Murder Capital

(from a Globe&Mail article)
According to a report by Statistics Canada, Canada's homicide rate jumped in 2004 after reaching a 30 year low in 2003. Five of the nation's largest census metropolitan areas accounted for the majority of last year's increase. Winnipeg has the highest per-capita murder rate among the county's nine largest urban areas. Homicides by census metropolitan area per 100,000 population.

Winnipeg	4.89
Edmonton	3.39
Vancouver	2.58
Calgary	1.91
Toronto	1.80
Montreal	1.73
Ottawa-Gatineau*	1.14
Hamilton	1.30
Quebec	0.84

*refers to the Ontario part of Ottawa-Gatineau census metropolitan area
SOURCE: STATISITCS CANADA