It is fairly high for Halifax although only a few off from previous years so not crazy high.

I think the thing that was more impressive this year was the bad start to the year

pretty much all of the 15 were in the first five or so months of the year,
there was a lot of gun play and drug involvement, which seemed to be the main motives

anything else seemed to be personal disputes, its rare to have a murder be random in here.

Halifax always did have a high crime and violent crime rate per capita though, especially for this part of the country .

Number 4 (possibly) for St. John's

EDIT: Police said the death wasn't suspicious...I'm assuming whoever lit this car on fire was too stupid to step away from the car when throwing the match.

http://vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&ID=18800

Windsor is at 26 months murder-free!

Salvatore Montagna, ex Boss of the New York Bonanno family was killed earlier today in Montreal North Shore

http://images.lpcdn.ca/569x379/20111...-assassine.jpg


http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/...200/story.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Montagna

Quite the picture there... :(

Nope, we had our first homicide yesterday. A 26 month stretch is very good though, it's too bad it came to an end.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...-stabbing.html

My mistake, I didn't notice the posted link above.

Even though the homicide-free record was broken, Windsor should be extremely proud of itself. 26 months and only 1 murder is a very impressive feat for any city over 100,000 people. London, in comparison, had its sixth homicide of the year about a week ago, which took place at a tenement in a distressed part of the downtown. Very sad considering that this time last year we were at half that number. I wish people here would have the same sort of civic pride that you find in Windsor, although that being said we're still thankful this ain't Regina.

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2.../18984376.html

London has "tenements"? Really?

A run-down apartment building full of low-income people would be a tenement. It's an uncommon word for such a building though. I don't know about London, but Thunder Bay has been putting effort into shutting tenements down over the past few years. Most in my neighbourhood have been condemned, but a few exist. One of them has fire damage and is occupied by about 20 people from the north who had nowhere else to go.

Calgary might not have this issue because it is a newer, richer city, but in poorer eastern cities, run down multi-unit housing is a problem, primarily caused by neglectful or absentee landlords (aka slumlords).

How does civic pride affect murder rates?

I don't get this statement at all.

If we are going to reach to the idea that a city can be "proud of itself", how does "civic pride" enter into when or how a murder happens?

Murders are basically impossible to predict, or prevent. And they almost always happen between people who know each other. Do you think any would be murderer or victim is wondering at the point the violence occurs that "hey, what will the good citizens of the community think!".

Good grief. Murders suck. But don't judge a community based on the fact some douchebag decides to stab his buddy to death in a drunken stupor (this isn't based on any specific crime, just an example of a common murder scenario in Winnipeg).

^^^ i have thought about murder quite a few times, but i consider myself a huge supporter of Winnipeg and i just couldn't live with myself if i damaged the city's civic pride. So knowing that i have refrained..........for now:sly:




................i have said too much

haha yep, that's the only thing stopping me from going on a homicidal rampage... I don't want to tarnish Toronto's squeaky clean image!

Son of a bitch, I totally jinxed it!

wow that's not something you see everyday...

Sal's effort to become capo didn't end too well,more to follow it's payback time

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfou...fire-1127.html

Number four for St. John's. I'm assuming anyway that arson when knowing well that people were inside the house SHOULD lead to murder and attempted murder. But yet again, anything is possible with the RNC (ie. a drug dealer was stabbed, shot and left for dead last month downtown, and the men who did it were only charged with robbery with violence and aggravated assault. But not the obvious attempted murder charge)

I don't think Canada has an "attempted murder" charge, because I have never seen it used either.

I've only ever seen it used here when coupled with a murder charge. Like when someone stabs 2 people, and one of them die, the aggravated assault charge against the survivor is upgraded to attempted murder. I've seen a lot of attempted murder charges laid in Halifax though, so I don't know if it's a provincial thing or not.

A man here went on a rampage in an apartment building, threatening and stabbing elderly people until police took him down, and his highest charge was "theft over $5,000".

Probably not a good comparison though since he is mentally deranged. (Part of Harris's "the criminally insane can live peaceful lives with elderly people and children" legacy.)