Most Dangerous Small Towns & Cities In Canada
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2021
- It is time we explore the most dangerous small towns and cities in Canada. As a follow up to our biggest cities list, this list hones in on the smaller towns throughout the country. Canada is unique in that the small towns often have more crime than the big cities, at least per capita. By far this has been the most requested topic we cover, so we do just that in the Most Dangerous Small Towns And Cities In Canada!
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I could give you a lot of details on Grande Prairie Alberta since I live here and I'm in full agreement that this is a dangerous city. Last month someone broke into my house broad daylight when I was home, I knew a lady who had her neighbor attacked in an home invasion not to mention the police chases I've watched. Grande Prairie is switching from RCMP to city police and they are in the process currently
Try Nipawin sask from murders ,breakins ,beating seniors just out walking ,thefts ,suicides ,and more
@@RoseCote-ju7tn In other words, beautiful as some of these places might be, no jobs, nothing to do and isolation causes substance abuse and crime. Sounds like most small towns in Canada and the U.S. that have these same types of issues?
Im black, and lived in an all white small town called Devon just about 30 minutes outside Edmonton. It was low key my favourite town I’ve lived in. Everyone was friendly, they didn’t care that my family was the only Black family. They treated us like equals. Not to be racist or anything, but from experience, all white towns in Alberta tend to be super safe and have friendly people.
Come to Toronto where it is reverse, and I don't feel safe
Yeah black people are not really the problem in small towns in Canada. I won't say what it is but you can guess.
I'm a photographer who spends a lot of time on the road around Alberta and meeting lots of people. I've talked with many peoples of color and none have complaints of racism. Our discussions get pretty deep including the accountability aspect of how society perceives us regardless of color. On the other hand, when I talk to fellow whiteys and mention accountability for some problems faced by some peoples of color, their immediate response is that I'm a racist. Racism has become a tool of the left they use to empower themselves with fake virtues when those very actions paint them as the true race baiters.
In Western Canada,"Safe" generally means living in at least 100km radius from a Reserve.
@user-sy3wp9cy8d
Cities where never considered safe.
It was common knowledge in the early 20th century.
Rural living is called "the easy life" for a good reason.
I grew up in a small town in Canada, and while my town was very safe, it seems like the cold and darkness does something to people. I swear the further north you go, the worse the issues get.
Lack of sun, grow some plants like tomatoes, give some 3 hours of sun others 6 hours others 10 hours a day and see how much bigger the ones with more sun get while the ones with 3 hours sun hardly develop, vitamin D2 etc. Shalom
@BossPresident with that lack of sun there's also 8 months of cold weather so good luck with that, tell me how to grow tomatoes in permafrost
@@John_Conner_ The point was we need sun, like plants, and without sun, just like plants, we don’t do as well.
Get some sun, and you won’t be so sour and salty.
Cheers buddy 🍻
I grew up in a small town in northern Ontario and I have a lot of relatives in Sudbury and surrounding areas and not once have any of them complain of bad stuff happening to to them. If DONT KNOW THE FACTS OR THE TRUTH STOP SPREADING RUMORS!!!
@@marykatherine9098 I mean, just because your town is safe doesn’t mean that there aren’t problems in other small towns in Canada. You’re making a purely anecdotal argument for a country with thousands of small towns spread over a massive territory.
Note that the issues people have with the cold and darkness are well documented not just in Canada, but in other northern countries.
As someone who lives in Williams Lake and has been kidnapped at gunpoint, I would say this is pretty accurate
Holy shit, I'm SO sorry that happened to you. I hope you're healing and moving forward ❤
Glad you are okay now. That must have been horrifying.
I’ve seen recent ads on TV trying to promote WL as a good quality of life with lots of “outdoors activities” in a scenic environment. Now that I know the truth, no thanks!
I just passed through last month thought it was a gorgeous place had no idea things were so bad
Toronto London and Vancouver have hundreds of murders per year these places have like 3
My best friend moved to Thompson this summer to work in the mine, I thought I might never see him again. He was back home in the Maritimes in only *three days.* Thompson was an absolute nightmare.
@@brodyallard9011 yup. ttown is crazy. never liked walking alone there.
I lived there a year and a half, and that was enough for me.
The reserves ship all their worst troublemakers to Thompson in the summer, but Thompson isn't legally allowed to ship them anywhere else because it would be "racist", so Thompson turns into a violence-ridden shithole for the 4 months without snow.
He never found the right squaw
Yes it's bad there just left a job site where they tried to blow up the foreman's truck because he fired the locals for not coming to work lol
0_0 TIL Canada has an oklahoma spelled thompson
Grew up in Selkirk and also lived in Thompson. This is not surprising!!
We don’t call it “Sel-crack, Methatoba” for no reason!! 🙈
the reason is that you're childish lol
Manitoba is barf
@@GetIntoYourLife so's your mom
Thompson is hands down one of the worst places in Manitoba.
Moose Lake is pretty rough too, used to live there for about 3 years and I’d never go back.
Selkirk born and bred... and I got outta there years ago. Redneck-ville and a definite south vs north end vibe big-time.
Some common denominators of your top 10 that you failed to mention.
They are all policed by RCMP.
They all have a large indigenous population in the area, some are offenders but many are victims as well.
Many are centres of high paying but temporary work like forestry, mining, pipelines that attract transient workers without roots in the community. Some may be offenders but many are also victims of crime.
Indigenous and transient populations also attract a high number of alcohol and drug related crimes.
Yup, the 3 Manitoba towns listed here all have very high (and rapidly growing) aboriginal populations. They are essentially just new reserves now.
The comment being policed by RCMP, the RCMP are very understaffed and overworked, not to mention burnout for the members that actually do work. Couple that with the catch and release policies of repeat criminals, it’s a recipe ripe for disaster.
@@simonouellette8608 Nothing against the individual members but their training has never been geared to urban policing and the upper ranks have been politicized in a way that never should have happened.
"They all have a large indigenous population in the area, some are offenders but many are victims as well. Spot on as we have experienced this very issue also.
Woliwon! its like there is a rcmp target on our back, I wonder why 😅
I grew up in a small town of 1,900 people in Canada, and the crime rate was almost non existant. We used to say that if someone took a crap at one end of town, everyone at the other end knew before the toilet was flushed LOL. We had 4 police officers and everyone knew everyone.
High crime is also to do with repeat offenders and the revolving door arrest and release protocol. The same persons doing most of the criminal offences in small towns.
Yup 100%
You're drinking Peter Peckerhead's Kool-Aid and it's making you stupid. Post ANY STUDY that ties our crime rates to our parole system.
Good point . That's also true in Thunder Bay, my town. Supposed to be 'crime capital of Canada' lol
Thank Trudeau and his NDP cabal!!
@@billtozerrealtor7331 The laws, the rules around bail and the rules around parole have not changed in any significant fashion under the current Liberal government. They are the same as they were under the Harper government. You're being played because you aren't very bright.
I'm from that area and I definitely would never move back. I left when I was in my teens and it is very sad when the reserves have crooks that are supposed to be their for the people but they aren't. It sickening to see how this generation is. I taught my children (now adults) to finish school get a degree and work. To this day they never want to go visit at my reservation. I don't blame them nothing there. We don't receive any type of money and we are doing fine. Except the fact that we are being treated poorly in the city even though we have our own home and work everyone thinks that we get free money and it's totally the opposite we work and pay taxes like everyone else. I keep myself humble and I definitely am a person who sees most chief and council steal from their own people. Nothing is going to get any better unless they start trying to cleaning up the reservations.
And just like you and you family, the change has to come from within. You made the change. You shared that change with your children and now they will spread that change. The same needed to happen in certain locations, but that conviction isn't there with too many people. They sadly don't change.
It would do some well to EDUCATE themselves. 1st off, on average each Native American receives 5 dollars A YEAR from the Canadian government. 2nd, Unless they have a job ON THE RESERVE (of which there aren't many) they pay income taxes the same as everyone else. 3rd Those Native funds held by the government earn interest which is used by the rest of Canada as well. Those are just some FACTS most Canadians haven't bothered to learn!!!!!
All dirty natives. Get a grip
And now tell us about the box you check on our income tax and it exempts sooooo many benefits and not expected to pay.
@@vanadians3819you said Native American? Was that a typo?
I worked in thompson couple years back and all i can say is its a totally different world out there. People lining up in liquor stores in the early mornings, mouthwash and alcohol is behind locked shelves in pharmacies. Never seen anything like that
i was there when i was in my teens, visiting my mom and my siblings... in one summer both my brothers ended up in the hospital from getting jumped for no reason, my moms house was broken into 3 times, her car was broken into once... ill never forget how shitty that place is. why they are all still there i will never understand. that was in the 90s, from what they tell me it hasnt changed much
Sooooo...like Prince George then, where it's illegal to sell mouthwash in anything larger than a 100ml container.
My classmate grew up there and he was one of the best students I’ve ever meet. And wow, the stories he would tell us 😅
@@maximuslongrod6361 You was there in your teens? Wtf...explanation is that? And where do you have been before?
@@brianbenoit6883 mouthwash? What is that ? Toothpaste with water ?
I'm an Ontarian living in Manitoba for 20 years. They call Selkirk, Sell Crack. Everyone in Manitoba drives drunk.
That seems exceedingly dangerous! Be safe!
How about the top 10 safest small towns in Canada- it would be interesting to compare the similarities and differences
Demographics and economics.
When we were kids in The Pas, Manitoba, the only time we were safe to walk around town was when Hell's Angels would come to town every summer to sell drugs. We didn't do drugs but their competitors, Indian Posse raised a lot of hell for us. Tons of drinking, homelessness, random acts of violence, and the cops seem to do absolutely nothing but stop drunk drivers and speeders. It's basically Thompson but crimes usually go unreported because it's a waste of time and you yourself might get grief from the RCMP. They're absurdly corrupt and lazy.
Canada has a love affair with the RCMP (Mounties) based on the 1940's-1950's stories and legends of a Hollywood movie industry thousands of miles away in a foreign country (Hollywood USA). To criticize the "mounties" is "UN-CANADIAN" because this dumb and patriotically NAIVE country has few other sources of national pride and prestige, and the "mainstream" news-media puts the "mounties" in a good light ALL THE TIME in return for cooperation from them in crime reporting.
Seems to be the trend with the list, majority policing is by RCMP
If we want to reduce the crime rate in the small towns of western Canada we probably need to reduce the rate of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder among the indigenous population. That will require a change of lifestyles in the indigenous community.
You've just offended feminists and indigenous activists lol
@@frakismaximus3052 Maybe but it is the truth. FASD destroys lives and it is a huge problem in parts of Canada.
“Truth & Reconciliation” needs to include rehab and counselling for the entire family.
That's what the jab was for.
And include secondary schools on remote reserves vs stopping at grade 8, and only the wealthy motivated indigenous go to boarding schools for high school. ( ont.)
Funny every reference to "gangs" shows Hells Angels, which are basically Unicorns in the big picture. Indigenous gangs do virtually all the heavy lifting.
I mean
I know friends who have some distant affiliations to HAMC, and honestly... As long as you have no debts with them. And you don't cause any trouble or issues. They're more than likely to just leave you alone.
You start popping your mouth off saying you're with HAMC... Well that's when you have issues
Your right.
Ya, the Angels seem to carry all the blame I've noticed.
@@nene3857 theres no chapters in native communities that destroy themselves with substanc. Indian posse is the largest gang in Canada btw
To point out the obvious and the factual is racist
I do utility work for a big company(Not gonna name for my job security), went to a res by fort Mac called Janvier, the company we do telecoms for had sent over 4 sub contracted companies and they all left because of people there are too violent, the place was disgusting, every home dam near looked like a dump, crack heads everywhere, lady was tweaking out and ran infront of my work truck lol
We got sent in as no other company was willing to go finish the fibre optics installation for the res, our placer got a knife stuck up to him for his glasses
When I went there there were cars burning in the ditches, locals tailing me for half an hour, we had a lay down that was well hidden and the locals stole a bunch of our fibre optics cables thinking it was copper, returned it all bunched up and partly stripped 😂
They had broken into our structures to pull our big mainline fibre out and try to strip it infront of the police for copper, the cops asked them what they're doing and they simply replied "Looking for copper to sell" no copper in fibre optics lines lol
We had to be escorted everywhere with people to watch our backs and protect us just so we can work, place was an absolute nightmare
That is so sad how desperate some people are. Glad you made it out safely with your crew. That sounds like a nightmare.
@@AJMSTUDIOSvideo ---- Ft Mac has existed since the early 1960s. In all that time these "aboriginals" could not train, educate or commit to good jobs in the huge oil industry there.
My grandfather's 101 years old, he's lived in the same house for seventy years in a small town no bigger than a thousand people at most, never having to so much as lock his door. Then about ten years ago something started to change, all the drug addicts, criminals and drug addicted criminals from the small to mid size cities seemed to all come to the realization that these small communities were at best case, a half hour from police intervention. Now the disabled bodies worry about being beaten and robbed and the able bodied worry about ending up in court and the national news for defending their homes. This all started right around the same time as a certain somebody took office in Ottawa, and I don't believe in coincidence.
Feeling sad for your grandfather.
@@margaretr5701 he's made it 101 years, it's just a shame he has to lock his door now and live in fear.
All because of Trudope and his liberalism henchmen in the parliament!
@@dyloniusofsparta 101😊 Please send my best wishes to your grandfather. Also my understanding on the sad changes he's seen in his lifetime. It's true, we all have to be more careful now, life isn't as relaxed when having to constantly monitor our safety.
Oh for God sakes. Before you accuse someone check the facts.
All these places are in western Canada the wild west. I still find Canada to be a very safe place after travelling the country coast to coast to coast. Alcohol and drugs cause problems in small towns when people are bored.
Living in Toronto for 26 years is already a great boredom experience for me, so imagine the real ultimate boredom people face in those wild west small towns!
When work dissapears,ppl lose site of themselves! To quote an old saying: Idle hands are the devils playground!
A lot of our work has gone to Asia,where ppl can live on peanut wages,Europe was no better back in the mid 90's.
In Germany, you stood in a food line!
Here,our children have not read the Bible in school,so don't have a moral standard to live by! Or attend church,to know Who God is! And right from wrong!
Our society has become monetary based,without money,ppl will do things they normally wouldn't, like steal food,or get drunk!
Since the Greyhound bus lines went out of business, I hear on the net,vehicle theft us on the rise out in the prairies!
A lot of young ppl were asked if they voted 30 yrs ago,the response was,why bother!
And as for church,if they aren't taught,just because you can't see,God and Angels,doesn't mean they're not there,as well as the devil!
The prairies have lost the family farm,no work,so all must find work elsewhere!...but where if it's all gone to Asia, whats left?
A lot of baby boomers left the farms 50 years ago,and moved to the big city! For jobs!
Also,the computer destroys a lot of jobs,but also creates some!,less then more!
Oddly as courts were told to quit prosecuting a certain minority because it was racist, crimes climbed. Strange that all the cities in BC’s wild west have the same thing in common.
A lot of small towns have had an influx of native people fleeing the reserves, but then struggle to find their place in the small towns which may or may not have jobs. Add that to the fentanyl crisis which is aggravated by the Trudeau government's permissive policy of "safe injection sites" and handing out "safe" opioids to addicts, which they then sell so they can buy the dangerous ones laced with fentanyl, and that accounts for a LOT of the small town crime. Prince Albert for example is the closest small city to a TON of the native reserves in Sask, and so it's not surprising that property crime is so high there.
@@shahonchen6661it's not boring out in the west it's poverty and large populations of first nations.
I live in a small town (population 7,200) on Southern Vancouver Island. I'm exactly halfway between Victoria and Duncan. Crime in those two cities is awful. I'm so grateful their crime doesn't seem to be affecting us yet. Homelessness and drug addiction are the the main issues. Fortunately, rural farming communities are spared these problems.
I lived in Ladysmith for over 20 years, most of that time my house was never locked Even when I was away.
@raveneagleye2478
methinks you're exaggerating a teensy bit....
@@ForceFreeTrainergirl06 How so?
Yeah mill bay is a pretty good area - I live in Duncan and I've never feared for my safety yet, although I never go anywhere risky. I moved from Victoria which is way worse so I guess it doesnt seem as bad.
The population of Grand Prairie is clearly not 12k as the video says. I forgot to change the population on the template I made. Everything else is good though. :)
We even have a Costco here 😌
Also, it's Grande Prairie with an -e lol. People are always sensitive about that here. Don't want to be confused by the Texas Grand Prairie
@@cindyboer1145 Gotcha! Thank you! Cheer to all of you in Grande Prairie!
Terrace went from a very safe friendly place to a straight up open air mental asylum over the course of 2009 to today. Most people dont walk downtown now because of the amount of junkies.
Just move over the bridge to Thornhill, the worst you have to deal with are the drunks but they aren't really a nuisance, the homeless rarely travel over the bridge, I feel safe walking anywhere in Thornhill at night but that might just be me being 6ft 4 and 210 lbs
Use to live there in the early to mid eighties. Beautiful place, but noticed ALOT of homeless there. I heard Vancouver bused alot of them from there and dropped them off in small commenities all over B.C.
It’s sad. I have watched my small Canadian city of 40k people go from the safest, friendliest place you could imagine, to a meth-riddled hellhole with routine shootings and public machete attacks. All in the span of about 10 years.
public machete attacks? Canada? you must be joking.
We have had machete toting gangs in Calgary for over 30 years. Thanks Ottawa for your liberal immigration. The foreign gangs that have infiltrated our city and have open war-fare in mall parking lots has really escalated. And it's not because there aren't jobs and opportunities= it's because the liberals didn't vet the people they allowed into the country thoroughly, and let in criminals and gang members. They brought their way of life with them, and have just continued with it when they got here.
@@crayola3 usually in the large cities where these protected class of people "migrate" to is where you mostly see it
@@crayola3it happened two weeks ago and it was actually a machete and bear spray attack. Not kidding!
You choosing to become a drug addicted creep , nothing to do with Trudeau . You are responsible for your actions .
As a senior living in Canada all my life I can say the turning point in relation to crime was after the introduction of the "Young offenders act". It's long past time that we start to make our youth accountable for their actions IMO.
Truer words were never spoken
The Young Offenders Act was passed in 1982.
I dated a British law student doing his PhD at Uof T, he was specifically designing something called the Young Offenders Act. He returned to England after finishing it. You are right, so long ago. And what also changed is the loss of childhood and young teen innocence with the advent of computers. Thus the 12yr old girls playing barbie dolls are so long gone, it's absurd to think 15 yr olds can't be intentional criminals.
Oh goody my sister and her preacher husband moved to North Battleford Sask. They've stayed for 20 yrs because housing is cheap. SMH.
@@joywebster2678 We are witnessing the results that we all assumed. Folks have become more and more dependant on government services. Supporting single parents in the 80-90's to give the children a chance at life didn't go so well IMO. I'm not a religious person but believe in the family unit. The demise of proper housing in stable homes has had a lot to do with what brought us here. We have killed our youth with kindness. So much so they can't seem to look after themselves.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand all seem to share a similarity with rural crime being far more prevalent than urban crime.
Most small towns in the Western provinces of Canada are VERY SAFE. I have visited most and lived in quite a few. The ones in this video have issues with no jobs, too much booze /drugs or trouble with local "Injuns" and a little known fact about Quesnel and Williams Lake is the street bum-scum of Vancouver was deported there by the gov't for the Vancouver 1986 Worlds Fair, and hasn't left.
Times sure are changing here in Canada. Very sad to see indeed. I'm 59 years old and I've seen so many stats and yes it's increased substantially. Here where I live, was a very dangerous city but the city did a huge clean-up and although we still have crime, it's lowered. Have an awesome day everyone
I feel that!
You too 😊
My hometown in the Okanagan has changed so much in the last 20yrs that it makes me sad when I go home for a vacation.
Homeless camps and open drug use in the streets and way way way more crime. In the 90s we didn't have to lock any doors, garage or the house.
What is happening to our country =(
@@brando8086Don't you believe in multiculturalism??? Are you racist???
Unchecked illegal immigration + demented liberal policies = Canada today.
@@brando8086 Yeah and pushed them up to Prince George. Now our city is pull of druggies that came from down there.
I grew up in Thompson,Manitoba and I still have family there.One of the best decisions I made in life was moving away, it's just sad it took me 34 years to make that decision.I have many memories growing up in Princeton towers and living in Eastwood area, not all were good ones.
My cousins grew up there. My uncle was a bigshot geologist at INCO. I think my cousins were pretty sheltered away from it until they finally moved away. They don't talk about it but I can tell it was rough. We don't have alot of great options to live in Manitoba LOL. The stories I've from from ppl like urself. Long, dark winters, not much to do, limited police presence and ppl getting up to trouble.
I grew up there too, what a shit hole.
Indians
@@Upgraydez We stayed in Grey Wolf Bay houses when I was contracting for Major Drilling, that was the first time I tried crack. I did more drugs there then I did on my days off lol. I worked a 4 weeks on 2 weeks off schedule. We mainly worked at T-3 mine underground. I'm from Flin Flon, so it wasn't much different from besides being flat.
my dad used to live there, the week he moved out of his old place somebody was murdered on his old front lawn. the police also found a body in the forest behind his work, so now every time someone goes missing thats one of the first places that gets searched
I've lived in NB for a while now. It's definitely rough here but it's honestly still less sketchy than the slummy neighborhoods I lived in Edmonton as a young person. The worst I've had happen in NB is a broken car window (nothing stolen) over a decade ago and some bags of cans taken from my backyard of my old rental house over 6 years ago. A lot of the crime here has to do with gangs and drug trafficking or theft of unlocked vehicles. If you aren't involved with sleazy people, you'll likely be fine so long as you lock your stuff up and have security for your home.
NB and especially moncton area has been getting worse, but yeah still doesn't hold a candle to Saskatchewan.
I’m from Red Pheasant Sk grew up in North Battleford my youth years . Lots of positive stuff use to go on than but now a days little different. Aho
@@Stringbean1138 I didnt mean New Brunswick. NB for North Battleford, my bad.
@@johnpaskimin1897 All in all it ain't the worst place I can think of to live, I'd say crimes down a bit from 2019. There's certainly a lot of room for improvement though. Rising cost of living is making things more challenging for everyone.
@@Pompomeranian7 woops lol
The problem with all these small towns (atleast in manitoba) is that when somebody makes trouble on a reserve or their farm, they get exiled and sent to towns like portage la praire or Thompson. It sucks for the people who live there but the government keeps putting huge housing projects in the middle of the towns which is causing all the crime
You should address the "elephant in the room" and overlay a map of indigenous populations in these regions ...
Add in liquor sold per capita.
Exactly...🤦♂️
Sadly, yes. The aboriginals are having such a difficult time adapting to the modern world. Generation after generation is raised in poverty, violence, drugs and alcohol.
The Residential Schools got a horrible reputation, not because the concept was wrong, but because they were managed by very bad people who mistreated the native families and children.
The concept, to break the cycle of family poverty, abuse, violence and ignorance, was sound. Treat the children well, make sure they have good food, a great education and set them up for success. Keep them away from the bad influences who don’t want them to be successful.
Instead, what we have now is the indigenous people managing themselves and failing to break the cycle of generation after generation of lost souls. Violence, crime, drug and booze addiction is passed on from generation to generation in an endless cycle of failure. It’s very sad.
I was just trying to post this, when I read yours. So true.
Look at the gangs and their names ... you'll possibly recognize the issue
Great production value as always! I still can't believe you don't have more subscribers.
Thank you so much! I am not sure what else to do to draw in more people other than keep trying. :D
Red deer should have got an honorable mention for JUST barely being above 100k population threshold.
Red Deer did make the list in my "big cities" video for having just over 100k. It was my first video and not presented as cleanly as this.
You could make a whole video on that city alone
Recently Canada released updated CSI scores and I have compiled every city into a Google Sheets document with their CSI scores -- I thought I should share some of my findings as they are pretty interesting
- Since 2019, Thompson has overtook North Battleford for the total CSI Score, prob thus the reason why a 11 months ago I found Thompson had a significantly higher total crime rate; because since 2019 North Battleford has gone down in crime, becoming pretty similar to Wetaskiwin in crime
- MacLean's did not include Fort McMurray, as whilst Fort McMurray is a city, it has jurisdiction over the nearby oil sands as the municipality of Wood Buffalo -- despite this, over 95% of Wood Buffalo residents live in Fort McMurray, so it is unfair to disclude it
- On the same note as the most recent note, Fort McMurray would've been the worst city for crime in this list, as it had a CSI score of 610.50 in 2019. Currently it is the 2nd worst behind Thompson and ahead of North Battleford. Fort McMurray is so bad for crime that in 2011, Vice (the news organization) made a documentary just about how bad crime, pollution and poverty are in Fort McMurray
- For some reason, MacLean's did not include any of the cities from the territories -- if included, Yellowknife would've made the list, having a CSI score of 236.68 in 2019. Currently it sits as the 7th worst
- Since 2019: Selkirk, Grande Prairie, Terrace, Williams Lake and Quesnel have seen among some of the highest crime decreases in the country, although Selkirk has spiked again as of the most recent year
- Since 2019: Penticton, Leduc, Timmins, Courtenay and New Glasgow have seen among some of the highest increases in the country
- Iqaluit, Nunavut only has around 7.5k people so it wouldn't count, but I felt it would be interesting as like a sidenote as it would be the worst for total CSI at 538.22 -- although it sits decently below Thompson for it's violent CSI score
If you are interested in seeing the up to date CSI ratings, I'd be more than happy to share as it took a decent bit of time -- as well I will include the territory cites (Yellowknife & Whitehorse), and include Fort McMurray
Nicely done! Some interesting changes for sure. I guess we better start working on a follow up video. :) Would love to see the document if you wish to share it.
...just found this. Very interesting 🤔. I live in Lac La Biche. Things aren't great here...
Don't know why you don't understand that as Trudeau takes away guns, crime goes up.
I live in lovely crime-free Prince Albert......hmmmm
what about Ontario ? or is this just on Cities/Towns policed by RMCP ?
Anytime we’d go up to PA for hockey tournaments the native teams would come to our hotels and slash our tires.
That's not good.
How do you know it's first nations teams.
*Lie. Stayed in PA (for hockey) many times. Never happened once. Majority of PA teams do not even have an abundance of indigenous players!
And Sask Indigenous players are underrated and underrepresented. Period.
@@rootofevil777 lmao the stands were always full of yelling drunks. I remember the one game somebody’s blitzed “uncle” got arrested. Crazy place for sure 🤷🏼♂️
In the 70’s, the PA Raiders were the best Tier 2 Hockey team in Canada for over 15 years. Their biggest competition were the Moose Jaw Canucks, all series went 7 games with the Raiders always winning.
As a Moose Jaw fan, we would travel in 2 fan buses to PA to watch our Canucks play The Raiders.
While the buses were parked, they were monitored by 6 RCMP officers in 3 cruisers, so that they would not be destroyed, or blown-up. When it came time to leave Prince Albert, our buses were escorted at times to at least 50 miles South by the same RCMP.
Because there were over 60 of us Canuck fans, they did not try to mess with us at the PA arena, they knew better.
When the Raider fans came back to Moose Jaw, they were yelled at, but their lives and the bus safety were never at risk like our buses were in PA.
Fast forward now 45 years later. Moose Jaw is now called Meth Jaw, and violent crime, and property crime are through the roof. Moose Jaw has become a nightmare, and a dump, but Prince Albert continues to be one of the biggest shit-holes in the entire world..
I love the Firewatch OST in the background, Such a great touch
Small towns in Canada feel very much like the way bad neighborhoods in big cites like harlem or parts of detroit felt. As in nobody ever gets out. Because Canada is so spread out, the idea of leaving everything you know behind, even if everything you know sucks, can be impossible. So people stay and stagnate and get bitter and violent and it can compound so quickly
how about naming these small towns. I bet you never lived in one . I live in a very great small town and it is just fine and people who left for work always come back .
As a Canadian who is now 90 years old and moved, lived worked all over Canada, I say BS. People stay because they either want to stay or too lazy, dumb to move.
@@billfarley9167 or don't have the money to get out.
I grew up in a small town and can confirm we had a huge crime problem, I always said we were trying to get out of the shadow of big cities by being 10x worse.
Why do you think the crime rate is so high? Bad cops or lack of them? Unemployment ? Drugs? just curious
@@rcchristian2 Boredom.
It’s bc they’re 90%+ natives that live in these places
Saskatchewan has all the big city problems mixed with teh small town ones.
@@sherilynstarzko8116 said _"It’s bc they’re 90%+ natives that live in these places"_
I was curious to see if you were right but you are definitely wrong... most of these cities have white people as the majority...
Terrace BC
67% white
21% indigenous
2%asian
Grande Prairie
72% white
11% indigenous
7% asian
Selkirk Manitoba
57% white
35% indigenous
4% asian
Williams Lake BC
66% white
24% indigenous
4% asian
Prince Alberta Sask
44% indigenous
43% white
5% asian
Portage la Prairie
60% white
29% indigenous
3% asian
Quesnel BC
79% white
13% indigenous
3% asian
Thompson Manitoba
45% indigenous
39% white
9% asian
North Battleford
57% white
26% indigenous
8% asian
It's definitely not an indigenous issue. It's the white boys ... :P
Maybe we should look at religion :)
I was born and raised in North Battleford. Things were a lot different back then ('70s). It's sad to see what has happened but unfortunately you aren't allowed to talk about why that is so it isn't going to get better.
Wonder why you are not allowed to talk about certain things. Does it have to do with a certain community committing the bulk of the crime??
@@felixt1470 North battleford is like a bakery.🥧
@@felixt1470 you means the ones getting caught? Native people aren't committing the bulk of the crimes, it's just there is always a spotlight on us no matter what we do.
you guys just aren't "reconciling" enough with the locals
I for one welcome you to talk about it. Just do it in a way that is respectful and that creates respectful dialogue. Political correctness only means, in this case, not talking about First Nations people in blaming, pejorative ways. It’s time for reconciliation. Let’s do it. Let’s stop the madness. Talk, talk, talk.
I lived in prince albert sk for a few years working as a 911 Dispatcher. It was a very interesting time in my life that has admittedly left me a bit jaded and paranoid. I no longer live there, I chose to settle to a very small and safe farming community about an hour away. The crime in PA doesn't have much to do with the people that live there. Prince albert is the gateway to the north, a very transient community. Members of northern communities poor into prince albert constantly with nothing to do and they wreak havoc on the citizens there. There is a lot of gang activity as well. If you live in PA you pretty much either work in the medical field or you work at a jail. The provinces 2 federal prisons are in PA. So the city attracts a lot of prison visitors from all over the province and attract many people from the north requiring medical attention. They get themselves here often with a few of their family members and they just sort of don't leave. They hang around the city with no jobs and victimize people and properties. Glad I don't live or work there anymore.
I've been to almost every place in this video because of the work I do (construction) and I've actually never had anything happen to me. A farmer in North Battleford that we did some work for had been robbed on more than one occasion though and one of my co workers was in a convenience store in Falher Alberta as it was getting robbed. That one turned out to be some teens with a plastic gun 😂
Small communities used to be great places to live, crime was almost non existent, there were dances, card parties, potlucks and church was central.
So it must be the loss of the church that is causing all this right? I mean not the influx of drugs that the locals are oh so happy to use.
@@useyournoodle100 you couldn't have used your noodle for this take
Honestly, the same can be said for larger comminities, even cities. Our low crime in major cities were once the envy of the Americas. Sigh. Not because of church (but I do understand it was once central), but because of citizens visions of what is acceptable behaviour, it has changed dramatically. I can’t help but think Hollywood, with their violence, anger, sexual assaults etc, make these things more appealing to people now vs then
The naysayers here want to believe that it’s not the lack of church attendance, but people’s desire for drugs causing all the problems. Most people start taking drugs in their youth, when they are perhaps bored, or come from unhappy homes. When I was a teen drugs were not an option for me because I was very involved in a church youth group, sports, theatre, etc., but also because I was privileged to be in a lower to middle income, God honouring family (not a perfect family). No doubt poverty, abuse, and substance abuse in adults are big reasons their children get into drugs and crime. I believe that being part of something wholesome, like church, can make a huge difference in people’s lives, and I’ve seen people’s lives changed by it. The same can be said for being involved in community service, it doesn’t have to be a church, but giving your life over to something bigger than yourself.
@@charlenerathgeb8217 Well, any decent church would teach all of their congregation, right down to the youngest kids, that drug abuse is a great sin in God's eyes, not to mention all the other crimes which the Ten Commandments specifically prohibit. So just draw the lines from despising the words of God to crime ridden cities and towns. It doesn't take a genius. 🤷♂
I live in a town just an hour outside of North Battleford, and the crime can almost be felt in our small town still. Our police suspect that people from that place just drive out here, and then set out to steal a vehicle, place it in a field and then light it on fire. Things are worse in the city. You always keep your windows up, so people don't come and start trouble. Never roll your windows down in North Battleford to talk to anyone. Youth violence is a huge issue, also.
I use to work in SK where I traveled occasionally, and visited many small towns.
And 100% that is true.
I was even told not to keep your dog outside as it might get stolen
Nice Firewatch music. I’m a fan of the game. Very informative thank you
I was born and raised in Thompson. And i love how all of the pictures of it were of the East end of town which is the bad end. The homeless population is so high because alot of homeless people from outlying nearby reserves make their way to Thompson and dont leave.
Why don't they stay on their bloody reserves, grow some balls, and try to make something decent out of their lives? No motivation or ambition, why are those people like that?
My family moved to Prince Albert in 1970 at that time it was a very nice and clean city. I moved away in 1994 and my kids grew up in a small community.... all of my sons live in small communities now as adults.
whats your point u got scared back in 1994 are u telling everybody your amedia bootlicker are u telling everybody your easy to scare wih fear mongering . or are u just saying shit for no reason
It’s shocking to hear that Thompson, Manitoba is, per capita, the most violent city in North America given the crime rate in many parts of Mexico.
Yeah, that has to be BS. I don't believe it if he was leaving mexico out.
Crime statistics only include reported crime.
@@HondoTrailside in Mexico I imagine the crime is organized with certain groups on top that try to keep order. Northern Canada is just a lot of addicts with no jobs which will lead to chaotic random crime.
Indians
This is for Canada only
I grew up in a small Canadian town and we too had crime almost daily... Once I realized there was a high score, I've gone above and beyond to make sure that crime never sleeps
May the worst town win. Good luck
Atta boy, go get him batman
Just on another note I live near wetaskiwin and I lived in nb and I lost alot of friends over the years, i changed in my 20s i saw who was all involved and it doesn't start in those cities it starts on the reserves who are pushing it through those cities
I live in Wetaskiwin. Had 2 vehicles stolen. Both times by white guys. Basically the folks from the reservation keep getting busted for public intoxication and/or panhandling. The white folks are the ones who commit the actual crimes.
Quesnel is my hometown! It certainly wasn't perfect when I was growing up, but the homelessness and crime rates have skyrocketed in recent years. So sad to it going downhill :(
I lived in Thompson for over 20 years, the citizens have their own set of rules that must be followed or you are guaranteed to get violently assaulted by a group of people, two main rules, don't walk anywhere after 7pm (even in a small group is not safe) and avoid the T.I at all costs (unless you're a regular). the population balloons every summer due to the high amount of reserves around it, people migrate to the city to live homeless (even though they have homes in their respective towns) and drink. then in the winter, everyone goes home because its too cold (-40 average in Jan / Feb) or they die in an ATM lobby (True Story). Leaving that city was the best feeling ever!
What is T.I.?
@@garyfrancis6193 Thompson Inn. Aboriginals cause 99% of the problem
Thompson Inn hotel and bar.
Cap
lol jk born and raised and come on the T.I can be fun 😂 and safe!! It’s located right next to the cop station after all 😂😂
Notice how there are no entries from Eastern Canada? Why? Because the common denominator in all of these cities is indigenous crime. Each and every city/town listed has significant indigenous populations and you barely note this except in the portion on Thompson. Indigenous crime stats are a repudiation of centuries of the same failed approach of managing aboriginal affairs by Ottawa. Simply throwing money at band councils and expecting nothing in the way of progress in education and development. It is sad.
I live in Dauphin, and honestly I’m surprised things aren’t worse here. We’re kind of the odd one out considering our circumstance
The problem with crime statistics is what does not get reported does not get recorded. I used to live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and worked as a security guard in a large shopping mall for 11 years. The amount of shoplifting there was insane. There was one woman who worked there who also has worked retail all across Canada because her husband got moved around because he was military and she said she had never seen anything like the level of retail theft anywhere else. Thing is most of it never got reported. It was a business decision; just write off the losses because the store would have to pay to send their employee to court as a witness and it wasn't worth it. They also did not want the liability of employees making the wrong call leading to getting sued for false arrest or possibly getting assaulted by the thief. There were also lots of assaults that did not get reported. Often both parties involved were just engaged in an ongoing dispute which often involved illegal activities so there was no way they wanted the police involved. I knew of a case of a kid who was acting tough and got a gun stuck in his mouth and had the facts of life explained to him. He said nothing for fear of retaliation. There was a "code of silence" involved....don't be a rat. If all these crimes were properly counted I am sure Dartmouth, Nova Scotia would definitely be in the top 10 for sure.
The problem is that in the top 10 list there is also a large amount of crime that does not get reported. So if you think Dartmouth is bad because of unreported crime imagine the unreported crime in in the top 10. Might make you very happy to have lived in Dartmouth. There is a reason why eastern Canada and the maritimes did not make this list.
I have lived in several other places in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and they were far better places to live than Dartmouth. In those other places I never felt the need to watch my back like I did in Dartmouth. It's actually rational to be slightly paranoid there. Dartmouth is it's own universe.@@psychette8846
Angus Ontario cops dont even attend incidents never mind report 😂
Right! Include Moncton on that list too, in the past 5 years this place went from chill to guns, stabbing, kidnapping, human trafficking and so much more... and I ain't mentioning my home town of a few 1000 people. Because I might have to say they all are in organized crime or worse. I lived in a village where the cops don't go, for anything. It's just the way we live over there.
@@erinalexandra9096 No ones shows up in Dartmouth either. we arent talking about Halifax area either, no we are talking about the city of Dartmouth. If you are a hockey fan: were Sydney Crosby's from. and if you go in Moncton, New Brunswick, is where an ahole killed three cops, so imagine what's not reported. As I remember there is just a handful of cop killing in Canada. Moncton is popular for that now...
Dartmouth is worse even without killing cops, its nasty.
The thing about the crime rates in the smaller towns is that the rates don't take into account people from the outlying areas that come into the town, commit some type of crime - which then gets added to that towns crime statistics, then go home to the outlying area. The rates would be different if the people in the surrounding areas were accounted for in the crime statistics for the towns themselves.
Very well said! Crime from the cities has moved to smaller communities b/c the RCMP would rather be doing shooting targets in the garbage dump then patrolling the streets. Look at the RCMP in small towns in BC. In Sparwood, BC the dispatch doesnot take the calls and tells the callers to F...O...
I currently live in Lloydminster and just a few days ago somebody died in their home, my friends were filming the situation. There’s different spots around the city of where the crime is, so I used to live around the rich neighborhood where nothing really happens, but now I live more around downtown where there’s A LOT of fires and drugs. Like sometimes me and my family drive past a few homes and my dad will just tell us about how someone was keeping illegal drugs in their basement. But I was pretty shocked that we were 11th though, like damn😭
Always and will always love that place (Grande Prairie) . But I'll never forget waking up at 12 years old to go to school, and having to walk past the rotary house thing that they have there, (basically tent city where the homeless get pushed into to keep them out of the way of the rich oil people). One morning in particular I remember seeing a young woman (maybe 20-25) in the freezing -35 degree windchill in nothing more than a tank top being arrested, a needle dug into her arm above the cuff. My mom said nothing, just told me and my brother to look away. I Just remember thinking how cold she must be. Not to mention the hundred others lined up in tents (overflow from the shelter) behind her.
As an Indian I can see the pattern here of these towns. I've been to them all as a rodeo clown and I tell you what this is an Indian problem.
Dated a native dude and came to the conclusion I was dealing with someone operating from a reptilian brain. No brake when it comes to controlling the temper.
Well hey at least you're taking bigger steps to fix things then they are. First step is realizing there's a pattern/problem. Most whites and natives are not willing to discuss it. And that just makes things impossible to solve. Salish coast is beautiful, hope life is going well for you there
An Indian problem ? Like they are the problem ?
@melaniejarrett2953 we have a problem where white folk tell us we are all being victimized and that when things don't go our way it becasue of racism. Its a big fat lie and It makes for a bunch of lazy trouble makers with a chip on the shoulder.. I know this to be evident.
Government agents in the aboriginal communities are responsible for the majority of the “Indian problem.” I have had talks with medicine women.
In Prince Albert the drug use here is pretty bad. In any shopping area theres a lot of homeless people begging for money and also passed out whereever they can sit.
As a kid it wasn't this bad but when the government decided to stop allocating welfare benefits to rent for drug users the homeless situation shot through the roof.
Thanks Scott Moe
People have told me that Nanaimo is pretty bad nowadays. Drug addiction is rampant, People get robbed at knifepoint all the time. The street people call Nanaimo ' The City With No Pity ".
Drug abuse is everywhere in canasiastan, every small town city n big city is rampant, drs caused the drug problem in the early 90s n now they legalized weed to wash the drs hands if it! Not there problem anymore?! N trudumb made the problems worse by being who he is!
PA has been a craphole for 40 years. High indigenous population is a major contributor.
Im from PA too and you’re absolutely right
Can't even wear red or black in p aids lol
I grew up walking distance from the water tower in North Battleford and I’m baffled how we were able to get #1. I know it’s bad, but is it really THAT bad?
Everyone always thinks their home town is the worst, thank you for confirming my suspicions about mine 😂
Yea it is, NB prolly the asshole of Saskatchewan
Keep in mind these are 2020 stats! I shudder to think what the stats are now, 2023 on it's way out. :(
Heard of basically all these towns when I was in the military, the amount of people who join just to get out of there is crazy. Meanwhile there'd be like 1 in 50 who are from a bigger city
You know what all these have in common? Being near Reserves, First Nations, etc. and lack of funding/personnel to respond to the drugs, etc
every place in Canada is near a reserve, duh. I am presently in Kamloops which is surrounded by Reservations, some of them quite large and we are not on this list! Expand your thinking, go beyond race.
Kamloops isn't a small town, also Kamloops has a higher crime rate than surrey. Its clearly the indigenous communities
@@kirkscollon8992 136 reservations in BC alone, clearly not Indigenous communities or 136 towns and cities would be on the list. Just keep making it up as you go along, it's easier than learning.
@@rubyjames3105what does kamloops have to do with small towns.
I live in an arm pit right outside of Edmonton. I used to live in the city and I never had my car broken into. While being in Devon, about 20 mins outside of Edmonton, my car has been broken into at least 3 times. My brother has had his car broken into at least two or three times. I know numerous people who've had their gas tanks drilled into. The town has a population of 2,000. Even though it's a short jaunt to the city, unless you have a car, there's no way to get there. I'm bored to death living here. I can't imagine what it's like being 16.
I will say, it usually depends on where you live in a town. I grew up in Wetaskiwin, we have a pretty bad reservation 10 minutes to the south. The north end of town was amazing. Super chill, never felt unsafe walking at night. We lived in the south end for a whole three months and that was enough to show us we NEVER wanted to live there again.
I have visited Prince Albert a few times since my girlfriend is from there. A couple years ago she was at a party, a gang member showed up partway through and stabbed and killed one of the kids there. Scary stuff man.
Damn I knew Williams lake was gonna be on here😂💀
I knew my city, which is Lethbridge, made that list! The crime here over the last 20 years has skyrocketed really badly
Methbridge lmao
@hyperjump1169 yup! We should nickname it Crackbridge as well. It is both the meth and crackheads that are breaking the law here.
Make more of dark info vids like this for Canada based on statistics and news articles. Good work.
Thank you!
I live in Saskatchewan in a weird stretch that’s fairly isolated. This province has the worst crime rate in the country. That being said the crime in my town is bad. It’s made up of 600 people, used to have 800 people yet the town is dying. The weirdest thing for a while is someone was going around setting houses on fire in an attempt to kill people, three houses were started on fire on purpose. My brother was a volunteer firefighter at that time and his first call someone died. He attended all of these calls.
We also have an issue, since we live in a stretch of small towns, where people outside the area will steal vehicles and hit up the banks and stores here. This happened 3 weeks ago, someone stole a vehicle in the next town over, robbed our gas station, robbed our bank, slashed our cops tires, stole another vehicle and went to the next town. Not even a day after that, another person, this time a kid that lived in town, failed to steal a vehicle because he didn’t know how to drive a standard, then he tried to fight our cop. Did not end well for him lmao. This happens once every few months.
We even have church burnings, meth labs, sometimes in churches and related to said church burnings, murders and just random ass shenanigans. A lot of the non violent crimes are due to poverty in the area. When you’re isolated winters are hard. No nearby affordable grocery stores, no good jobs, no nearby hospital, bad infrastructure, all of that brings out the worst in people. As for the murders and church burnings, that varies case by case.
If we had basic facilities such as a hospital, grocery store that sells more than bread and cheese and proper support for those with financial issues or mental health issues there wouldn’t be that much crime. However, no one cares enough to solve the problem.
You can pretty much blame natives for most of the small city crime issues. I know that's not politically correct, but it's true. Their communities have massive problems with drug abuse and crime. You'll notice that most those small cities you listed have a disproportionately large number of natives in them. For example North Battleford is 25% native, Prince Albert is 45% native, Williams Lake is 15%, Selkirk is 35%, Thompson is 45% etc. while in any of our largest cities they make up no more than 1-2% of the population (though in Edmonton they're about 5%, and surprise surprise, Edmonton has much higher crime rates than Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal etc.).
It's very similar to blacks in America, where you find a direct, linear correlation between the percentage of the population that's black and crime rates. Except in America, they mostly congregate in the inner cities rather than in small rural towns.
And obviously it's important to note that this isn't attack on those groups. But these things need to be brought to people's attention so that we can actually address the problems instead of trying to turn a blind eye and pretend nothing is happening, or pretend that it's completely random and that nothing can be done about it. Millions of people are suffering in these communities in the name of political correctness, and in the name of sparing feelings. I for one don't care about hurting people's feelings by stating the objective truth, and neither should anyone else. Swallow the pill and fix the damn problem.
Surprised I had to scroll down to see if anyone else caught the connection.
Most of the victims are natives too. The Canadian colonial government did everything they could go break their families and communities well into the twentieth century. This is the result the government set out for.
It's a hell of a lot higher % of natives in Winnipeg . We also have very high crime rates and especially violent crime . Last year was exceptionally bad , with 53 homicides for a population of around 800,000 . I don't have the numbers, but it seems to me that 75% of murders involve aboriginal people . Most of the violent crime occurs in a relatively small area . But the entire downtown is dangerous in my opinion . Last year a man was murdered in our main Library by a couple of youthful azzholes . The main Library is across the street from our Main Police Station . There have even been assaults on off duty Police Officers, outside of the Cop Shop .
Wow canada the racist!!!
@@melodymurakami4114 Well if you were here , then you'd know it . I don't want to be a racist . Except that 80% of the people in prison in Manitoba are indigenous .
Much appreciated, but I am already depressed. No one wants to start a business in a drug / crime town so nothing will change until the leaders make the change. These are local problems and the Feds are only throwing away our money.
I'm from Quesnel and all of our issues are because of PG, Vancouver and the government. When Vancouver had the Olympics they thought it'd be a good idea to start just sending their homeless everywhere rather than dealing with it and since then Quesnel has been getting insane amounts of homeless people that are mentally ill and we don't have enough housing or help for them, they consistently rob our cars (if you live on the westside) and they even rob our stores, but things get worse when we talk about the cesspool of garbage called PG, those A holes cant keep their drug wars out of our town, we used to have a drug family making sure that drugs came in but that the town still stayed nice and safe but since they got arrested all the gangs from PG have started having their wars here because they want their town to be nice. lastly the government gives us no money to fix crap, our cops aren't allowed to arrest anyone for crimes, we legally cant defend our homes without getting sued by the intruder and since all these harsh drugs have been decriminalized bylaw cant even do anything about the people smoking crack in the center of downtown. I used to be able to walk downtown as a kid and there would be some normal homeless and stuff but now its only sketchy homeless people who look like their gonna pass out, are passed out, or are gonna attack you. like there used to be just nick and like a few other homeless but now we got like $5 or $10 (Jennifer), there's this old lady who always says she had the same car as me and then asks me for money or smokes but I'm like we have mental health and addictions go there to get help. my town is safe and beautiful we just get a bad wrap statistically cause all of the real bad areas lie about their crap were just honest that other towns are fighting their wars in ours so we essentially just get punished and shunned for asking for a bit of help.
Exactly, I live in Terrace and so they assume because of LNG that the homeless will find opportunity, wrong lol
Yep. Vancouver dropped off a shot load of homeless people all down the Fraser valley too just before the Olympics (Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Hope, Maple Ridge) - active addicts with $5000 in their hand and a one way ticket to these places for them to “find jobs.” Now these towns are full of Vancouver problems when they were previously free of these people before the Olympics. No resources for these people with their issues left them on our streets and the crime rate rose exponentially too.
Haha I know Nick, I see him all the time walking around.
Thank you for defending your community. This guy is just pissing on Western Canada.
I grew up in Pg. Did you notice that lot of those cities with high crime rate are the ones around pg
I have family in North Battleford and have been there lots. What is said here is bang on!
Born and raised in wetaskiwin and I can confirm that it can get crazy there especially at night never hang around the gas stations or the liquor stores at night
couple years ago my friend lost her cousin over nothing he wasn’t gang affiliated but got stabbed anyways outside a gas station
Very sorry to hear that about your friend's cousin. Really too bad what is happening to the town.
You may say "Take full advantage of the knowledge" instead of "because nobody watches" but alright friend. I'll give a couple of your video's a shot. I like how you've covered your bases, and did your homework; and then some. Cheers
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy the other stuff I make. :) I try really hard! Have a good day.
Wetaskiwin resident here ✋🏻 had my car stolen right out of my garage in the morning before work. I got it back like an hour and a bit later b/c I posted on Facebook that if anyone sees my car to call the cops. Found my car at the local Esso gas station and like 7 cop cars surrounding it 😄
Winkler Manitoba's police chief in a city of 13,000 recently announced cancellation of their annual bike auction as there were rarely any bikes stolen
I was born at Winkler hospital 1958. ( Dr Wiebe)
One of my old friends was a cop in Red Deer and was offered a deal that if he transferred to Grand Prairie for a certain amount of years he could pick any where he wanted to go to afterwards to serve for the rest of his carrier. So he packed his family and transferred. That was in 2017 he moved there.
As somebody from wetaskiwin crime here has increased significantly since this video our csi last year was 367 almost 100 more than 2 years ago it’s getting out of hand here with homeless and gang members
Plus our neighbouring reserves are facing insane gang violence daily shootings stabbings and murders drugs are really prevalent in these communities too, very sad to see. Our neighbour Maskwacis’ csi shot up to 756, its heading into the direction it once was heading away from back in 2008 when it had a csi of 2819 and a violent crime severity index of 4929 which is insane
It's unfortunate, since Wetaskiwin's not that bad a place to live, or at least, was decent for the 8 years I lived there before moving away 9 years ago. Do most the stolen cars still end up getting found on fire on the reserve, or did the Maskwacis cleanup efforts cut down on that?
Ya: n they’re the ones crying n protesting “ save our land” they’re the ones trying to stop the pipelines, but burn down vehicles n use tires as wood for their campfire party’s !!
@@FailedBardfrom what I’ve seen and heard most stolen cars are stolen by people that live in the county or don’t live in wetaskiwin at all kind of like a smash grab because Highway 2A and Highway 13 go through it so theres a lot of traffic and opportunity for car thieves
According to stats Canada, indigenous people commit 7 times more crimes than non indigenous people. There’s more indigenous people out west and north, which explains the higher crime rates.
Particularly in the towns listed.
when you think about it, due to there being a higher crime in Northern/Western Canada, it'd prob make more sense to say that indigenous commit 7x more crime BECAUSE they live in shitty areas of the country, and not that those areas are shitty because of them. If let's say a white working class person was put in let's say Iqaluit I'm pretty sure they'd have to commit to crime just to survive
@@CnekYT The problem with this argument is that all the places listed have the same amount if not more white people living in these cities yet they aren't committing 7x more crime despite living in these "shitty areas of the country"
The fact of the matter is that all of these places have: Manitoba Warriors, Indian Posse, and Native Syndicate. All huge gangs.
@@CnekYTwell no. Murdochville is a shitty town in Quebec, completely isolated with crazy high poverty and drugs, still violent crime is low. And they are 99% white.
@@CnekYTreason why crimes are high among First Nations is mainly because of drugs & alcohol. Violent crimes are often done against their women. They have this to resolve. Not all is because of the « mean » white man. That is enough of that narrative. The victimization of a small group is not taking anymore. Many « white » towns are on that list too. Because of biker gangs. That is mostly a white problem. We all have our problems… and we all need to deal with them. There is also culture that plays a role. The Maritimes and Quebec have a lot of remote towns that are very poor and crime rates are not that high. Even First Nations towns, compared to the West are low in crimes even if higher compared to other towns of the same provinces. Tight-knit communities with goals, where religion & culture were preserved seem to do better…
Prince Albert makes sense its the only city up north in Saskatchewan and it's absolutely surrounded with reserves. The unemployment rate in actual PA isn't that bad but all the reserves around it likely have closer to a 100% unemployment rate. That leaves 1000s of first nations people with nothing to do except crime and PA is the closest city.
Yeah there’s no way the unemployment rate is what they said it is. It has to be higher. I’ve always wondered where that statistic comes from. If it’s just from the number of people collecting unemployment it means absolutely nothing.
I grew up in Wetaskiwin in the 80's .. I dont remember it being so unsafe that I couldnt roam the streets at night.. I remember a little crime, but I felt safe for the most part..
Perhaps I was just innocent or naive...
What I hear about it now makes me sad..
The 80s was 45 yrs ago wetaskiwin grimy now
I live in Wetaskiwin today. It's mostly gang related crimes. It's not the homeless population causing issues.
This city has changed big time. Been here since 81.
Hobbema is the largest Reserve, but I believe there are 4-5 more around Hobbema.
@billfarley9167
There are 4 bands of indigenous peoples. Montana,Erminskin,Louis Bull and Samson. The new name is Muskwacis. No longer Hobbema.👍
Maybe you should compare the CSI score with the native population percentage.
It's not native people killing eacother.. some are jealous I guess. Lol
@@gamefreak15185 It literally is natives killing each other.
R2 = 0.99999
Small towns, small budgets, I guess, and here in Canada, we don't keep criminals in jail, automatic release for even repeat violent offenders.
No it's mostly indigenous crime in places like Thompson . This is BIG budget stuff . Places like Thompso are a huge drain on money , while still putting out big money from the mines . Thompson is full of zombified people .
I’d be interested to see how these compare to other countries in North and Central America.
I do have a video about Mexican city crime. If you enjoyed this, you would probably enjoy and be shocked by that video. I haven't done the USA because tons of people have already done that. Practically no videos on Canada and Mexico though.
Do your search and you'll come up with a different town/city on every site.
Todaya average happens to be Surrey, BC
Pretty sad world we live in. Makes me sick to see what’s happening to our country. I think to start we need to shut the revolving door to criminals and drug traffickers. There is known criminals with over 100 convictions and they keep putting back on the street until they’re convicted of rape or murder. Sickening.
THANK TURDO MY FRIEND.
It’s called Jordan’s principle for natives. Trudeau needed votes so bad he will bend over for anyone but white oil workers.
Do you think drug traffickers only come from other countries? There are plenty of home grown ones that you "close the door on".
@@useyournoodle100 It appears to me that you have misinterpreted the "revolving door" reference. It has nothing to do with immigration but is more the"catch and release" approach to "justice" so prevalent today.
Social support is missing. Schools are terrible. And too many people drink too much. Alcohol causes societal rot.
Despite 70% of Canadians living east of the Manitoba/Ontario border, 100% of the Towns on list are west of that border.
Well done on pronouncing Quesnel properly.
I live 200km North of Whitehorse so I laughed at calling Terrace and Thompson "North". Thanks for that.
Quesnel is a French word and should be pronounced “K-Nel” in my opinion
@@etiendre As a chef, 100% agree and that's how I pronounce it in that setting. When I lived in BC, Kwi-Nell is the proper pronunciation.
I suggest you check your data Quebec and Atlantic provinces have a smaller population than the prairies and BC.
I laughed when he said "throwing money at the problem," which means giving police more money to "address violent crime," which means, give themselves a raise. This method has failed constantly through my whole life, but any attempt to suggest spending a tenth of that amount to address the causes and roots of crime are shouted down by people convinced that next time, if we give the cops a hundred million, they'll kick ass. Why Canadians always want to imitate America to solve problems is beyond me.
@@reddeercanoe Ontario, Quebec, NL/Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI = 64% of total population. Sure, I was off by 6 percentage points when I did my rough math. Well done, I stand corrected.
I was staying at a place overnight one time just outside of Saskatoon and almost got mugged by Sasquach.
Im from Sudbury and we have our problems but have lived all over Canada as a teacher. I have lived in BC, Alberta Sask and Manitoba and I always felt far more unsafe than in Ontario. Most of these problem cities are cities high in unemployment and higher in drugs /alcohol.
Dont blame the Indigenous , they were forced to areas that are extremely isolated , have very high unemployment and generational trauma. In Ontario we are all too busy working 3 jobs to afford anything to be criminals. I literally taught on reserves near 6/10 cities mentioned here. I dodged some bullets.
Yep, me too.
Christina Freeland keeps saying "Kanada is a triple A country." It should be triple J country for Job # 1, Job #2 & Job #3
Leftist white women making excuses for minority crime is one of the reasons our Country is failing.
Yup to blame is useless, detrimental to all parties involved or in vicinity..
exception Brampton and the immigrated
Who live in these small towns. Show the inhabitants and we will know what the cause is.
Go to north battleford for your answer lol
Canadians
natives. the special people with get out of jail free cards.
Shitty police is a large part of the issue
I’m amazed Ontario didn’t have any towns listed. I was 100% sure my town was going to be in the top 3
I was suprised that every one was out west. I too thought that some town out this way would rank up there.
Brampton?
Thunder Bay?
@@alextaylor8776 This is a list of small towns, under 100 000.
@@jg8060 This is a list of small towns, under 100 000.
you should do a video similar to this but only focus on eastern canada because all of these were western/central. like do ontario to NL, i think that would be interesting
Thank you. I have actually been working on it for a few months. As I type as a matter of fact! :D
@@AJMSTUDIOSvideo woohoo 🥳 i just found your channel today and subscribed so hopefully i’ll catch it when it comes out!!
Then why did you call it what you did? Seems like you focussed on Midwest Canada northbound.
Did anyone notice the "not subscribing to the channel" as part of the CSI?? That brought a nice laugh
those stats are really accurate about mantobia's small town etc.. only getting worse here in Mantobia sadly especially in Winnipeg.
No surprize about Thomson either sadly. its not that friendly of a town no more and its be told that if your going that way to avoid thompson now or just stop and get gas and go
It's unfortunate how much the area has changed even over the last 20 years. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
I'm not shocked that Morris or Steinach isn't in the top ten never mind the top 20.
It's getting worse all over the country for the most part.
Wetaskiwin is my home town. For a town of 12k it has 15 liquor stores and just as many pawn shops. If your stuff was stolen its likely in one of the pawn shops. When i was in K-9 school there were needles and other drug paraphernalia found in the playground often enough. One time during gym we were outside and found a drunk guy in the dumpster.
Sir I had to add a little sarcasm, love your talk your right on...
Valuable info here. I recently retired and have to pick a place to spend my final years.
I live in Lethbridge, number two on the list, and it’s gotten so bad here,due to drugs and surrounded by reservations! No one willingly goes downtown after dark, that I know…
Keep checking the classifieds for a better job
where can I see any given town ? I find 3rd party website, but don't know if I can trust it. Where can I see these stats for Lindsay Ontario ?
Yes. So I used Statistics Canada. You can find the stats here.
www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/crime_and_justice
An easier one to navigate and see similar stats would be MacLeans.
www.macleans.ca/canadas-most-dangerous-places-2020/
I hope these are useful for you. :)
Suggestions: Explain CSI. Many people will not know what this means. Break down your video into provincial zones. For example: northern, Southern, Eastern and western zones. This video concentrates on small towns/cities in the western zone. I live in Ontario. What does crime look like in small towns in this province?
Thank you. I will try to better explain it, but I do explain it at the beginning of the video. I will detail it more in future uploads.
This video is for all of Canada. It just so happens that the top 15 most dangerous cities statistically were all in Western Canada. So I will do a video in the future that focused purely on Eastern Canada. Probably Ontario eastward.
Being from and living in Saskatchewan I can say Prince Albert and North Battleford aren't always enjoyable to visit.
One of my last visits to Prince Albert included two very inebriated women fighting amongst themselves in the parking lot of a grocery store.
I do have friends that have grown up in both cities and they've always held "street cred" very high it's as if they grew with a completely different view of the law.
A lot crime spurs up before winter so that some people have a warm place to stay in these parts.
Alcoholism is rampant to the point some people are drinking mouthwash and Lysol.
Most of the fast food restaurants in Prince Albert have black lights and or lockable entrances to their bathrooms to deter injectable drug use.
One extremely important fact about Prince Albert is that is has two large detention facilities and a Penitentiary.
North Battleford is two hours away from Prince Albert and it's an easy to catch a ride in-between them.
Rent is comparitively cheap in both cities, meaningful employment is limited. Most of the people committing these crimes in those cities also dont have legal addresses in them so the numbers are heavily skewed as well.
Exactly. Not to mention the high indigenous population in both those places which has a lot to do with the drug and alcohol abuse as well as unemployment (government gives them money so they gave cash for vices and no incentive to work)