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Old Posted Aug 9, 2011, 3:31 PM
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So to put Edmonton's current rate in perspective, looking at it annualized it would be 55/1,000,000, meaning 5.5 on that chart. A league of its own.
Yup. And Calgary's would be 0.5 or so. Meaning this year Edmonton is abnormally high, and Calgary is abnormally low.

But again, with numbers so small it doesn't take much to skew well above or below an average. It's not like hundreds of extra (fewer) people are being murdered.
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