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Canada’s most dangerous cities: The rankings

The top 100, from the most dangerous to the safest

by macleans.ca on Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:30pm - 0 Comments

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RANK	CITIES	PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCE WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME SCORE
1	Prince George, B.C.	90.41%
2	Victoria, B.C.	80.65
3	Regina, Sask.	73.35
4	Saskatoon, Sask.	68.85
5	Fort McMurray, Alta.	68.08
6	Kelowna, B.C.	64.95
7	Grande Prairie, Alta.	63.50
8	Surrey, B.C.	60.34
9	Chilliwack, B.C.	58.32
10	Winnipeg, Man.	57.08
11	Red Deer, Alta.	53.57
12	Nanaimo, B.C.	48.34
13	Edmonton, Alta.	48.00
14	New Westminster, B.C.	45.97
15	Belleville, Ont.	45.40
16	Saint John, N.B.	44.95
17	Burnaby, B.C.	39.04
18	Vancouver, B.C.	37.40
19	Lethbridge, Alta.	31.95
20	Kamloops, B.C.	31.62
21	Maple Ridge, B.C.	31.32
22	Brantford, Ont.	30.93
23	Thunder Bay, Ont.	29.05
24	Montréal, Que.	28.54
25	Langley Township, B.C.	23.97
26	Abbotsford, B.C.	22.18
27	Cornwall, Ont.	21.46
28	Joliette, Que.	19.34
29	Saint-Jérôme, Que.	18.76
30	North Vancouver, B.C.	15.47
31	London, Ont.	12.33
32	Halifax Region, N.S.	11.45
33	Mirabel, Que.	7.94
34	Shawinigan, Que.	6.20
35	Windsor, Ont.	5.02
36	Drummondville, Que.	4.67
37	St. John’s, Nfld.	3.87
38	Chatham-Kent, Ont.	3.33
39	Sarnia, Ont.	-1.33
40	Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.	-1.50
41	Hamilton, Ont.	-1.77
42	Brome-Missisquoi, Que.	-2.31
43	Fredericton, N.B.	-2.79
44	Richmond, B.C.	-3.53
45	Longueuil, Que.	-4.71
46	Moncton, N.B.	-4.99
47	Medicine Hat, Alta.	-5.02
48	Trois-Rivières, Que.	-5.20
49	Cape Breton, N.S.	-5.40
50	Sudbury, Ont.	-7.18
51	St.Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que.	-7.49
52	Maskoutains, Que.	-7.73
53	Coquitlam, B.C.	-7.89
54	Victoriaville, Que.	-8.04
55	Calgary, Alta.	-8.50
56	Peterborough, Ont.	-8.68
57	Toronto, Ont.	-9.03
58	Granby, Que.	-9.61
59	Gatineau, Que.	-10.17
60	Delta, B.C.	-11.60
61	Saguenay, Que.	-12.07
62	St-Eustache, Que.	-12.56
63	St. Catharines, Ont.	-13.30
64	Sorel-Tracy, Que.	-15.87
65	Kitchener, Ont.	-15.88
66	Port Coquitlam, B.C.	-16.06
67	Kingston, Ont.	-16.15
68	Laval, Que.	-16.44
69	St. Albert, Alta.	-17.77
70	Barrie, Ont.	-18.47
71	Sherbrooke, Que.	-18.95
72	Thérèse-De-Blainville, Qc.	-19.82
73	Ottawa, Ont.	-21.68
74	Québec, Que.	-22.46
75	Terrebonne, Que.	-22.47
76	North Bay, Ont.	-23.18
77	Sherwood Park, Alta.	-25.23
78	Alma, Que.	-25.92
79	West Vancouver, B.C.	-27.41
80	Châteauguay, Que.	-28.02
81	Durham Region (Oshawa/Whitby/Ajax), Ont.	-30.89
82	Guelph, Ont.	-32.15
83	Saanich, B.C.	-33.96
84	Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton), Ont.	-35.18
85	Norfolk, Ont. (Opp)	-36.05
86	N. Vancouver District, B.C.	-38.30
87	Repentigny, Que.	-38.33
88	Rimouski, Que.	-40.27
89	Roussillon, Que.	-40.50
90	Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Que.	-41.09
91	Blainville, Que.	-41.58
92	Vaudreuil-Soulange, Que.	-44.26
93	Innisfil, Ont.	-44.40
94	Richelieu Saint-Laurent, Que.	-47.72
95	York Region (Markham/Vaughn), Ont.	-49.10
96	Nottawasaga, Ont.	-49.68
97	Lévis, Que.	-51.10
98	Oakville, Ont.	-57.55
99	Wellington County, Ont.	-57.79
100	Caledon, Ont.	-69.73

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barrx

i lives in pg!!!!!!
bob

PG!!!!!!! wooooooooooooo
Jimi

PeeGee REPRESENT!
Michael

I totally agree Mls….this is one bogus report…..you'd think MSN.ca came up with this rubbish….or some cheesy gossip show like Access Hollywood or something…Star TV….crap like that…..political spin….typical typical typical.
Shayla

The smaller the town the more easy it is to get pull people into gangs. I'm from Prince George, and it's not like some scary horrible town I would be more scared in a bigger city.
Westkraut

Toronto is not safe from Bed Bugs!
Joe

And boredom.
Jerry

Lot of illiterate folks here. Shocking.
New Brunswicker

I agree this is completely wrong …Saint john in N.B is # 16 wtf Not correct what so ever
Utah

I do not agree that Edmonton is that dangerouse i lived there for 2 years and LOVED IT! Edmonton Rocks! But I would have to agree that northern towns like Prince George and Fort Mcmurray and places in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The reason the crime rate is so high is because places like that are cut off and BORING. Its cold depressing and UGLY and nobody really wants to live there they just go and work there for the money or cause they have no choice. Prince George and Fort Mcmurray and Manitoba and anywere in Saskatchewan is ugly and sucks. Its just the truth. Go to Vancouver , Toronto , Montreal , Jasper, Banff , Calgary or Edmonton and you will understand why those other places are so ugly compared to these citys.
joe

LOL you must have got it right where the hell do you think all the problems come from DRUGS. PG is a stopping ground for alot of the drugs that are moving north to FORT ST JOHN , Dawson Creek, Grand Prairie,Fort MacMurray,Fort Nelson most of these cities drug dealers make runs to PG to buy there drugs that come from that area and up the Frazer Caynon form the island and Vancouver areas so yes you have it right they must be on DRUGS
mongo

Spin… Spin… Spin….. WTBLEEP CARES? With the way criminals are treated in the country I am surprised McLeans isn't looking into ways to improve the lot of the criminals… Legalize Armed Robbery? Enact an Open Door Policy No locked homes? Capital Punishment for someone interfering with a crime in progress?

Time Criminals LOST ALL RIGHTS… Period…. Then watch the crime rate fall….
riotska

Its funny because I've been all over North America numerous times and only Toronto likes to make themselves look big and bad and when the stats come in, they always have something to say like "You guys have no idea what goes on in Toronto… it's alot worst than any of these cities!".Grow up Toronto. Stop trying to make yourselves look like the Rich city of Canada and the Poor city and Ghetto City at the same time. We all know how young and Naive and wanna be American.

Admit the facts that you are not NEARLY as dangerous as you anticipate to be.
STG

Are you trying to tell me Kelowna is worse than Winterpeg? NOT!!!!!
Andrea

I am planning on moving to Kelowna in 2011 didnt like that it is at 6th place
Andrea
jake

glenmore and mission part of kelowna is fine but rutland and down town is where all the teenagers and adults go to steal cars every night or b&e or snatch purses or rob people and one my my friends was walking downtown and someone tried raping her but she got away and another one of my friends got jumped for no reason at all just stay away from downtown and rutland
Dianna

Idiot, the rating says Toronto is #57 on the list, which means, Toronto is much safer. I doubt Toronto makes itself look like a bad ass as you claim (I am Torontonian) and barely ever hear people here trying to be the bad ass.
EMY

Lol, I've felt exactly the same thing about Torontonians for years — they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to look 'bad', then they want to look 'good'. What the heck do they really want?
PS: I was born in Toronto!
EMY

Dianna, why do you have to call riotska an "idiot"? Go ahead and generalize about groups, but to verbally assault an individual, by name, on this board, is just unfair.

And, given that you admit to being a Torontonian, it cements in the rest of our minds what we all suspect about Torontonians (as a group) …

Oh by the way, if you read riotska's post carefully, you'll see he/she makes perfect sense. No, I won't explain it, just go back and read it more carefully (or is that another trait of Torontonians, jumping to conclusions? …)
karina

I wish all Canadians would grow up and start to mature
Knows the Truuth

Well from a firsthand view in Regina it's the natives doing the crimes and most of it,if not all, are against natives. The inner city is a nasty place to live I know Iived ther for the first 20 yrs of my life. Look at the problem in all of the cities in the west…you can point to the native dynamic….Boo hooo we had to go to school and were abused…get over it and join society already…..stop having 465 kids and get money from welfare
schooner

The crime rate has been falling for years
Moose

According to a recent poll, Newfound land has the third friendliest culture in the world. According to this poll, St. John's is more dangerous than Toronto. I don't think so.
This poll is crap. The pop. of St. John's is 120000 and the pop. of Toronto is 2.5 million. If 20 people from each city commit crimes then the crime rate of St. John's will be higher. Therefore making St.John's more dangerous according to these idiots.
george

dude, your retarded, you cant legalize armed robbery
urneighbour

it wouldn't be just criminals losing all rights it would be us all, submission without susipicions, lose your property because one person believes your doing something illegaly even if their wrong…is that a world you wanna live in….paranoa rama….come on get with it.
Phyllis

The article seems confusing on many levels. Before reading this article I happened to read an article about alcohol and crime in the northern territories of Canada. Mention was made of their very high crime stats which were reported as being far higher than in the more southerly parts of the country. Strange that none of that showed up in this article but only stats from the southern provinces. (See me scratching my head now.) Secondly, the title itself is confusing since it states it is dealing with cities yet many of the places listed are towns not cities – many are so small that I have never even heard of them and I have travelled this country from coast to coast! Guess I'll have to get out a map and try to find them!
sunshine

PROTIP: not everyone from one city acts alike
Vince

Wouldn't it make sense that "parts" of Toronto have higher crimes rates than others? The reality is that Toronto has its more affluent neighbourhoods as well as poorer ones, and this may be correlated with crime rates. So aren't you generalizing a group with your comments on "Toronto wanting to look bad and good"? Why can't it be both? Other cities in Canada are in the same situation, so I suppose that riotska doesn't "make perfect sense" and neither do you.

Now I have lived in Toronto my entire life, but I have also traveled a lot and spent a good amount of time in cities around the world, and I can tell you that I'm not surprised by Toronto's ranking. I've never had any problems with crime here and I know very few who have. Most of the violence/crime that does occur is among gangs, so it's not a concern to most unless you're in that kind of environment. In fact, I've noticed that others who live in the higher ranked cities, and have commented on this page, have said that they've never had issues with crime either but they note gang activity as being the likely reason for it. Toronto is no different in that respect.

So, I suppose that the fact that you were simply born in Toronto does not mean much at all. Your comment is insulting, ignorant, and condescending. I truly don't understand why some people speak so poorly about Toronto and Torontonians. I love my hometown and I assume that most people in Canada love theirs as well. I have nothing against the rest of Canada. I love Canada and I have no wish to be American (not that there's anything wrong with that), and everyone I know in Toronto feels the same. Really, I'm just glad to know many people around Canada that do not share your feelings about the place. It's a great place, but I have to admit that there are many great places around Canada too.
GST

LMAO this post is simultaneously condemning ignorance and doling out a large helping of it
DifferentGuest

Oh, a lesson about generalizing from the person who says "And, given that you admit to being a Torontonian, it cements in the rest of our minds what we all suspect about Torontonians (as a group) … ". The hypocrisy of this is staggering.
Murray Sr.

I don't think you know the truth about the native people. Look back into history of the people and you'll see if it weren't for the native people we would be just another star on the American flag. Furthermore when the usa and canada where discoverd there where already people living here The Native People We the white people stold the land from them, and stuck them all on reservations !!! So who's Bless and Who's to blame. Give your head a shake and study the history of it all. I'm white and Married to a Native. We spend alot of time at the reservation and I'm treated very well. Most of my froends are Native people in fact I have very little respect for the white man
wth maclean's???

Also, have to say that in some cities, whether large or small, some of the crime goes unreported. Obviously you have no real way of reporting something that's unreported, LOL. Just something to consider. In some places they know that it's more of a hassle reporting crimes and you'll get absolutely nothing for your efforts. Most Toronto police will come up with all kinds of excuses about why they "can't come and take fingerprints" when your home's been robbed, for example. Seen this enough times to say, why bother with them?
Seen it

If it wasn't for colonization by the Europeans, the whole of North America… including the Natives… would be no better than a third world country like those in the Caribbean or Africa and they'd be stealing, killing and raping each other anyways. The majority of on-reserve natives moan about going back to their roots, their culture. If that's the case, then stop flying in caseloads of booze since that's NOT part of your culture. Also stop sniffing glue and other solvents… that's not part of your culture either. Stop living on welfare and go hunt and fish and build your own houses instead of getting handouts. Of course you don't want that. Let them play the martyr card for another 500 years and see how educated, civilized and conforming to laws they become.
Vivian

Wow! It is so disheartening to know that there are people like you out there. That you can sit on your high horse, and judge people as you do. Really? How can you justify blaming only native people for crime??????
brusky

we did not steal the land from the we conqured it fair and square, their lucky we gave them the reservations they have. being that i was one of the only white kids at an ellementry school bordering a reserve i know allot about them. i was beat nearly every day of ellementry school my town is covered with Indian outlaw and 712 tags both native gangs in the area, according to other reports williams lake has the highest crime rates in canada and it is because of the native popuation in the area. they are paid to go to school and college and givin tax free land to hunt on as much as they want and yet they drink don't go to school and steal from us and each other.
The truth

I'm sure you are happy to cash the handouts(welfare) so you can drink yourselves into a stupor…no sence improving anything cause your pissed all the time and get money handed to you cause "we were here first"… enough about who has done what when…just get out of the gutter and be a part of society..!!!
get it right

Phyllis, get out that map, honey. Most of these places are cities. Get up on your geography!
Lucinda

Kelowna is not that bad at all. It is a lovely area and when you move here, you'll see that too.
BETH

I lived in Calgary for 7 years….. There has been nothing but drive by's and murder. I am now living in Halifax. Born and raised here, and they are saying Halifax is more violent than CALGARY! LMFAO!
Guest

Just because your past experiences with a few people of a WHOLE CULTURE, does not give you the right to assume that the 'natives' are the ones who are causing the problems. Just the same as there being a murder and someone assuming its a coloured person because they assume they are the only ones who could ever possibly kill, not taking into consideration the thousands of lives the white people have taken. From someone who has studied culture, I think that you are making a racist assumption from your personal experiences about an entire population. AS WELL AS accusing the whole population of being undereducated drunks which is completely arrogant and rude of you.
And by the way, we did NOT conquer this land fair and square. The white culture came to Canada, took all of the Aboriginal experiences and knowledge, and then killed them after raping and stealing from them. We did not take it fair and square. It was stolen, and whatever 'freebies' you think they get, they deserve.
Utah

They go Unreported to the public but the goverment keeps it on file and thats were they got the statistics from so it is still counted in this report. There is know way they aren't kept somewere on file.
Utah

Yes thats true but because the population in that city is smaller then thats a larger percent of the population commiting crimes.