We are Canada’s least safe city – at least in terms of public perception.
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By comparison, Winnipeg ranked at the very bottom of list out of 15 cities, perceived as the most unsafe city in the country. Saskatoon, meanwhile, came in twelfth.
Those numbers are interesting because they don’t match up with the actual data from Statistics Canada.
A new Mainstreet/Postmedia poll, ranking which major cities Canadians view as safest, indicates Regina is perceived as one of the country’s safest cities and that Saskatoon is viewed as safer than Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg.
Winnipeg, meanwhile, ranked least safe, receiving the only negative score alongside Toronto. While crime in Winnipeg is ranked worse than the Canadian average (its CSI is 87.2), the city is still lower on the crime scale than its Prairie neighbours Saskatoon (112.5), Edmonton (101.6) and even Vancouver (96.2).
“Saskatchewan has a real problem with crime compared to other Canadian cities”, Quito Maggi, the president of Mainstreet Research, said in a news release.
A new poll has provided some insight into the perceptions Canadians have of crime in their country, and which cities are the most risky.
The crime severity index (CSI) rates cities, with a base of 100, on the seriousness of the crimes committed.
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The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus 1.52 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
