Posted on 05/03/2023 11:45:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Untreated mental illness and 'prolific offenders' have left a rising number of Canadians fearing for their safety
Violent crime has technically been worse in Canada, but never quite like this. As recently as the early 1990s, the rate of knives and bullets being driven into Canadians was far higher than it is now.
But amid a dramatic uptick in national violence are trends the country has never really seen before. Police officers are being shot and killed on duty at unprecedented rates. Record numbers of Canadians are being randomly attacked by people they’ve never met, for seemingly no reason.
Just on Wednesday, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed and killed on a bus in Surrey, B.C. The tragedy occurs just two weeks after a 16-year-old was killed in a similar incident in a Toronto subway station. And in the interim have come a host of transit stabbings which didn’t make national headlines because the blades missed vital organs.
And worst of all, the crime is everywhere.
When Toronto was struck by the so-called “summer of the gun” in 2005, it was a shocking anomaly within a country that was otherwise enjoying another year of dropping crime.
In the first months of 2023, skyrocketing violent crime is the new reality in basically every Canadian time zone.
In Saskatchewan, First Nations leaders are sounding the alarm on a “crisis” of on-reserve violence. Newfoundland and Labrador is coping with a 20 per cent increase in violent crime severity. In the Yukon territory, politicians and RCMP officials are reporting crime that is both “more intense” and “increasing dramatically.”
A new survey published this week by the Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that two thirds of Canadians believe violent crime is visibly worse than it was before
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There is a religion that does that, only it’s called islam and it is a death cult pretending to be a religion!
Hockey aside, my time living in Canada taught that Canadians are a fairly non-conrontational bunch compared to what as then (1982) Americans. That makes a perfectly ripe atmosphere to take over the country socially.
It's demonic leftists that's caused it.
Climate change?
But, but...I thought that ONLY happened in the United States! Everyone who has come up with that statement must kneel before me and bow to the ground in order to be allowed to live.
'Tweren't like that when CCM and Northland made 'em outta wood, eh?
I thought murder and mayhem was just done in the US?
Just another reason FOX won’t air Tucker’s documentary , O Canada.
Need more midnight poutine.
You mean KNIFE control laws.
Even worse, ASSAULT knives!
Especially Fully Auto Knives....................
Knives, and then, there will follow, “Fully auto Hockey Sticks?”
What next?
The penalty box is full....
They got them just last year I think it was.
I went to watch the fights and a hockey game broke out.
How about open borders?
I know! Insane leftist policies!!
Canada needs more illegal aliens. Diversity is their strength.
The Moslems like using the silent blades. Slient until they strike, that is.
Perhaps the tons of fentany coming up from our southern border is also getting in to Canada. The illegal commerce triggers violent behavior. The use of it break downs the decision making areas of the human brain. The brain compensates by using the downstairs brain, also called the amygdala,which is our reactive and defensive brain. This is where fight, flight, or freeze responses come from.
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