Metro van is at a murder rate of 1.00 every 3.48 days. At this rate if things stay the same which hopefully they wont - metro van would be looking at 105 homicides for the year.

Toronto is at 13 down from 19 last year i think...GTA is at 21......really low this year.....this summer is going to be bad though, i feel it for some reason.

It's amazing how well Toronto, and Montreal especially do in terms of murders and safety in general. Of course, even one murder is too much, but to have such a low rate is truly admirable for cities of this size! I hope this doesn't change and your prediction about the summer is wrong...

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Thunder Bay has a "Newfie's Pub" ? ouch!

It used to be located two blocks down from me, my uncle was killed beside it. A few weeks later it moved into the Empire hotel, which was condemned last summer and will probably be torn down later this year. (It's literally falling apart, there was chunks of brick around one corner this afternoon that wasn't there a few days ago, I think the NW corner is sliding down into the street.) It's now in a little building across from the east entrance of the Victoriaville Civic Centre, which used to be Armani's. They've put a smoking section right by the cross walk and cigarette butts are everywhere, there is a roof top patio area (which is apparently called "The Rock"; their logo is an outline of the island) and it plays mostly country music. There are tiles on the façade of the building that are falling off all over the place. Basically, everywhere that bar goes, it fucks up the building it is in.

It's a terrible place. Since it moved out of the Adanac (its original location), crime in this area has actually gone down! The centre of prostitution has shifted east, away from Simpson Street. It's amazing how one poorly run but perpetually operating dive bar can fuck up an area so much, or how an area can rebound once it is gone.

It was even replaced by a bar, but that bar doesn't cause as much problems as Newfie's did. The building also has 100% occupancy on the main floor, something it couldn't achieve while Newfie's was located in it.

Two teens gunned down in Abbotsford. Is Abby in the MV?

Metro Van now at 33 till someone corrects me.

i wouldnt consider abbotsford to be in metro van. although the west coast express ends there but it is really quite far away.

Abbotsford is its own CMA. Not part of "metro," for statistical purposes.

Ottawa had its 2nd murder of the year yesterday. This article from http://www.cfra.com is a short summary, but they had some gruesome details on the radio this morning. Sounds like he was beaten really badly and I believe the cause of death they are referring to would be the pieces of skull all over the room. No one deserves a death like that.

I think Halifax is still at 3 homicides this year I believe but something interesting has been happening in the schools here;

In many seperate events two different schools have been shut down due to massive fights breaking out. The two schools serve the Preston area of HRM where a murder occured a few months back and is believed to be the main reason behinds the fights.

So far about 17 people have been arrested, a few sent to hospital and many more disciplined by their respective schools.

Toronto - 17

GTA - 28

3rd one for Ottawa

2 more for Halifax...

Woman who's body was found in a school ground monday night, and a man in his 30's killed at a Dartmouth rooming house last night. I think that makes 5 this year so far.

Man killed in Surrey, Metro Van at 32

A murder from 2007 (the one that happened on Christmas eve) is the first murder to have a trail by jury in a decade in this city. Some of the stuff coming out of that case are absolutely disgusting.

This makes 4 the official count so far. The year isn't even half over.

Woman found dead in lighthouse. MV at 33.

Things seems to be cooling off in Vancouver. So, who won? The Red Scorpions or the United Nations?

Homicide victim from Thunder Bay
The Canadian Press (via The Chronicle-Journal) | May 23, 2009
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/top_story.php?id=187568

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. – A 43-year-old woman from Thunder Bay has been identified as the homicide victim found early this week in a rugged suburban Vancouver park.

West Vancouver Police say the body of Tammi-Lynn Louise Cordone was spotted Tuesday morning by a hiker in Lighthouse Park on Vancouver‘s north shore.

It‘s believed she was living in the park at the time of her death but police have not yet indicated how she died.

Homicide teams from the West Vancouver and Vancouver police departments weren‘t able to say Friday if the killing was random or targeted and urged anyone using the heavily forested, waterfront park to be cautious.

The incident is the second time in less than two months that a woman has been killed in a Metro Vancouver-area park.

On April 3, RCMP were called to Pacific Spirit Park near the University of B.C., after the body of 53-year-old jogger Wendy Ladner-Beaudry was discovered.

However, Cpl. Dale Carr said Friday investigators have compared notes and found the two murders are not related.

“Investigators from IHIT (the integrated homicide investigation team) have liaised with the investigative team looking into the murder at Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver and at this time have found no links to the Ladner-Beaudry homicide.”

He said officers will stay in touch as each investigation progresses.