Homicide stats in Canadian Cities - Page 321

BlackDog204 · #**6401** Posted **Mar 28, 2024, 8:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by theman23

Not sure how accurate that is. Quebec and NFLD should probably swap colours and BC should be the same colour as Alberta.

It's completely inaccurate.

The map would give one the idea that Yukon is the deadliest province/territory (untrue), and that Nunavut is relatively tame (not true). Manitoba is the province with the highest homicide rate, but on the map, they label Saskatchewan as the color of the highest.

Acajack · #**6402** Posted **Mar 28, 2024, 1:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by theman23

Not sure how accurate that is. Quebec and NFLD should probably swap colours and BC should be the same colour as Alberta.

I don't know what year the stats are from. Some recent years NL has been higher than QC.

BlackDog204 · #**6403** Posted **Mar 31, 2024, 7:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I don't know what year the stats are from. Some recent years NL has been higher than QC.

Doing colours on a chart for one single year, is impractical. Places like the Territories and PEI have too few people to make an accurate sample size. It must be done over multiple years.

An example would be Nova Scotia's 2020 per-capita murder rate. It's much higher than any other year due to the worst massacre in Canadian history. Excluding the massacre, the murder rate is relatively low in the province.

The same goes for places like Yukon and Nunavut. If one man kills his family of 5, then himself one year, it would spike the per-capita murder rate up, considering there are less than 45,000 people in each territory.

A ten year average gives a more accurate reading.

JuelzJones · #**6404** Posted **Mar 31, 2024, 9:01 AM**

Toronto - 18
Winnipeg - 10
Edmonton - 9
Montreal - 8
Ottawa - 7
Calgary 3
Vancouver - 1

harls · #**6405** Posted **Apr 1, 2024, 1:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by JuelzJones

Ottawa - 7

6 of them by one guy.

Luisito · #**6406** Posted **Apr 4, 2024, 4:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

6 of them by one guy.

Has anything been said about what the motives behind that masscre were?

kwoldtimer · #**6407** Posted **Apr 4, 2024, 8:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Luisito

Has anything been said about what the motives behind that masscre were?

One is unlikely to hear anything official before the trial.

kwoldtimer · #**6408** Posted **Apr 12, 2024, 2:44 PM**

Fatal shooting, apparently targetted, Kitchener suburbs last night.

Acajack · #**6409** Posted **Apr 12, 2024, 2:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

One is unlikely to hear anything official before the trial.

Mental health issues I am almost positive. Sure perhaps there was a dispute over rent or something else as he was a tenant in the family's home.

Still, who kills six people like that including little babies if they're in their right mind?

ssiguy · #**6410** Posted **Apr 12, 2024, 8:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by JuelzJones

Toronto - 18
Winnipeg - 10
Edmonton - 9
Montreal - 8
Ottawa - 7
Calgary 3
Vancouver - 1

I appreciate the stats but I don't think they represent what is going on in the real world. Some cities take in the vast majority of the Metros like Calgary while some a very small amount like Victoria hence you don't get a true reflection of the murder rate of the "cities" due to potentially not including higher murder rate areas which are often in lower income suburbs. Victoria is a safe city but it can go years without a murder but that is due to the city itself being very wealthy and only having a population of 90,000. Nearly all the murders in Greater Victoria are outside the city itself.

I think a better metric is stats for the metropolitan area.

kwoldtimer · #**6411** Posted **Apr 12, 2024, 8:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Mental health issues I am almost positive. Sure perhaps there was a dispute over rent or something else as he was a tenant in the family's home.

Still, who kills six people like that including little babies if they're in their right mind?

Arguably, most people who knowingly and gratuitously take a life have mental health issues but in most cases they remain criminally liable.

Luisito · #**6412** Posted **Apr 13, 2024, 9:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

I appreciate the stats but I don't think they represent what is going on in the real world. Some cities take in the vast majority of the Metros like Calgary while some a very small amount like Victoria hence you don't get a true reflection of the murder rate of the "cities" due to potentially not including higher murder rate areas which are often in lower income suburbs. Victoria is a safe city but it can go years without a murder but that is due to the city itself being very wealthy and only having a population of 90,000. Nearly all the murders in Greater Victoria are outside the city itself.

I think a better metric is stats for the metropolitan area.

Fair point. I agree with you.

In the case of WInnipeg, all the homicides are concentrated in a couple of inner city areas making them some of the most dangerous areas in the country.

kwoldtimer · #**6413** Posted **Apr 20, 2024, 12:39 PM**

52 year old man shot and killed yesterday in Manor Park neighbourhood of Ottawa in what police describe as a targeted shooting. The location is directly across the street from Rockcliffe Park.

JonHiseler · #**6414** Posted **Apr 22, 2024, 11:30 PM**

Halifax just had its 3rd homicide of the year this afternoon. A teenage boy was stabbed in the parkade of the Halifax Shopping Centre.

begratto · #**6415** Posted **Yesterday, 9:13 PM**

Quebec as a whole (population : 9M) is at 22 so far this year :

Montreal GMA total (pop 4.5M) : 17
Island of Montreal (pop 2.0M) : 8
Montreal suburbs off-island (pop 2.5M) : 9
Quebec City (pop 0.8M) : 2
Elsewhere in Quebec (pop 3.7M) : 3