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The crime rate in Canada dropped 3% last year, hitting its lowest overall rate in 25 years, with the GTA one of the least criminally inclined of Canadian cities. Politicians and police agencies will want to take credit for the decline, but the explanation can more likely be found in recent census data which noted the accelerating codgerization of Canadian society.
The Conservatives fell 3 points in opinion polls last month, in spite of a cross-country tour by Stephen Harper. Apparently the angry android persona isn’t selling well—maybe the PM could take advantage of his natural stiffness by adopting the robot dance as his signature move at public appearances.
The Ontario government has launched a new EatRight telephone service to help provide information on food and health. Now you have somewhere to call and have the question “do these pants make me look fat?” answered in 120 different languages.
City councillors yesterday declined an opportunity to roll back their 9% salary increase as a response to the predicted fiscal crunch. The move led to heated debate between the "Let them eat cake" group and the opposing "Won't somebody please think of the children" faction.
An out of control tractor-trailer crashed through a bus shelter and into a sporting goods store at the intersection of Warden and Lawrence yesterday, killing one woman and injuring her baby and several other people. The intersection was noted as one of the most dangerous in Toronto back in 2002.
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So...support for the federal Conservatives is down three percent, and the Crime Rate is down three percent.
What does this mean???
Let's see if Harper and company want to cash in on the decrease of crime. That's a legacy of the Liberal government and the sociey it created.
Harper would be wise to keep his mouth shut and nose to the grindstone for the next year so he doesn't do him self any more harm.
But of course, he'll be done in by the likes of Sandra Buckler, Jason Kenney and Rahim Jaffer.
The Samson complex of pulling down the temple from the inside will be his own undoing.
Good riddance to him and his ilk.
Seriously, if there was a better indication that the majority of city council should be voted out of office, I don't know what it is. The city is broke, we going to have to raise everyones taxes, but don't you DARE touch our salaries? I call bullshit.
From the crime link:
"In 1977, 10 per cent of the population was made up of young men between the ages of 18-29, and today that figure is five per cent, and we know that they commit most violent crime and most crime generally," said Boyd. "If you've got fewer young men in your population as a percentage of the total, your rate is going to drop."
Said Irving Kulik of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association: "We have less youth than we had and crime is a young person's game, unfortunately."
And then again:
Still, the StatsCan release also identified increases in certain types of crimes. The number of aggravated assaults reported by police were up for the second year in a row, rising by five per cent. Assaults with a weapon and assaults causing bodily harm were up by four per cent over 2005 and reached their highest level since 1983.
So the Liberal plan was to reduce the number of young men? And are they also taking credit for the increase in assaults with a weapon and assaults causing bodily harm?