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It's been a really bad weekend so far for Chicago. After a shooting and a stabbing on the CTA (both victims survived), a robbery gone bad and at least three other shooting deaths have brought Chicago's total this year to nearly 50.
It's been a really bad weekend so far for Chicago. After a shooting and a stabbing on the CTA (both victims survived), a robbery gone bad and at least three other shooting deaths have brought Chicago's total this year to nearly 50.
Yikes. The total is now 8 (!) deaths just since Friday night. A seven year-old girl was shot but has thankfully survived. Three of the 8 murders were robberies that went really bad. At least six or seven others were shot but survived. This week will likely be the bloodiest of what has already been a violent year.
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Greater Toronto 6.9 million...…………...11
Greater Vancouver 2.7 mullion...……...7
Greater Montreal 4.5 million...…………..2
Greater London 545k & Greater Windsor 350k...……….zero for both
Can you link where you are getting your stats from please?
They do. Just gets a little tired when Canadians come here and promote how their cities with large land areas, and in some cases limited diversity, have lower homicide rates. If you compare like for like, such as Vancouver and Seattle, they have comparable murder rates. And as bad as Pioneer Square is in Seattle, it's nowhere near as nasty as Downtown East Side in Vancouver.
Also annoying because so many educated Canadians move here because our wages are so much higher, and there's more opportunity in the US.
They do. Just gets a little tired when Canadians come here and promote how their cities with large land areas, and in some cases limited diversity, have lower homicide rates. If you compare like for like, such as Vancouver and Seattle, they have comparable murder rates. And as bad as Pioneer Square is in Seattle, it's nowhere near as nasty as Downtown East Side in Vancouver.
Also annoying because so many educated Canadians move here because our wages are so much higher, and there's more opportunity in the US.
Thousands of Americans also move to Canada every year.
Your post has nothing to do with the thread anyway, just say you are bitter because your neighbor to the north is far from reaching the astronomical violence levels seen in the US.
Thousands of Americans also move to Canada every year.
Far more Canadians move to the US than the other way around. This thread is also in the US forum, so should stick to American cities. You should probably keep your inferiority complex north of the border.
They do. Just gets a little tired when Canadians come here and promote how their cities with large land areas, and in some cases limited diversity, have lower homicide rates. If you compare like for like, such as Vancouver and Seattle, they have comparable murder rates. And as bad as Pioneer Square is in Seattle, it's nowhere near as nasty as Downtown East Side in Vancouver.
Also annoying because so many educated Canadians move here because our wages are so much higher, and there's more opportunity in the US.
I know of no Canadian city with limited diversity.
Secondly, if you go by the stats, yes Canada is much safer. In 2018 we had 651 murders, in a population of nearly 38 million. You guys had over 16,000 murders, in a population that is 8.5 larger than Canada. So to have the same rate of homicides in Canada, you would need to lower that 16,000 to 5,533.
For stats to have any meaning, you need to look at several years, and not the blips.
Pioneer Square and the DTES are gritty but safe overall. The DTES is not dangerous, just unsightly, and a very small part of the city. Four blocks or so long, one or two wide.
Yes Seattle is one of your safer cities, but it's not representative of the US as a whole.
Educated Canadians move all over the world for work. If the are going to the US it's because they were either recruited, or the company NEEDS them. So I don't think this has anything to do with homicide rates.
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