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The Rankings: Canada's most dangerous cities

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The Rankings: Canada's most dangerous cities


Misc CDN | 207345 hits | Oct 15 11:44 am | Posted by: tritium
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First, the good news. For the second year in a row, Caledon, Ont., 40 km northwest of Toronto and a world away, ranks as the safest city in Maclean�s annual crime ranking of Canada�s 100 largest cities.

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  1. by avatar Benn
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:40 pm
    The three cities share several things in common: much of the crime is rooted in poor, inner-city cores and targets its most vulnerable citizens. There is a large gang presence feeding off the drug trade and other illegal activities. Those areas also house a young transient population, with a low level of education, substandard housing and high levels of unemployment, broken homes, addictions and psychiatric issues?all risk factors for crime. They have proportionately the highest urban Aboriginal populations among major cities, about 10 per cent. This is a predominately young population, burdened with risk factors. ?They are 10 times more likely to be victims and suspects,? says Neil Boyd, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University. ?It?s basically a very tragic reality.?


    And at least in Winnipeg this area (20% of the city) makes up for 75% of the crime.


    (Edit: Took off link to map of Winnipeg crime stats. If you want to see all the black dots in the North West of downtown go here http://www.winnipeg.ca/CrimeStat/ and pull up any map then revise for "all city.")

  2. by avatar Public_Domain
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:41 pm
    :|

  3. by ASLplease
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:25 pm
    In my trip across the country this year, I stayed at the HoJo best western in Winnipeg. I paid $130 , which was among the most expensive we paid, yet it was the only place where I was truly nervous about my truck getting broken into.

  4. by Anonymous
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:42 pm
    Why is this thread about Winnipeg? The top two cities, and half of the ten are in B.C..


    Maclean's complete top 10, beginning with the most dangerous:

    Prince George, B.C.
    Victoria, B.C.
    Regina, Sask.
    Saskatoon, Sask.
    Fort McMurray, Alta.
    Kelowna, B.C.
    Grande Prairie, Alta.
    Surrey, B.C.
    Chilliwack, B.C.
    Winnipeg, Man.

  5. by avatar raydan
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:02 pm
    Let's see... why did I move to Qu�bec City?

    Quebec�s capital, incidentally, is another safe haven. Its crime score for the six offences tracked in the Maclean�s index (murder, robbery, aggravated assault, sexual assault, breaking and entering, and auto theft) ranked 40 per cent below the national average in 2007, the last year for which Statistics Canada data are available. Even more impressive for a city of 535,000, it recorded not a single homicide that year�by far the largest of 34 cities that were murder-free.


    In reality, I had no idea, although I could have guessed that it was safer than Montreal and the suburbs. :D

  6. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:18 pm
    Drugs drive crime, especially in a port city like Vancouver, he says. And feeding drug habits is the key cause of B.C. property theft. Vancouver police are monitoring 379 chronic criminals with an average of 39 convictions each. Perversely, the jail time given the worst of these drops as their number of convictions rise, a study by the department found.


    Given this fact, we don't need more prisons, we just need more victims. :roll:

    Once again the Liberal left has the population reaping the rewards of their years of politically correct and humane crime fighting stratagies.

  7. by avatar QBC
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:27 pm
    "Mr_Canada" said
    Classless society = Win


    Never happen.

  8. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:28 pm
    "Mr_Canada" said
    Classless society = Win


    Drugs are the problem, not society.

    Once, for whatever reason, you become an addict, you're already part of a great classless portion of society, that caters to former lawyers, doctors, plumbers, oil workers and everyone else who thought it'd never happen to them.

  9. by avatar QBC
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:30 pm
    "Freakinoldguy" said
    Classless society = Win


    Drugs are the problem, not society.

    Once, for whatever reason, you become an addict, you're already part of a great classless portion of society, that caters to former lawyers, doctors, plumbers, oil workers and everyone else who thought it'd never happen to them.

    True story.... R=UP

  10. by avatar EyeBrock
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:41 pm
    I'm surprised Victoria is. I've never been there and I'm assuming heroin/crack is why?

    Left coast people? What is going on in Victoria?

  11. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:43 pm
    "EyeBrock" said
    I'm surprised Victoria is. I've never been there and I'm assuming heroin/crack is why?

    Left coast people? What is going on in Victoria?



    Same thing that's happening in every other western city. Drugs, Gangs and a lack of intestinal fortitude by our judical systems to prosecute and punish these perpatrators to the fullest extent of the law.

    So in essence, we're living in the wild west, with the only distiction being that if you mete out vigalante justice you go to jail and the criminal gets a pass.

  12. by avatar QBC
    Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:45 pm
    Their comment about the west having worse crime rates and I have to agree with the Calgary alderman. You go to resource towns, here in Grande Prairie and Ft. Mac come to mind, you have a lot of young people making big money. They work hard and play harder in these towns. Drugs, prostitution, gambling, all the vices are on overdrive in these types of communities. Not to mention that in many of these areas, they are by far the biggest centers and draw in the reprobates from a large geographic area. Prince George is the perfect example in BC. All northern highways lead there and every criminal and hooker from every little northern town eventually "drains" into Prince George. All the run aways, druggies, out of work what ever all head for the larger centers and add to their crime rates over time.

    I read an article in the local paper here a year and a bit ago that there were over 140 prostitutes working the streets off Grande Prairie. We have a population of 55k, but during a boom time, that number would grow by 50% and guess what, all men here working hard with loads of cash. The girls followed them here. When the boom was over last year, they disappeared for the most part. I'd be willing to bet our crime rate here dropped last year substantially.

  13. by ASLplease
    Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:22 am
    the problem in the west is all the good lawabiding citizens have their firearms in hiding because they dont want to register them. therefore the criminals have nothing to fear anymore.

  14. by avatar Unsound
    Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:29 am
    "ASLplease" said
    the problem in the west is all the good lawabiding citizens have their firearms in hiding because they dont want to register them. therefore the criminals have nothing to fear anymore.


    That must be it, cause I sure miss the old days of wandering the streets of downtown Edmonton at night, feeling perfectly safe with my gopher gun under my trench coat.

    On a completely unlrelated note, is there some kind of icon or smiley meaninig "one note song"?



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