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Mazel Schlimazel
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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:17 am |
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WINNIPEG (CBC) - Gang-related violence accounted for almost one in four homicides in Canada last year, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.
Police reported 611 homicides in Canada in 2008, an increase of 17 from the previous year and a two per cent rise in the national homicide rate, Statistics Canada said in a report released Wednesday.
That rise coincides with the 138 gang-related homicides in 2008, 20 more than in 2007. These included homicides linked to organized crime groups or street gangs, as well as deaths of innocent bystanders.
Police in the metropolitan area of Toronto reported 24 gang-related homicides, the most of Canada's largest census metropolitan areas. But based on population, Calgary's 16 gang-related homicides gave it the highest rate among the 10 largest metropolitan areas.
With a rise in gang-related homicides came a rise in gun-related killings. There were 200 homicides committed with a firearm in 2008, 12 more than the previous year. Firearm-related crime has been increasing since 2002, and gang violence is the primary driver of this trend, the study found.
Three-quarters of gang-related homicides in Canada were committed with a firearm, compared with about 20 per cent of homicides unconnected to gangs.
Toronto police reported 50 gun-related homicides, again the most of all metropolitan areas, but Winnipeg and Edmonton had the highest rate of firearm-related deaths.
The study also found that the proportion of homicide victims in 2008 that were females was the lowest in almost 50 years. Females made up 24 per cent of homicide victims and died in homicides at a rate of 0.87 per 100,000 population, both the lowest numbers since 1961.
Statistics Canada said the decline could be connected to a corresponding drop in spousal homicide rates over the last 30 years, as well as the rise in gang-related homicides, which mostly targets men. Among solved homicides, 15 per cent were committed by a spouse.
Women are about three times more likely to be a victim of a spousal homicide than men, Statistics Canada said.
Western provinces and territories had the highest homicide rates, with Manitoba reporting the highest rate, followed by Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec reported the lowest rates.
While most gang-related homicides occurred in urban centres, the report found Canadians in rural areas were at slightly more risk of being a victim of a homicide.
In 2008, the 22.9 million Canadians living in one of the 34 major metropolitan areas had a lower homicide rate (1.8 per cent) than the 10.4 million Canadians living outside a city (2.0 per cent).
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/091028/canada/canada_homicide_canada_statistic_canada_gangs
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Imperator-Dei
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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:21 am |
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| Yay I just moved to Winnipeg! and it's got the highest rate of gun violence!
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Mazel Schlimazel
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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:22 am |
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What accounts for this rise? The economy? Certainly Canada's economy isn't as affected (thus far) by the downturn as is America's...
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Imperator-Dei
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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:23 am |
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| less population, soe any increase/decrease has a greater effect on the overall numbers... thats what the CBC(i think) said on the radio a few weeks ago...
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Mazel Schlimazel
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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:31 am |
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Imperator-Dei wrote: Yay I just moved to Winnipeg! and it's got the highest rate of gun violence!
And Surrey B.C. has the highest per capita incidence of car/automotive theft in the ENTIRE English-speaking world! 
Last edited on Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:31 am by Mazel Schlimazel
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Mazel Schlimazel
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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 05:38 am |
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Surrey, for crying out loud! You'd think there would be more sketchy cities in N. America with higher rates of car-jackings.
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IDL
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Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 10:11 pm |
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haha I know I was surprised when I found out that Vancouver has the highest car jacking rate. Maybe they should make the next GTA game based there!
Vancouver has a pretty high property crime rate as well I believe.
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Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 11:06 pm |
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I am sure glad that we here in Canada have gun control laws. Chuckle-chuckle. Yup, says the Feds, we have to get those guns belonging to farmers,hunters and target pistol groups registered. We never know when one of them will go berserk on us.
Hundreds of millions of taxdollars spent to try and get those outlaws to register their guns and still it would appear they are not listening. Shame on you outlaws. Go get your weapons registered will you. It's the -do as you are told- Canadian thing to do.
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TenaciousC
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Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 11:58 pm |
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The gun registry is about to be abolished. Let's talk about the 13 BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayers money the Tories squandered in 18 months.
Didn't think you wanted to talk about it, now; for your "witty" rebuttal....avoiding the subject.
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fedup taxpayer
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Posted: Sat Oct 31st, 2009 12:16 am |
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TenaciousC wrote: The gun registry is about to be abolished. Let's talk about the 13 BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayers money the Tories squandered in 18 months.
Didn't think you wanted to talk about it, now; for your "witty" rebuttal....avoiding the subject.
I missed that. So where did you read that the gun registry is to be abolished. If it is true, thank the Lord for that miracle. Let's put that money that would otherwise be spent on the registry towards more important things like MRI's,infrastructures and other more important things. It would seem that the more government we have in our lives the more problems and taxpayers dollars wasted. If only the governments would ask the people first, rather than always telling the people what they must live with whether they like it or not. I thought it was the people who were suppose to be in control and be the boss? It would appear that we are the slaves, not the masters.
Yes, let's talk about the billions of taxdollars that have been spent on that useless gun registry but also let's remember that it was the liberals who gave that registry to us and started that ball rolling. And while we are at it let's talk about numerous other useless government programs like multiculturalism,bilingualism for instance and the billions that were spent on those programs and agendas that were not neccasary.
We can go on and on about the taxpayers money that has been wasted but just look at as to who was in power and gave us all those sillyass programs. I don't believe it was the Conservatives. And I don't try to avoid any subject  .
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TenaciousC
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Posted: Sat Oct 31st, 2009 12:27 am |
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If you paid attention to Canadian politics, you would know that a private members bill is being introduced and all indications are showing that Ignatieff is going to allow a free vote.
Now, about that squandered 13 BILLION over 18 MONTHS!??!
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Posted: Sat Oct 31st, 2009 12:48 am |
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TenaciousC wrote: If you paid attention to Canadian politics, you would know that a private members bill is being introduced and all indications are showing that Ignatieff is going to allow a free vote.
Now, about that squandered 13 BILLION over 18 MONTHS!??!
I try to pay attention to Canadian politics as much as I can, ok. That 13 billion? It was a terrible waste of the overburdened taxpayers dollars. That money is now lost and never to be recovered. Look at what that money could have done and been used for rather than now gone down the toilet. It's shameful.
Hopefully, governments in the future will ask the opinion of the people first before they go ahead and start wasting more taxdollars on such programs like the gun registry. Maybe things like this would not happen again, if the politicians did.
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