Table 6
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and census metropolitan area, 2015

Table 6
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and census metropolitan area, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Homicides. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Gang-related, Firearm-related and Total reported homicides, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 6 Note 1 Gang-relatedTable 6 Note 2 Firearm-relatedTable 6 Note 3 Total reported homicides
number percentTable 6 Note 4 number percentTable 6 Note 5 number
St. John's 0 0.0 1 50.0 2
Halifax 0 0.0 2 28.6 8
Moncton 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Saint John 0 0.0 1 33.3 3
Saguenay 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
Québec 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Sherbrooke 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
Trois-Rivières 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Montréal 20 42.6 20 42.6 47
GatineauTable 6 Note 6 0 0.0 1 100.0 1
OttawaTable 6 Note 7 2 28.6 3 42.9 7
Kingston 0 0.0 1 33.3 3
Peterborough 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
Oshawa 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Toronto 12 16.7 27 33.3 82
Hamilton 2 28.6 3 42.9 7
St. Catharines–Niagara 0 0.0 0 0.0 7
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 1 16.7 2 33.3 6
Brantford 0 Note ...: not applicable 0 Note ...: not applicable 0
Guelph 0 0.0 1 50.0 2
London 2 28.6 3 42.9 8
Windsor 0 0.0 2 33.3 6
Barrie 0 0.0 0 0.0 3
Greater Sudbury 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Thunder Bay 0 0.0 0 0.0 3
Winnipeg 3 13.6 5 22.7 22
Regina 2 25.0 2 25.0 8
Saskatoon 2 20.0 4 40.0 10
Calgary 12 31.6 16 44.4 39
Edmonton 6 17.1 15 44.1 39
Kelowna 0 0.0 0 0.0 3
Abbotsford–Mission 1 33.3 1 33.3 3
Vancouver 13 27.7 15 32.6 47
Victoria 0 0.0 0 0.0 8
CMA total 78 21.1 125 33.7 387
Non-CMA total 20 9.5 53 25.6 217
Canada 98 16.9 178 30.8 604
... not applicable
Note 1.

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

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Note 2.

A homicide is classified as gang-related when police confirm or suspect that the accused person and/or victim involved in the homicide was either a member, or a prospective member, of an organized crime group or street gang or was somehow associated with an organized crime group or street gang, and the homicide was carried out as a result of this association.

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Note 3.

Includes fully automatic firearms, handguns (semi-automatic guns and revolvers), rifles, shotguns and sawed-off rifles/sawed-off shotguns and other firearm-like weapons (e.g., zip guns, flare guns, nail guns, pellet rifles/pistols, etc.).

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Note 4.

Excludes homicides where the gang-related status was reported as unknown.

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Note 5.

Excludes homicides where the weapon used to kill the victim was reported as unknown.

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Note 6.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 7.

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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