Canada’s homicide rate unchanged in 2014: Some facts
Posted Nov 25, 2015 12:05 pm.
Last Updated Nov 25, 2015 12:40 pm.
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TORONTO – Canada’s homicide rate remained at its lowest level in five decades in 2014, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday. Some numbers:
National:
Homicide victims in 2014: 516
Aboriginal victims: 117 (23% of all cases)
Homicide rate: 1.45 per 100,000 population
Provinces (Number of homicides in 2014/rate of homicides per 100,000):
1. Manitoba: 44/3.43
2. Alberta: 104/2.52
3. Saskatchewan: 24/2.13
4. Prince Edward Island: 3/2.05
5. British Columbia: 88/1.90
6. New Brunswick: 9/1.19
7. Ontario: 155/1.13
8. Quebec: 71/0.86
9. Nova Scotia: 6/0.64
10. Newfoundland and Labrador: 2/0.38
Territories (Number of homicides in 2014/rate of homicides per 100,000):
1. Nunavut: 4/10.93
2. Northwest Territories: 3/6.88
3. Yukon: 3/8.22
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Urban centres by homicide rate (Number of homicides in 2014/rate of homicides per 100,000):
1. Thunder Bay: 11/9.04
2. Winnipeg: 26/3.29
3. Edmonton: 40/3.01
4. Saskatoon: 8/2.61
5. Saint John, N.B.: 3/2.35
6. Abbotsford–Mission, B.C. 4/2.24
7. Calgary: 31/2.19
8. Regina: 5/2.09
9. Moncton, N.B.: 3/1.94
10. Trois-Rivieres, Que.: 3/1.94
Some other major centres by rate:
11. Vancouver: 46/1.86
14. Toronto: 83/1.38
19. Montreal: 39/0.97
23. Ottawa: 7/0.71
Source: Statistics Canada
