Table 4
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 4
Homicides, by gang-related and firearm-related status and census metropolitan area, 2016
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 4 Note 1 Gang-relatedTable 4 Note 2 Firearm-relatedTable 4 Note 3 Total reported homicides
number percentTable 4 Note 4 number percentTable 4 Note 5 number
St. John's 1 25.0 0 0.0 4
Halifax 3 25.0 9 75.0 12
Moncton 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
Saint John 1 33.3 1 33.3 3
Saguenay 0 0.0 1 50.0 2
Québec 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
Sherbrooke 0 0.0 1 50.0 2
Trois-Rivières Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 0
Montréal 18 43.9 22 52.4 42
GatineauTable 4 Note 6 0 0.0 0 0.0 3
OttawaTable 4 Note 7 7 30.4 12 50.0 24
Kingston Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 0
Peterborough 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Oshawa 0 0.0 0 0.0 4
Toronto 33 37.1 51 56.0 96
Hamilton 0 0.0 6 50.0 12
St. Catharines–Niagara 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 0 0.0 1 25.0 6
Brantford 0 0.0 1 25.0 4
Guelph 1 100.0 1 100.0 1
London 1 12.5 1 20.0 8
Windsor 1 33.3 0 0.0 3
Barrie 0 0.0 0 0.0 2
Greater Sudbury Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 0
Thunder Bay 1 12.5 0 0.0 8
Winnipeg 7 28.0 5 21.7 25
Regina 4 50.0 2 25.0 8
Saskatoon 2 20.0 1 10.0 10
Calgary 6 21.4 14 42.4 33
Edmonton 11 24.4 23 48.9 47
Kelowna 2 40.0 2 50.0 5
Abbotsford–Mission 3 50.0 3 50.0 6
Vancouver 19 46.3 18 48.6 41
Victoria 0 0.0 0 0.0 1
CMA total 121 30.3 175 44.0 417
Non-CMA total 20 10.6 48 26.1 194
Canada 141 24.0 223 38.3 611
... 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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Note: Numbers may not add up to totals due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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