Aboriginal people make up 5 per cent of Canada’s population – but nearly a quarter of its murder victims – National Post
November 26, 2015
TORONTO — Canada’s homicide rate remained at its lowest level in five decades last year but aboriginals accounted for a disproportionate number of the victims, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday.
Overall, police services across the country reported 516 killings in 2014 — four more than in 2013. The tiny uptick, however, had no effect on the rate, which was the same as in 2013 and the lowest level since 1966.
Among provinces, Manitoba had the highest homicide rate for the eighth straight year while Thunder Bay, Ont., picked up the dubious distinction of becoming Canada’s murder capital.
Guns were more frequently used — 156 times — but the overall rate of gun killings was at its second-lowest level in 40 years.
