I don't think many people consider Toronto to be unsafe anymore. There is a bit of shock when people hear about how safe it is because they assume that larger cities have more crime and smaller cities have less, when it simply doesn't work like that.
Netnewsledger has a more in-depth story about the stabbing in Thunder Bay I posted on the previous page. It's a pretty interesting read. It clearly shows how ineffective organizations like Children's Aid are.
Thunder Bay hasn't had a Mac's robbery yet this month. We had 27 last year. All of our Mac's stores are now free of window displays, have more lighting (as in, they're brighter than Walmart inside), a more open area around the cash register, and all but 3 or 4 are now closed overnight. It seems to be helping a little bit, but both the police and Mac's have stated that the robbery problem is a social issue, and nothing that either organization can fix.