Just forget the crime, the homeless migrants the Liberals need to next election (thank China for allowing Justin to have one), the lack of housing and jobs and just about everything else:
A report released on July 27 indicates that police-reported crime in Canada, as measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI), was up by 4 percent in 2022. The violent CSI went up 5 percent in 2022, following a 6 percent increase in 2021. In 2022, there was a 15 percent higher rate of robberies, 39 percent more extortions, 8 percent more homicides, and 3 percent more sexual assaults.
The national murder rate was up for the fourth consecutive year, with 874 murders in 2022, an increase of 78 deaths from 2021.
The homicide rate has not been that high since 1992, increasing from 2.08 per 100,000 population in 2021 to 2.25 per 100,000 in 2022.
StatCan says the rise is largely due to three provinces seeing more homicides, with an increase of 30 murders in British Columbia, 26 in Manitoba, and 26 in Quebec.
The highest provincial homicide rate was in Manitoba, at 6.24 murders per 100,000 population, followed by Saskatchewan at 5.94 per 100,000. Meanwhile, Northwest Territories had 6.58 homicides per 100,000 people and Yukon had 4.57 per 100,000.
The indigenous community—including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit—had a homicide rate of 10.98 murders per 100,000 population, almost seven times higher than the non-Indigenous population at 1.69 murders per 100,000.
The agency says crime went down during the first year of the pandemic, in correspondence with the first implementation of lockdowns, but otherwise the Crime Severity Index (CSI) had been rising for five consecutive years beginning in 2015.
Across Canada, only New Brunswick, Yukon, and Nunavut recorded less crime from 2021 to 2022. Manitoba, meanwhile, had the highest CSI increase in 2022, up 14 percent, for both violent and non-violent crimes.
In 2022, said StatCan, police-reported fraud, including general fraud, identity theft, and fraud, was 78 percent higher than a decade ago. Cybercrime, which includes fraud and extortion, was also on the rise.
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Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, which measures police-reported crime, was up four per cent overall last year. The index for violent crime showed a five-per-cent increase in 2022, following a six-per-cent increase in 2021. The 531,243 violent incidents reported in 2022 are a 39-per-cent increase over the 382,115 reported in 2015, when a nine-year downward trend in violent crime began to reverse.
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Police say the suspect faces a charge of second-degree murder in connection to the shooting of a 24-year-old Toronto man.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents recently disrupted an attempted smuggling run moving 14 Indian nationals from Canada into the U.S. across the Quebec-New York State border, court records show.
This was one of the largest interceptions of Indian nationals by the U.S. Border Patrol in a single smuggling event over the past three years along this area of the Canada-U.S. border, according to U.S. federal court records.
The driver of the vehicle the agents stopped said he was recruited for the smuggling run in a manner resembling a spy novel. The location of the interception may also signal a shift in the tactics of smuggling networks operating in the area.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the border area known as the Swanton Sector runs from the New Hampshire-Maine state line to the western half of New York State south of Ottawa. This sector records the highest rate of irregular traffic flowing into the U.S. along the Canada-U.S. border. The heaviest traffic moves over the borders of Quebec and the U.S. states of New York and Vermont.
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Now, now, Tiffy - don't put all of your incompetence on the migrants.
That's unfair.
Your failed predictions helped, too:
But problems caused by rapid immigration are beginning to show. First of all, the Bank of Canada struggled to pin down the impact of the newcomers as it tried to cool economic growth.
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem has said immigration adds to both supply and demand, but the overall effect has increased the need for higher interest rates. While immigrants helped ease a labor shortage, they added to consumer spending and housing demand.
“If you start an economy with excess demand (and) you add both demand and supply, you are still in excess demand,” he said about immigration earlier this month after hiking rates to a 22-year high of five per cent.
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Can you and Olivia house all of these Liberal voters?:
Canada's new housing and infrastructure minister says closing the door to newcomers is not the solution to the country's housing woes, and has instead endorsed building more homes to accommodate higher immigration flows.
Sean Fraser, who previously served as immigration minister, was sworn in Wednesday morning as part of a Liberal government cabinet shuffle aimed at showcasing a fresh team ahead of the next federal election.
He comes to the role at a time when strong population growth through immigration is adding pressure to housing demand just as the country struggles with an affordability crisis.
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Toronto is asking residents to open up their homes and offer available rental units to asylum seekers as more than 200 people remain temporarily sheltered at two North York churches.The city added 250 additional shelter spaces within the last week, through hotels and an existing emergency shelter, but these spaces are already full.More than 200 people are staying at Revivaltime Tabernacle and Dominion Church in North York, two churches that opened up as temporary shelters last Monday for asylum seekers who were sleeping on the street outside a downtown Toronto shelter intake centre for weeks. The churches warn that while they won’t force people out onto the street, the costs to run the shelters are increasing significantly and the efforts aren’t sustainable.The 250 additional shelter spaces were unanimously approved by council last week as part of a plan introduced by Mayor Olivia Chow to address the influx of asylum seekers, mostly from African countries.Many people slept outside as the city and federal government sparred for weeks about who is responsible for footing the bill for providing additional shelter space. Toronto’s 9,000-bed shelter system is full most nights. About 300 people are turned away from the system nightly, with half of them being asylum seekers, according to city data.Ms. Chow’s plan also included a program to encourage residents to offer available rental units at or below market rate to the asylum seekers through DonateTO. Landlords can offer their properties through the portal, which will be shared with agencies helping find more permanent accommodations for asylum seekers.
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A Toronto man has been arrested and charged with terrorism offences for allegedly helping to recruit and fundraise for the Islamic State, the RCMP said Friday.
The charges against Khalilullah Yousuf come months after he was charged with similar offences in the United States for allegedly providing financial support to the terrorist organization.
According to a statement from the RCMP, who say they have been investigating Yousuf since March 2021, the 34-year-old allegedly “made and disseminated pro-Islamic State propaganda on social media for the purposes of radicalizing and recruiting people” to join the group.
Investigators also allege Yousuf conspired with an overseas Islamic State member to “commit terrorist attacks against foreign embassies in Afghanistan,” and provided propaganda and research for similar attacks in that country.
Yousuf faces one count each of facilitating terrorist activity, participating in terrorist group activity, and providing or making available property and services for terrorist purposes.
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