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Table 3
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and province or territory, 2015 and 2016

Table 3
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and province or territory, 2015 and 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Homicides. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Gang-related, 2016 and 2015, calculated using number, percent and number of total homicides units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Gang-related^{Table 3 Note 1}
	2016			2015^{Note r: revised}
	number	percent^{Table 3 Note 2}	number of total homicides	number	percent^{Table 3 Note 2}	number of total homicides
Newfoundland and Labrador	1	14.3	7	0	0.0	3
Prince Edward Island	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	0	0	0.0	1
Nova Scotia	3	23.1	13	0	0.0	12
New Brunswick	2	20.0	11	0	0.0	11
Quebec	19	29.2	67	19	25.7	79
Ontario	45	22.8	206	21	12.9	174
Manitoba	9	21.4	42	4	8.5	47
Saskatchewan	13	24.5	54	5	11.4	44
Alberta	20	18.3	116	28	22.0	133
British Columbia	29	34.1	87	19	19.6	97
Yukon	0	0.0	4	0	0.0	1
Northwest Territories	0	0.0	3	0	0.0	5
Nunavut	0	0.0	1	0	0.0	2
Canada	141	24.0	611	96	16.4	609

Table 3 continued
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and province or territory, 2015 and 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Homicides. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Firearm-related, 2016 and 2015, calculated using number, percent and number of total homicides units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Firearm-related^{Table 3 Note 3}
	2016			2015^{Note r: revised}
	number	percent^{Table 3 Note 4}	number of total homicides	number	percent^{Table 3 Note 4}	number of total homicides
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0.0	7	1	33.3	3
Prince Edward Island	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	0	0	0.0	1
Nova Scotia	9	75.0	13	3	27.3	12
New Brunswick	3	30.0	11	3	27.3	11
Quebec	27	40.9	67	28	36.4	79
Ontario	82	42.5	206	49	28.3	174
Manitoba	5	12.5	42	7	15.6	47
Saskatchewan	17	33.3	54	11	25.0	44
Alberta	44	37.9	116	49	39.5	133
British Columbia	35	44.3	87	26	29.5	97
Yukon	1	25.0	4	1	100.0	1
Northwest Territories	0	0.0	3	1	20.0	5
Nunavut	0	0.0	1	0	0.0	2
Canada	223	38.3	611	179	30.6	609
... not applicable ^r revised Note 1 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. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes homicides where the gang-related status was reported as unknown. Return to note 2 referrer 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.). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Excludes homicides where the weapon used to kill the victim was reported as unknown. Return to note 4 referrer Note: There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada. Numbers may not add up to totals due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.

Date modified:: 2017-11-22