Hi Julien ,
First I just wanna let you know that I have lived in Edmonton downtown for almost one year during my stay in Canada and this is why, for my next step, I am interested to move back there and also this why I am participating on the Edmonton Forum.
I wanna share with people on Edmonton forum some highlights of the Police-reported crime statistics in Canada for the year 2011 which was released on July 24, 2012 and can be found on this link (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2 … 92-eng.htm)
1- Crime severity:
Among the 4 provinces, those in the west, reported higher crime rates and crime severity index (CSI), Saskatchewan reported the highest CSI in 2011, followed by Manitoba, British Columbia and Alberta (89.4). The average Police-reported crime severity index all over Canada is (77.6)
2- Violent crime:
Among the 5 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) those reported higher Police-reported Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI), Regina continued to report the highest CSI value, followed by Saskatoon, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg and Edmonton (102). The average Police-reported Violent crime severity index all over Canada is (85.3).
3- Homicide:
- Manitoba maintained the highest rate of homicide among the provinces for the fifth year in a row, followed by Saskatchewan and Alberta (2.9). Average rate of homicide all over Canada (1.7).
- The homicide rate increased in 2011, up 7%. The largest increases were reported in Alberta (+39%) and Quebec (+24%).
-Winnipeg reported the highest homicide rate among all census metropolitan areas (CMAs), followed by Halifax and Edmonton (4.2). Average homicide rate all over Canada (1.7).
4- The only offences to show an increase in 2011 were homicide, sexual offences against children, child pornography, criminal harassment, impaired driving and most drug offences
Note: A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighboring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.
In the same regards, one of my friends here in Cairo who knows my interest in self-defense and security, had a seminar recently in her company about “women security” and “children abduction” with the following topics. She mentioned that herself and most of her colleagues found it interesting.
The topics are:
1- Children abduction:
- Introduction to child abduction.
- What should never/should be done (young children/ teen)
- What you should be avoided/ be done to protect your precious ones.
- How to talk to your little ones about it?
- Steps.
- Role plays.
2- Women security:
- Residential Security
- Home Security While You Are Away
- Personal Security While Traveling
- Personal Security in Hotels
- Carjacking
- Surveillance
- Sexual Assault Prevention
I have the materials of the above topics (2 pdf files) and I wanna share them on the members of Edmonton forum, maybe these files will of some interests to any member. Could you please address me how to do that ??????
One more thing I offered the same thing on Cairo forum (under discussing a topic named Staying safe in Cairo ) and my post was on April 29, 2013 during which I asked the Cairo forum team members to share the pdf files but nobody addressed me how to do it.
Finally, I wanna add some tips to be kept in mind (these tips were already posted on Cairo forum on April 29, 2013):
1-Keep in mind all the time that safety is your own responsibility (Yours/ your precious ones) as “don moe” mentioned previously.
2- Have a positive mindset “Self Confidence”, which will be developed by:
- Believe in yourself.
- Have the attitude of “never giving up”.
- Be willing to make whatever necessary to survive.
3- Use “stimulus response training”
- If you have the space set some dynamic scenarios, and learn or create limited number of survival responses of your own to memorize (as you increase the no. your response time will increase which is not favorable).
- If there is no space use hands-on drills.
4- Use Visualization drills:
It is mental preparation by assuming the situation and your response. This will reduce anxiety, enhance the performance and tunes the nervous system and hence decrease the reaction time.
5- Faith Factor:
It will create a state of the mind that assists in controlling the heart rate when confronted with imminent danger.
Stay safe all.
MO.
Police-reported crime statistics in Canada for the year 2011
Hello MO2013. 
I've created a new thread from your message on the Edmonton forum for more visibility.
Thank you for this article and those tips.
Aurélie
Hello MO2013,
These figures, since they are percentages and per capita counts, will mean very little to members reading them, in most cases.
What really needs to be stressed is that Canada is one of the safest countries in the world, it also has one of the best standards of living too. Vancouver, for example, has consistently been voted the best city in the world to live in.
One fact that I would like to point out is that the number of homicides in ALL of Canada has hovered around 600 for decades now. That's right, only 600 murders in the whole country per year which is an incredibly low figure.
More impressive is that of those approximately 90 percent are solved within the first year.
I left Canada for Brazil eleven years ago and you can believe me that I was shocked by the violence here. The cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have more murders in one year than there are in all of Canada.
Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team
If you think Canada is bad, go to New Jersey.
Hi wjwoodward,
I completely agree with you, comparing to many other countries, yes Canada is the safest.
I can clearly point that by comparing my experience in Canada and my stay in my home country Egypt where I am living right now.
However, being safe is something always you have to put in mind, maintain and under no condition is able to negotiate; and this is one of the greatest things I have learnt from my involvement in the Canadian community.
The greatness of the Canadian Culture appears in publishing such reports like the one in here. Canadian society does not look at this report (and the number in it) as small percentages or take it as a very little numbers to consider (as you mentioned). They also do not show-off by being the safest country.
The main goal is to tell the people (by detailed analysis) that even though it is very safe, however, there are still some chances for such things to happen (in short words "stay safe").
I wanna state clearly that, I had no intention when I raised this topic to discuss either Canada is safe or not. Also I had no intention to discuss if do like to live in there or what are the standards of living.
The thing is that I have practiced self-defense while my stay Canada for 2 years (and still doing in Cairo). In addition, I have passed couple of certifications in security (done by Saskatoon police Sheriffs). Such solid experience is what I wanted to share with members of the forum either Edmonton or Cairo.
If you refer to my article again you will find that I was offering to share 2 pdf files about “women security” and “children abduction” which the 2011 Canadian police report highlighted.
All what I wanted to tell is that if there is any body interested in having such information feel free to contact me.
I hope that you can get my point clear this time.
Cheers,
MO.
Hi HaileyinHongKong,
I wonder have you really read my article carefully? Moreover,through which part of my article did you get the idea that I am telling that Canada is bad?.
I invite you to have another look and you will definitely know that all the information was brought from the 2011 Canadian police report highlights and not mine. Also you will get to know the main goal of the article.
Cheers,
MO.
Your are welcome Aurélie
Cheers,
MO.
Hi MO2013,
I know that you weren't at all saying that Canada was good or bad. I was just pointing out that the figures have little meaning for those who aren't into statistical analysis.
I actually feel that figures sometime tend to cloud important issues and that it's often far better just to make a clear statement that summarizes the information contained in such reports. Also, many get to be so boring that people just stop reading them and miss the point being made altogether.
In terms of personal safety Canada has always been one of the safest nations to live in, crimes against people have always been low and are going down every year. Crimes against property is also relatively low when compared with most other countries and the figures corrected to compensate for population differences.
Also interesting to note that Canadians care so much about their fellow residents that we've created a great many social assistance programs that are so liberal and generous as to include all who need them, we even tolerate a certain level of abuse of these programs because we know that by tightening them up we will only deny assistance to many who really need it.
These are a few of the many reasons that I'm proud to be a Canadian even though it has been many years now that I moved away.
Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team
MO2013 wrote:Hi HaileyinHongKong,
I wonder have you really read my article carefully?
I didn't read any articles at all.
wjwoodward wrote:Also interesting to note that Canadians care so much about their fellow residents that we've created a great many social assistance programs that are so liberal and generous as to include all who need them, we even tolerate a certain level of abuse of these programs because we know that by tightening them up we will only deny assistance to many who really need it.
In other words, you're all a bunch of commies.
No Hailey, just a bunch of softies. hehehehe
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