Is Toronto a dangerous city? And is it getting worse? This week for Metrocide, Torontoist is examining a sea of homicide data and trying to come up with conclusions based not in fear or fantasy but fact. Over the past week, we've examined a number of different homicide statistics: Toronto's homicides and homicide rates from 1981 to 2007; motor vehicle fatalities compared to homicides from 1993 to 2007; homicides, homicide rates, and percentages of homicides......

Is Toronto a dangerous city? And is it getting worse? This week for Metrocide, Torontoist is examining a sea of homicide data and trying to come up with conclusions based not in fear or fantasy but fact. Photo of Calgary by D'Arcy Norman. Ever since Toronto earned its reputation as a safe city, safe has tended to be a relative term—safe compared to Detroit, safe compared to New York, safe compared to Chicago. Comparisons between......

Is Toronto a dangerous city? And is it getting worse? This week for Metrocide, Torontoist is examining a sea of homicide data and trying to come up with conclusions based not in fear or fantasy but fact. Photo of Toronto from the CN Tower in 1981 by retroman from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Though it's difficult to ethically explain away, homicides tend to affect people less the further away they happen, on both on a......

Is Toronto a dangerous city? And is it getting worse? This week for Metrocide, Torontoist is examining a sea of homicide data and trying to come up with conclusions based not in fear or fantasy but fact. Photo from 1986 by .allen from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. 1981 was the first year for Canada's Wonderland and NOW, the year of the Toronto bathhouse raids, and the year that Terry Fox died. That year, Toronto the......

Is Toronto a dangerous city? And is it getting worse? This week for Metrocide, Torontoist is examining a sea of homicide data and trying to come up with conclusions based not in fear or fantasy but fact. In her introduction to August's Toronto Life, Editor Sarah Fulford writes that "numbers alone can't communicate the impact of gun violence—on the families of the victims or on the city itself. We hope that our cover, which commemorates......