerous city in which to live, followed by Winnipeg, Regina, Prince George, and Edmonton respectively.
Canada’s two largest cities, Toronto and Montreal, also fared well. While news headlines leave the impression streets run with blood, the worst of the crime is committed within a few high-risk areas. Maclean’s ranked Toronto’s crime score a respectable 29th of 100 cities, improving from 26th last year. Montreal improved to 24th from 19th.
The West continues to have chronically high crime levels. Of the top 10 crime centres, only Halifax (No. 7) is east of Winnipeg. The others in the top 10 include Edmonton (No. 5) and the B.C. cities of Prince George, Chilliwack, Vancouver, Surrey and Victoria.
According to Statistics Canada, the overall crime rate was the lowest its been in 30 years in 2007. Thirty-four areas including Quebec City, Cape Breton, N.S., and North Vancouver, B.C. didn't have a single murder, while Montreal and Toronto both improved over the previous year's results.
Rankings are derived from 2007 per-capita crime rates, the most recent available from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.
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at 07:20 on March 5th, 2009
Wow... and Saskatoon has the least tough-sounding name in the country. For all of the negative press, Toronto is indeed a pretty safe city. Does anyone know what the actual number of PoCo murders is for 2007?
at 09:26 on March 5th, 2009
They should add the number of car accident deaths, and then suburbs would not look so safe to raise your kids. Better to live in a nice neighbourhood in Toronto and take the public transit. You will live to a ripe old age.
at 09:50 on March 5th, 2009
Old numbers, they should add the van-gang numbers of 08/09 deaths n shootings, am sure Vancouver would be right at the top.
...isn't it around 4dead per 48hrs -getting to be the norm now?
at 11:01 on March 5th, 2009
Vancouver B.C has grown to like the big american cities gangland style murders is getting to be the norm around here. Home invasions, kidnapping for ransome, and hate crimes is on the bottom of the list.
Vancover is very much multi culture this is why I like this city so much, but sadly what comes with new good cultures is there history of violence. I believe Vancouver or its outskirts is a great place to visit. I lived here practally all my life and I seen it grow from a murder every six months to killings almost every day. Olympics are around the corner there is a big problem with the homeless this is appart of the vancouver problem that the polititions are tryng to hide. And the homeless situation has alot to do with the vancouver gang crimes, drug dealling criminals with them dealing drugs to the homeless and then the homeless go out and do petty crimes to support there habit, and prostitution ect.. Selling illegal drugs is now the second oldest profession, and highly profitable to the point of murder.
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at 15:01 on March 5th, 2009
I'm surprised at Saskatoon - although everyone who lives there is so bored that there is nothing else to do (sorry, couldn't resist that one.)
at 15:34 on March 5th, 2009
I was surprised that it was Saskatoon too, but the figures they used are 2007. I'm sure Vancouver will be surpassing it next year. It's gotten downright crazy there!
at 12:37 on March 6th, 2009
I live in Saskatoon. Most of the crime here, and that's what was counted, involves people of a cultural subset, or commercial crimes like armed robbery. The bulk of the armed robbery is done with knives, so public cowardice and passivity is partly to blame. The other violent crimes, as I say, involve people who are part of a community and those outside that mileiu don't really get involved.
Now take the gunfights on public streets. Anyone could get hit by a stray bullet. Stray bullets can penetrate homes and kill innocent people in their beds. I think to jump on the stats and just lable a city as more or less dangerous without consideration for mitigating circumstances is nothing more than journalistic sensationalism. I've lived in the "inner city" "core neighborhood" now since 1992 and while I've heard some fights and seen some hoods, I've suffered no injuries or losses of property (except a bag of peanuts and some bubble soap).
I've also lived in Toronto and Vancouver in my life. This city is safer, even if the crime by population stats are higher.
at 19:27 on March 8th, 2009
It's quite a stretch to declare Saskatoon the country's most dangerous city based on these statistics. To find out why:
http://bit.ly/CNLJG
at 11:52 on March 9th, 2009
Thanks, great link! Might want to post the whole article quoted in response to this. I have lived in other cities and I know that saskatoon is not the most dangerous one in Canada. It just has a really high proportion of disadvantaged folks.
at 12:08 on March 9th, 2009
Canada seem much too dangerous!
It's sooo peaceful here in the Big Apple, with the lowest crime rate ever. If it wasn't for NYPD shooting someone ever so often, it would be "boring"...
at 12:32 on March 10th, 2009
But is that because it's safe, or because people have learned to stay inside? :-P
at 23:54 on July 31st, 2009
Canada is a safe place, especially compared to the US..
at 16:46 on March 17th, 2009
http://www.realclearworld.com/lists/most_dangerous_cities/saskatoon.html It looks like we're in the world's top ten now. LOL, some folks are angry about it here, saying it'll discourage migration here. I figure, why encourage people to move here in droves? Sure we've got tons of open jobs now, but after they all move here and take the jobs, then what? Personally I'm not interested in frightened people who'd let a flawed poll decide for them. OTOH, maybe this might make the city spend more on law enforcement. We could do with a bit more budget on the police force.
at 23:47 on March 23rd, 2009
ok this must not be true...i cannot agree with this list, toronto should be in the top 5 dangerous cities, not that i want it to, but i want the world to know that toronto has a problem,
i used to live in sacrborough, (ellesmere and morningside) and every month someone got killed in my area. My friend got fatalay shot too. I want the world to know that toronto has a problem!
at 22:07 on April 11th, 2009
I live in Quebec city and it's safe like fuck....I forgot my laptop the whole day in my car WITH THE DOORS UNLOCKED and at the end of the day it was still there
at 00:02 on August 1st, 2009
I totally agree with you, Quebec City is the best...Not too many immigrants in Quebec City and that's one of the reasons why it's so safe.
P.S. Don't play the racist card on me, my gf is asian, she knows my opinion on that and she totally agrees..We welcome immigrants with open arms and look how they thank us. (Not generalizing of course)