Most Dangerous Small Towns & Cities In Canada

It is time we explore the most dangerous small towns and cities in Canada. As a follow up to our biggest cities list, this list hones in on the smaller towns throughout the country. Canada is unique in that the small towns often have more crime than the big cities, at least per capita. By far this has been the most requested topic we cover, so we do just that in the Most Dangerous Small Towns And Cities In Canada!

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

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[@Action-je2lu]

Congratulations! Your videos are fun and informative to watch! Keep making these videos :)

[@TomBrown-cq4vu]

CONGRADULATIONS !!

[@ladylove8565]

I could give you a lot of details on Grande Prairie Alberta since I live here and I'm in full agreement that this is a dangerous city. Last month someone broke into my house broad daylight when I was home, I knew a lady who had her neighbor attacked in an home invasion not to mention the police chases I've watched. Grande Prairie is switching from RCMP to city police and they are in the process currently

[@RoseCote-ju7tn]

Try Nipawin sask from murders ,breakins ,beating seniors just out walking ,thefts ,suicides ,and more

[@SirManfly]

@@RoseCote-ju7tn In other words, beautiful as some of these places might be, no jobs, nothing to do and isolation causes substance abuse and crime. Sounds like most small towns in Canada and the U.S. that have these same types of issues?

[@legoatjames4566]

Im black, and lived in an all white small town called Devon just about 30 minutes outside Edmonton. It was low key my favourite town I’ve lived in. Everyone was friendly, they didn’t care that my family was the only Black family. They treated us like equals. Not to be racist or anything, but from experience, all white towns in Alberta tend to be super safe and have friendly people.

[@user-sy3wp9cy8d]

Come to Toronto where it is reverse, and I don't feel safe

[@kevin-yn2ns]

Yeah black people are not really the problem in small towns in Canada. I won't say what it is but you can guess.

[@prestonsplace007]

I'm a photographer who spends a lot of time on the road around Alberta and meeting lots of people. I've talked with many peoples of color and none have complaints of racism. Our discussions get pretty deep including the accountability aspect of how society perceives us regardless of color. On the other hand, when I talk to fellow whiteys and mention accountability for some problems faced by some peoples of color, their immediate response is that I'm a racist. Racism has become a tool of the left they use to empower themselves with fake virtues when those very actions paint them as the true race baiters.

[@songsabai3794]

In Western Canada,"Safe" generally means living in at least 100km radius from a Reserve.

[@random_ucker]

​@user-sy3wp9cy8d Cities where never considered safe. It was common knowledge in the early 20th century. Rural living is called "the easy life" for a good reason.

[@xXxJeninexXx]

Grew up in Selkirk and also lived in Thompson. This is not surprising!! We don’t call it “Sel-crack, Methatoba” for no reason!! 🙈

[@dosmundos3830]

the reason is that you're childish lol

[@GetIntoYourLife]

Manitoba is barf

[@dosmundos3830]

@@GetIntoYourLife so's your mom

[@wwerdo4]

Thompson is hands down one of the worst places in Manitoba. Moose Lake is pretty rough too, used to live there for about 3 years and I’d never go back.

[@me-xv6tf]

Selkirk born and bred... and I got outta there years ago. Redneck-ville and a definite south vs north end vibe big-time.

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

I grew up in a small town in Canada, and while my town was very safe, it seems like the cold and darkness does something to people. I swear the further north you go, the worse the issues get.

[@BossPresident]

Lack of sun, grow some plants like tomatoes, give some 3 hours of sun others 6 hours others 10 hours a day and see how much bigger the ones with more sun get while the ones with 3 hours sun hardly develop, vitamin D2 etc. Shalom

[@John_Conner_]

​@BossPresident with that lack of sun there's also 8 months of cold weather so good luck with that, tell me how to grow tomatoes in permafrost

[@BossPresident]

@@John_Conner_ The point was we need sun, like plants, and without sun, just like plants, we don’t do as well. Get some sun, and you won’t be so sour and salty. Cheers buddy 🍻

[@marykatherine9098]

I grew up in a small town in northern Ontario and I have a lot of relatives in Sudbury and surrounding areas and not once have any of them complain of bad stuff happening to to them. If DONT KNOW THE FACTS OR THE TRUTH STOP SPREADING RUMORS!!!

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

@@marykatherine9098 I mean, just because your town is safe doesn’t mean that there aren’t problems in other small towns in Canada. You’re making a purely anecdotal argument for a country with thousands of small towns spread over a massive territory. Note that the issues people have with the cold and darkness are well documented not just in Canada, but in other northern countries.

[@lynneturner3704]

High crime is also to do with repeat offenders and the revolving door arrest and release protocol. The same persons doing most of the criminal offences in small towns.

[@harmony331000]

Yup 100%

[@MythsScamsLies]

You're drinking Peter Peckerhead's Kool-Aid and it's making you stupid. Post ANY STUDY that ties our crime rates to our parole system.

[@Kazz715]

Good point . That's also true in Thunder Bay, my town. Supposed to be 'crime capital of Canada' lol

[@billtozerrealtor7331]

Thank Trudeau and his NDP cabal!!

[@MythsScamsLies]

@@billtozerrealtor7331 The laws, the rules around bail and the rules around parole have not changed in any significant fashion under the current Liberal government. They are the same as they were under the Harper government. You're being played because you aren't very bright.

[@johnkidd1226]

Some common denominators of your top 10 that you failed to mention. They are all policed by RCMP. They all have a large indigenous population in the area, some are offenders but many are victims as well. Many are centres of high paying but temporary work like forestry, mining, pipelines that attract transient workers without roots in the community. Some may be offenders but many are also victims of crime. Indigenous and transient populations also attract a high number of alcohol and drug related crimes.

[@77dris]

Yup, the 3 Manitoba towns listed here all have very high (and rapidly growing) aboriginal populations. They are essentially just new reserves now.

[@simonouellette8608]

The comment being policed by RCMP, the RCMP are very understaffed and overworked, not to mention burnout for the members that actually do work. Couple that with the catch and release policies of repeat criminals, it’s a recipe ripe for disaster.

[@johnkidd1226]

@@simonouellette8608 Nothing against the individual members but their training has never been geared to urban policing and the upper ranks have been politicized in a way that never should have happened.

[@meusatrumtempestas]

"They all have a large indigenous population in the area, some are offenders but many are victims as well. Spot on as we have experienced this very issue also.

[@LeeirahBrashka]

Woliwon! its like there is a rcmp target on our back, I wonder why 😅

[@jackieschamehorn2752]

I'm from that area and I definitely would never move back. I left when I was in my teens and it is very sad when the reserves have crooks that are supposed to be their for the people but they aren't. It sickening to see how this generation is. I taught my children (now adults) to finish school get a degree and work. To this day they never want to go visit at my reservation. I don't blame them nothing there. We don't receive any type of money and we are doing fine. Except the fact that we are being treated poorly in the city even though we have our own home and work everyone thinks that we get free money and it's totally the opposite we work and pay taxes like everyone else. I keep myself humble and I definitely am a person who sees most chief and council steal from their own people. Nothing is going to get any better unless they start trying to cleaning up the reservations.

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

And just like you and you family, the change has to come from within. You made the change. You shared that change with your children and now they will spread that change. The same needed to happen in certain locations, but that conviction isn't there with too many people. They sadly don't change.

[@vanadians3819]

It would do some well to EDUCATE themselves. 1st off, on average each Native American receives 5 dollars A YEAR from the Canadian government. 2nd, Unless they have a job ON THE RESERVE (of which there aren't many) they pay income taxes the same as everyone else. 3rd Those Native funds held by the government earn interest which is used by the rest of Canada as well. Those are just some FACTS most Canadians haven't bothered to learn!!!!!

[@jenniferh4248]

All dirty natives. Get a grip

[@stevewrathwell4740]

And now tell us about the box you check on our income tax and it exempts sooooo many benefits and not expected to pay.

[@charlenewilliams219]

@@vanadians3819you said Native American? Was that a typo?

[@yodasecondave]

How about the top 10 safest small towns in Canada- it would be interesting to compare the similarities and differences

[@50clubboys]

Demographics and economics.

[@anntaylor4440]

All the best, safest cities are in the East!! Yay proud to be from Eastern Canada

[@valerieurquhart3133]

@@anntaylor4440 Probably because you keep shipping your criminals west LOL. On a serious note, the Canadian witness protection program seems to target small, isolated communities to relocate their clients to, of which the western provinces have plenty of. In some cases the witness is a criminal who turned on other criminals in exchange for protection. Pedophiles are another group that are relocated to small, unsuspecting, isolated communities after finishing their sentence. At times it seems the criminals have more rights than the law-abiding citizens.

[@deadnorth8648]

We don't want people moving and changing things...

[@james3593]

@@valerieurquhart3133 there’s small isolated communities all over Canada in every province lol

[@IzaakCha7]

My best friend moved to Thompson this summer to work in the mine, I thought I might never see him again. He was back home in the Maritimes in only *three days.* Thompson was an absolute nightmare.

[@lemontea1037]

@@brodyallard9011 yup. ttown is crazy. never liked walking alone there.

[@dizzyrick7653]

I lived there a year and a half, and that was enough for me. The reserves ship all their worst troublemakers to Thompson in the summer, but Thompson isn't legally allowed to ship them anywhere else because it would be "racist", so Thompson turns into a violence-ridden shithole for the 4 months without snow.

[@TomBrown-cq4vu]

He never found the right squaw

[@djstobbe1301]

Yes it's bad there just left a job site where they tried to blow up the foreman's truck because he fired the locals for not coming to work lol

[@shaecloud4403]

0_0 TIL Canada has an oklahoma spelled thompson

[@humorinpolitics56]

I grew up in a small town of 1,900 people in Canada, and the crime rate was almost non existant. We used to say that if someone took a crap at one end of town, everyone at the other end knew before the toilet was flushed LOL. We had 4 police officers and everyone knew everyone.

[@MaggotInfestedGod]

sounds horrible if you like to keep to yourself tbh

[@BaconizedCanadian]

@@MaggotInfestedGod No it isn't

[@joesmith323]

If we want to reduce the crime rate in the small towns of western Canada we probably need to reduce the rate of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder among the indigenous population. That will require a change of lifestyles in the indigenous community.

[@frakismaximus3052]

You've just offended feminists and indigenous activists lol

[@joesmith323]

@@frakismaximus3052 Maybe but it is the truth. FASD destroys lives and it is a huge problem in parts of Canada.

[@ahill4642]

“Truth & Reconciliation” needs to include rehab and counselling for the entire family.

[@ladygracesparkles]

That's what the jab was for.

[@joywebster2678]

And include secondary schools on remote reserves vs stopping at grade 8, and only the wealthy motivated indigenous go to boarding schools for high school. ( ont.)

[@sixfootianna]

As someone who lives in Williams Lake and has been kidnapped at gunpoint, I would say this is pretty accurate

[@ATIARImusic]

Holy shit, I'm SO sorry that happened to you. I hope you're healing and moving forward ❤

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

Glad you are okay now. That must have been horrifying.

[@fluffytail6355]

I’ve seen recent ads on TV trying to promote WL as a good quality of life with lots of “outdoors activities” in a scenic environment. Now that I know the truth, no thanks!

[@lsyt5834]

I just passed through last month thought it was a gorgeous place had no idea things were so bad

[@user-qx7pq7kd3q]

Toronto London and Vancouver have hundreds of murders per year these places have like 3

[@thedarkdescent2387]

The problem with all these small towns (atleast in manitoba) is that when somebody makes trouble on a reserve or their farm, they get exiled and sent to towns like portage la praire or Thompson. It sucks for the people who live there but the government keeps putting huge housing projects in the middle of the towns which is causing all the crime

[@user-lo7eo3nt6t]

The natives are just getting their revenge on the white man for stealing their land!😅

[@saganstephen2929]

I worked in thompson couple years back and all i can say is its a totally different world out there. People lining up in liquor stores in the early mornings, mouthwash and alcohol is behind locked shelves in pharmacies. Never seen anything like that

[@maximuslongrod6361]

i was there when i was in my teens, visiting my mom and my siblings... in one summer both my brothers ended up in the hospital from getting jumped for no reason, my moms house was broken into 3 times, her car was broken into once... ill never forget how shitty that place is. why they are all still there i will never understand. that was in the 90s, from what they tell me it hasnt changed much

[@brianbenoit6883]

Sooooo...like Prince George then, where it's illegal to sell mouthwash in anything larger than a 100ml container.

[@distanctive4768]

My classmate grew up there and he was one of the best students I’ve ever meet. And wow, the stories he would tell us 😅

[@Julius1225]

@@maximuslongrod6361 You was there in your teens? Wtf...explanation is that? And where do you have been before?

[@Julius1225]

@@brianbenoit6883 mouthwash? What is that ? Toothpaste with water ?

[@banalpedant41]

As a senior living in Canada all my life I can say the turning point in relation to crime was after the introduction of the "Young offenders act". It's long past time that we start to make our youth accountable for their actions IMO.

[@Marcel-fo2cb]

Truer words were never spoken

[@jrochest4642]

The Young Offenders Act was passed in 1982.

[@joywebster2678]

I dated a British law student doing his PhD at Uof T, he was specifically designing something called the Young Offenders Act. He returned to England after finishing it. You are right, so long ago. And what also changed is the loss of childhood and young teen innocence with the advent of computers. Thus the 12yr old girls playing barbie dolls are so long gone, it's absurd to think 15 yr olds can't be intentional criminals.

[@joywebster2678]

Oh goody my sister and her preacher husband moved to North Battleford Sask. They've stayed for 20 yrs because housing is cheap. SMH.

[@banalpedant41]

@@joywebster2678 We are witnessing the results that we all assumed. Folks have become more and more dependant on government services. Supporting single parents in the 80-90's to give the children a chance at life didn't go so well IMO. I'm not a religious person but believe in the family unit. The demise of proper housing in stable homes has had a lot to do with what brought us here. We have killed our youth with kindness. So much so they can't seem to look after themselves.

[@airdad5383]

All these places are in western Canada the wild west. I still find Canada to be a very safe place after travelling the country coast to coast to coast. Alcohol and drugs cause problems in small towns when people are bored.

[@shahonchen6661]

Living in Toronto for 26 years is already a great boredom experience for me, so imagine the real ultimate boredom people face in those wild west small towns!

[@davidrussell8795]

When work dissapears,ppl lose site of themselves! To quote an old saying: Idle hands are the devils playground! A lot of our work has gone to Asia,where ppl can live on peanut wages,Europe was no better back in the mid 90's. In Germany, you stood in a food line! Here,our children have not read the Bible in school,so don't have a moral standard to live by! Or attend church,to know Who God is! And right from wrong! Our society has become monetary based,without money,ppl will do things they normally wouldn't, like steal food,or get drunk! Since the Greyhound bus lines went out of business, I hear on the net,vehicle theft us on the rise out in the prairies! A lot of young ppl were asked if they voted 30 yrs ago,the response was,why bother! And as for church,if they aren't taught,just because you can't see,God and Angels,doesn't mean they're not there,as well as the devil! The prairies have lost the family farm,no work,so all must find work elsewhere!...but where if it's all gone to Asia, whats left? A lot of baby boomers left the farms 50 years ago,and moved to the big city! For jobs! Also,the computer destroys a lot of jobs,but also creates some!,less then more!

[@rtoma76]

Oddly as courts were told to quit prosecuting a certain minority because it was racist, crimes climbed. Strange that all the cities in BC’s wild west have the same thing in common.

[@theredscourge]

A lot of small towns have had an influx of native people fleeing the reserves, but then struggle to find their place in the small towns which may or may not have jobs. Add that to the fentanyl crisis which is aggravated by the Trudeau government's permissive policy of "safe injection sites" and handing out "safe" opioids to addicts, which they then sell so they can buy the dangerous ones laced with fentanyl, and that accounts for a LOT of the small town crime. Prince Albert for example is the closest small city to a TON of the native reserves in Sask, and so it's not surprising that property crime is so high there.

[@Peglegkickboxer]

​@@shahonchen6661it's not boring out in the west it's poverty and large populations of first nations.

[@TheNotoriousMrDee]

When we were kids in The Pas, Manitoba, the only time we were safe to walk around town was when Hell's Angels would come to town every summer to sell drugs. We didn't do drugs but their competitors, Indian Posse raised a lot of hell for us. Tons of drinking, homelessness, random acts of violence, and the cops seem to do absolutely nothing but stop drunk drivers and speeders. It's basically Thompson but crimes usually go unreported because it's a waste of time and you yourself might get grief from the RCMP. They're absurdly corrupt and lazy.

[@DavidM-hn8qq]

Canada has a love affair with the RCMP (Mounties) based on the 1940's-1950's stories and legends of a Hollywood movie industry thousands of miles away in a foreign country (Hollywood USA). To criticize the "mounties" is "UN-CANADIAN" because this dumb and patriotically NAIVE country has few other sources of national pride and prestige, and the "mainstream" news-media puts the "mounties" in a good light ALL THE TIME in return for cooperation from them in crime reporting.

[@mcwitch77]

Seems to be the trend with the list, majority policing is by RCMP

[@chillguygaming420]

which year did this take place?

[@VancouverIslandHippie]

With the liberal govt allowing the drugs in public and legalizing it, it's bound the hands of many police officers. My friend is Chief of police, and mentions the frustration of what they are not allowed to do. Her hubby is retired R.C.M.P. and separately shared the same views.

[@rethacarriere2054]

​@mcwiyou cannot blame the rcmp tch77

[@craigaustin4779]

Funny every reference to "gangs" shows Hells Angels, which are basically Unicorns in the big picture. Indigenous gangs do virtually all the heavy lifting.

[@aboveaverageazzuen2684]

I mean I know friends who have some distant affiliations to HAMC, and honestly... As long as you have no debts with them. And you don't cause any trouble or issues. They're more than likely to just leave you alone. You start popping your mouth off saying you're with HAMC... Well that's when you have issues

[@johnrebel9539]

Your right.

[@nene3857]

Ya, the Angels seem to carry all the blame I've noticed.

[@johnrebel9539]

@@nene3857 theres no chapters in native communities that destroy themselves with substanc. Indian posse is the largest gang in Canada btw

[@robertmoulton2656]

To point out the obvious and the factual is racist

[@technology5674]

I do utility work for a big company(Not gonna name for my job security), went to a res by fort Mac called Janvier, the company we do telecoms for had sent over 4 sub contracted companies and they all left because of people there are too violent, the place was disgusting, every home dam near looked like a dump, crack heads everywhere, lady was tweaking out and ran infront of my work truck lol We got sent in as no other company was willing to go finish the fibre optics installation for the res, our placer got a knife stuck up to him for his glasses When I went there there were cars burning in the ditches, locals tailing me for half an hour, we had a lay down that was well hidden and the locals stole a bunch of our fibre optics cables thinking it was copper, returned it all bunched up and partly stripped 😂 They had broken into our structures to pull our big mainline fibre out and try to strip it infront of the police for copper, the cops asked them what they're doing and they simply replied "Looking for copper to sell" no copper in fibre optics lines lol We had to be escorted everywhere with people to watch our backs and protect us just so we can work, place was an absolute nightmare

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

That is so sad how desperate some people are. Glad you made it out safely with your crew. That sounds like a nightmare.

[@DavidM-hn8qq]

@@AJMSTUDIOSvideo ---- Ft Mac has existed since the early 1960s. In all that time these "aboriginals" could not train, educate or commit to good jobs in the huge oil industry there.

[@deadnorth8648]

The real racism of Canada...

[@reboot_2.00]

@@deadnorth8648Yes, it sure as hell isn’t white people!

[@user-lo7eo3nt6t]

Yes,it sounds bad, but don't you think it was exciting going to that res?! You have a good story to tell your grandchildren! (Consider yourself lucky you weren't burned at the stake!)😅😂

[@guitarlover1370]

As an Indigenous person from Canada, I can honestly admit that we are almost the equivalent of African Americans in the US in terms of crimes, reservations here are almost worse than ghettos in the states it hurts when I hear of our own people killing eachother, (sometimes even family memebers killing family memebers) over drug dealing, I dont know why we reapeat this cycle over here in Canada

[@elGeant24]

I have sympathy with what you guys are living in. The Federal government should give you the permission to meet and have families with other reserve people and be able to keep your rights.

[@rodgerdeighton8098]

@@elGeant24what are you talking about?

[@rodgerdeighton8098]

It would help a lot if the monies allocated to the reserves get to the proper agencies and not into peoples pockets.

[@patweldon5880]

​@@rodgerdeighton8098Isn't that the truth, the chiefs and councilor members live the high life while we have women and children living in poverty on the reserves.

[@tallyho7287]

@@patweldon5880so do something about it!

[@MrOnionRing]

Red deer should have got an honorable mention for JUST barely being above 100k population threshold.

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

Red Deer did make the list in my "big cities" video for having just over 100k. It was my first video and not presented as cleanly as this.

[@daniel1122345]

You could make a whole video on that city alone

[@dyloniusofsparta]

My grandfather's 101 years old, he's lived in the same house for seventy years in a small town no bigger than a thousand people at most, never having to so much as lock his door. Then about ten years ago something started to change, all the drug addicts, criminals and drug addicted criminals from the small to mid size cities seemed to all come to the realization that these small communities were at best case, a half hour from police intervention. Now the disabled bodies worry about being beaten and robbed and the able bodied worry about ending up in court and the national news for defending their homes. This all started right around the same time as a certain somebody took office in Ottawa, and I don't believe in coincidence.

[@margaretr5701]

Feeling sad for your grandfather.

[@dyloniusofsparta]

@@margaretr5701 he's made it 101 years, it's just a shame he has to lock his door now and live in fear.

[@shahonchen6661]

All because of Trudope and his liberalism henchmen in the parliament!

[@margaretr5701]

@@dyloniusofsparta 101😊 Please send my best wishes to your grandfather. Also my understanding on the sad changes he's seen in his lifetime. It's true, we all have to be more careful now, life isn't as relaxed when having to constantly monitor our safety.

[@janlafournaise6505]

Oh for God sakes. Before you accuse someone check the facts.

[@dactus3993]

Terrace went from a very safe friendly place to a straight up open air mental asylum over the course of 2009 to today. Most people dont walk downtown now because of the amount of junkies.

[@dnrspdr03canadian95]

Just move over the bridge to Thornhill, the worst you have to deal with are the drunks but they aren't really a nuisance, the homeless rarely travel over the bridge, I feel safe walking anywhere in Thornhill at night but that might just be me being 6ft 4 and 210 lbs

[@joebaerwald9800]

Use to live there in the early to mid eighties. Beautiful place, but noticed ALOT of homeless there. I heard Vancouver bused alot of them from there and dropped them off in small commenities all over B.C.

[@raveneagleye2478]

I live in a small town (population 7,200) on Southern Vancouver Island. I'm exactly halfway between Victoria and Duncan. Crime in those two cities is awful. I'm so grateful their crime doesn't seem to be affecting us yet. Homelessness and drug addiction are the the main issues. Fortunately, rural farming communities are spared these problems.

[@tjm3900]

I lived in Ladysmith for over 20 years, most of that time my house was never locked Even when I was away.

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

@raveneagleye2478 methinks you're exaggerating a teensy bit....

[@raveneagleye2478]

@@ForceFreeTrainergirl06 How so?

[@AlanaBananaCanada]

Yeah mill bay is a pretty good area - I live in Duncan and I've never feared for my safety yet, although I never go anywhere risky. I moved from Victoria which is way worse so I guess it doesnt seem as bad.

[@chrisv924]

The homeless in Victoria and surrounding areas has exploded in the last few years… it’s gotten really bad.

[@holly9zz]

I’m from Wetaskiwin. I think every town on this list is close to an Indian reserve. The one south of me is a dry reserve so a lot of the people from there come to town to buy alcohol and then cause problems. It’s so bad.

[@monkey5644]

Cool water tower tho 🤟

[@Hustlenflo29]

I grew up in Thompson,Manitoba and I still have family there.One of the best decisions I made in life was moving away, it's just sad it took me 34 years to make that decision.I have many memories growing up in Princeton towers and living in Eastwood area, not all were good ones.

[@Upgraydez]

My cousins grew up there. My uncle was a bigshot geologist at INCO. I think my cousins were pretty sheltered away from it until they finally moved away. They don't talk about it but I can tell it was rough. We don't have alot of great options to live in Manitoba LOL. The stories I've from from ppl like urself. Long, dark winters, not much to do, limited police presence and ppl getting up to trouble.

[@davismcmoney5342]

I grew up there too, what a shit hole.

[@toddmotown2087]

Indians

[@daniellysohirka4258]

@@Upgraydez We stayed in Grey Wolf Bay houses when I was contracting for Major Drilling, that was the first time I tried crack. I did more drugs there then I did on my days off lol. I worked a 4 weeks on 2 weeks off schedule. We mainly worked at T-3 mine underground. I'm from Flin Flon, so it wasn't much different from besides being flat.

[@0gfjvih5]

my dad used to live there, the week he moved out of his old place somebody was murdered on his old front lawn. the police also found a body in the forest behind his work, so now every time someone goes missing thats one of the first places that gets searched

[@CnekYT]

Recently Canada released updated CSI scores and I have compiled every city into a Google Sheets document with their CSI scores -- I thought I should share some of my findings as they are pretty interesting - Since 2019, Thompson has overtook North Battleford for the total CSI Score, prob thus the reason why a 11 months ago I found Thompson had a significantly higher total crime rate; because since 2019 North Battleford has gone down in crime, becoming pretty similar to Wetaskiwin in crime - MacLean's did not include Fort McMurray, as whilst Fort McMurray is a city, it has jurisdiction over the nearby oil sands as the municipality of Wood Buffalo -- despite this, over 95% of Wood Buffalo residents live in Fort McMurray, so it is unfair to disclude it - On the same note as the most recent note, Fort McMurray would've been the worst city for crime in this list, as it had a CSI score of 610.50 in 2019. Currently it is the 2nd worst behind Thompson and ahead of North Battleford. Fort McMurray is so bad for crime that in 2011, Vice (the news organization) made a documentary just about how bad crime, pollution and poverty are in Fort McMurray - For some reason, MacLean's did not include any of the cities from the territories -- if included, Yellowknife would've made the list, having a CSI score of 236.68 in 2019. Currently it sits as the 7th worst - Since 2019: Selkirk, Grande Prairie, Terrace, Williams Lake and Quesnel have seen among some of the highest crime decreases in the country, although Selkirk has spiked again as of the most recent year - Since 2019: Penticton, Leduc, Timmins, Courtenay and New Glasgow have seen among some of the highest increases in the country - Iqaluit, Nunavut only has around 7.5k people so it wouldn't count, but I felt it would be interesting as like a sidenote as it would be the worst for total CSI at 538.22 -- although it sits decently below Thompson for it's violent CSI score If you are interested in seeing the up to date CSI ratings, I'd be more than happy to share as it took a decent bit of time -- as well I will include the territory cites (Yellowknife & Whitehorse), and include Fort McMurray

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

Nicely done! Some interesting changes for sure. I guess we better start working on a follow up video. :) Would love to see the document if you wish to share it.

[@terrylabiche7772]

...just found this. Very interesting 🤔. I live in Lac La Biche. Things aren't great here...

[@mikenagy938]

Don't know why you don't understand that as Trudeau takes away guns, crime goes up.

[@marilyncourteau8951]

I live in lovely crime-free Prince Albert......hmmmm

[@DLN-ix6vf]

what about Ontario ? or is this just on Cities/Towns policed by RMCP ?

[@hoboonwheels9289]

Small communities used to be great places to live, crime was almost non existent, there were dances, card parties, potlucks and church was central.

[@useyournoodle100]

So it must be the loss of the church that is causing all this right? I mean not the influx of drugs that the locals are oh so happy to use.

[@skachor]

​@@useyournoodle100 you couldn't have used your noodle for this take

[@charlenerathgeb8217]

Honestly, the same can be said for larger comminities, even cities. Our low crime in major cities were once the envy of the Americas. Sigh. Not because of church (but I do understand it was once central), but because of citizens visions of what is acceptable behaviour, it has changed dramatically. I can’t help but think Hollywood, with their violence, anger, sexual assaults etc, make these things more appealing to people now vs then

[@janmitchell641]

The naysayers here want to believe that it’s not the lack of church attendance, but people’s desire for drugs causing all the problems. Most people start taking drugs in their youth, when they are perhaps bored, or come from unhappy homes. When I was a teen drugs were not an option for me because I was very involved in a church youth group, sports, theatre, etc., but also because I was privileged to be in a lower to middle income, God honouring family (not a perfect family). No doubt poverty, abuse, and substance abuse in adults are big reasons their children get into drugs and crime. I believe that being part of something wholesome, like church, can make a huge difference in people’s lives, and I’ve seen people’s lives changed by it. The same can be said for being involved in community service, it doesn’t have to be a church, but giving your life over to something bigger than yourself.

[@ToddSauve]

@@charlenerathgeb8217 Well, any decent church would teach all of their congregation, right down to the youngest kids, that drug abuse is a great sin in God's eyes, not to mention all the other crimes which the Ten Commandments specifically prohibit. So just draw the lines from despising the words of God to crime ridden cities and towns. It doesn't take a genius. 🤷‍♂

[@Entername-md1ev]

Canada, Australia and New Zealand all seem to share a similarity with rural crime being far more prevalent than urban crime.

[@DavidM-hn8qq]

Most small towns in the Western provinces of Canada are VERY SAFE. I have visited most and lived in quite a few. The ones in this video have issues with no jobs, too much booze /drugs or trouble with local "Injuns" and a little known fact about Quesnel and Williams Lake is the street bum-scum of Vancouver was deported there by the gov't for the Vancouver 1986 Worlds Fair, and hasn't left.

[@deadnorth8648]

Well do your rich just chuck tax money at they...🤔

[@mikemcneil8268]

I think that the big cities in Canada do not put forward true stats ! Just so they look safer to attract new residents and tourists!

[@Alexander-gt4rc]

I was born and raised in North Battleford. Things were a lot different back then ('70s). It's sad to see what has happened but unfortunately you aren't allowed to talk about why that is so it isn't going to get better.

[@felixt1470]

Wonder why you are not allowed to talk about certain things. Does it have to do with a certain community committing the bulk of the crime??

[@buttondeity3933]

​@@felixt1470 North battleford is like a bakery.🥧

[@NonaPaskemin]

@@felixt1470 you means the ones getting caught? Native people aren't committing the bulk of the crimes, it's just there is always a spotlight on us no matter what we do.

[@Kraken_Mybutt]

you guys just aren't "reconciling" enough with the locals

[@janlafournaise6505]

I for one welcome you to talk about it. Just do it in a way that is respectful and that creates respectful dialogue. Political correctness only means, in this case, not talking about First Nations people in blaming, pejorative ways. It’s time for reconciliation. Let’s do it. Let’s stop the madness. Talk, talk, talk.

[@janejdough2230]

Langly Lethbridge Terrace Grand Prairie Selkirk Williams Lake Prince Albert Portage La Prairie Wetaskiwin Quenelle Thompson North Battleford significant FIRST NATIONS populations

[@displaychicken]

It’s sad. I have watched my small Canadian city of 40k people go from the safest, friendliest place you could imagine, to a meth-riddled hellhole with routine shootings and public machete attacks. All in the span of about 10 years.

[@crayola3]

public machete attacks? Canada? you must be joking.

[@tml9174]

We have had machete toting gangs in Calgary for over 30 years. Thanks Ottawa for your liberal immigration. The foreign gangs that have infiltrated our city and have open war-fare in mall parking lots has really escalated. And it's not because there aren't jobs and opportunities= it's because the liberals didn't vet the people they allowed into the country thoroughly, and let in criminals and gang members. They brought their way of life with them, and have just continued with it when they got here.

[@Kraken_Mybutt]

@@crayola3 usually in the large cities where these protected class of people "migrate" to is where you mostly see it

[@displaychicken]

@@crayola3it happened two weeks ago and it was actually a machete and bear spray attack. Not kidding!

[@matzrat5006]

You choosing to become a drug addicted creep , nothing to do with Trudeau . You are responsible for your actions .

[@JamesBCCC]

Notice how there are no entries from Eastern Canada? Why? Because the common denominator in all of these cities is indigenous crime. Each and every city/town listed has significant indigenous populations and you barely note this except in the portion on Thompson. Indigenous crime stats are a repudiation of centuries of the same failed approach of managing aboriginal affairs by Ottawa. Simply throwing money at band councils and expecting nothing in the way of progress in education and development. It is sad.

[@deadnorth8648]

And the overlords have been pushing them out of the east since the start... Who's the real racist in Canada, clearly Alberta and the rest put up with a lot from both sides of this... P.s 🖕🤡🖕Ottawa

[@ricladouceur6202]

Or the biased targeting of indigenous populations.

[@MemoryAmethyst]

I live in rural Nova Scotia very close to a micmaw reserve and they are almost all lovely people. I think that the reason there is less crime is because everyone is related and knows each other. If you were to drive your truck to commit a crime, half a dozen people would recognize you and your truck and wave and three people would stop you to chat. And if you were stupid enough to break into a home, all of auntie Edith’s relatives would make your life a living hell. Besides, the next family reunion would be awkward.

[@Pompomeranian7]

I've lived in NB for a while now. It's definitely rough here but it's honestly still less sketchy than the slummy neighborhoods I lived in Edmonton as a young person. The worst I've had happen in NB is a broken car window (nothing stolen) over a decade ago and some bags of cans taken from my backyard of my old rental house over 6 years ago. A lot of the crime here has to do with gangs and drug trafficking or theft of unlocked vehicles. If you aren't involved with sleazy people, you'll likely be fine so long as you lock your stuff up and have security for your home.

[@Stringbean1138]

NB and especially moncton area has been getting worse, but yeah still doesn't hold a candle to Saskatchewan.

[@johnpaskimin1897]

I’m from Red Pheasant Sk grew up in North Battleford my youth years . Lots of positive stuff use to go on than but now a days little different. Aho

[@Pompomeranian7]

@@Stringbean1138 I didnt mean New Brunswick. NB for North Battleford, my bad.

[@Pompomeranian7]

@@johnpaskimin1897 All in all it ain't the worst place I can think of to live, I'd say crimes down a bit from 2019. There's certainly a lot of room for improvement though. Rising cost of living is making things more challenging for everyone.

[@Stringbean1138]

@@Pompomeranian7 woops lol

[@Creepy_Cuckooclock]

I live in a town just an hour outside of North Battleford, and the crime can almost be felt in our small town still. Our police suspect that people from that place just drive out here, and then set out to steal a vehicle, place it in a field and then light it on fire. Things are worse in the city. You always keep your windows up, so people don't come and start trouble. Never roll your windows down in North Battleford to talk to anyone. Youth violence is a huge issue, also.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

I use to work in SK where I traveled occasionally, and visited many small towns. And 100% that is true. I was even told not to keep your dog outside as it might get stolen

[@Playingwith3D]

I grew up in a small town and can confirm we had a huge crime problem, I always said we were trying to get out of the shadow of big cities by being 10x worse.

[@rcchristian2]

Why do you think the crime rate is so high? Bad cops or lack of them? Unemployment ? Drugs? just curious

[@Playingwith3D]

@@rcchristian2 Boredom.

[@sherilynstarzko8116]

It’s bc they’re 90%+ natives that live in these places

[@brittanybecker170]

Saskatchewan has all the big city problems mixed with teh small town ones.

[@rcchristian2]

@@sherilynstarzko8116 said _"It’s bc they’re 90%+ natives that live in these places"_ I was curious to see if you were right but you are definitely wrong... most of these cities have white people as the majority... Terrace BC 67% white 21% indigenous 2%asian Grande Prairie 72% white 11% indigenous 7% asian Selkirk Manitoba 57% white 35% indigenous 4% asian Williams Lake BC 66% white 24% indigenous 4% asian Prince Alberta Sask 44% indigenous 43% white 5% asian Portage la Prairie 60% white 29% indigenous 3% asian Quesnel BC 79% white 13% indigenous 3% asian Thompson Manitoba 45% indigenous 39% white 9% asian North Battleford 57% white 26% indigenous 8% asian It's definitely not an indigenous issue. It's the white boys ... :P Maybe we should look at religion :)

[@Jesus.HChrist]

Small towns in Canada feel very much like the way bad neighborhoods in big cites like harlem or parts of detroit felt. As in nobody ever gets out. Because Canada is so spread out, the idea of leaving everything you know behind, even if everything you know sucks, can be impossible. So people stay and stagnate and get bitter and violent and it can compound so quickly

[@bruced1429]

how about naming these small towns. I bet you never lived in one . I live in a very great small town and it is just fine and people who left for work always come back .

[@billfarley9167]

As a Canadian who is now 90 years old and moved, lived worked all over Canada, I say BS. People stay because they either want to stay or too lazy, dumb to move.

[@brianbenoit6883]

@@billfarley9167 or don't have the money to get out.

[@rethacarriere2054]

Takes money to move.

[@claudethibaudeau2714]

Times sure are changing here in Canada. Very sad to see indeed. I'm 59 years old and I've seen so many stats and yes it's increased substantially. Here where I live, was a very dangerous city but the city did a huge clean-up and although we still have crime, it's lowered. Have an awesome day everyone

[@blazingstar9638]

I feel that! You too 😊

[@brando8086]

My hometown in the Okanagan has changed so much in the last 20yrs that it makes me sad when I go home for a vacation. Homeless camps and open drug use in the streets and way way way more crime. In the 90s we didn't have to lock any doors, garage or the house. What is happening to our country =(

[@ricgunn1439]

​@@brando8086Don't you believe in multiculturalism??? Are you racist???

[@angeleyes885]

Unchecked illegal immigration + demented liberal policies = Canada today.

[@PatientXero607]

@@brando8086 Yeah and pushed them up to Prince George. Now our city is pull of druggies that came from down there.

[@Peeta-wn4hh]

It’s shocking to hear that Thompson, Manitoba is, per capita, the most violent city in North America given the crime rate in many parts of Mexico.

[@HondoTrailside]

Yeah, that has to be BS. I don't believe it if he was leaving mexico out.

[@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus]

Crime statistics only include reported crime.

[@Tribuneoftheplebs]

​@@HondoTrailside in Mexico I imagine the crime is organized with certain groups on top that try to keep order. Northern Canada is just a lot of addicts with no jobs which will lead to chaotic random crime.

[@TheEstowrath]

Indians

[@Fiddlesticks52]

This is for Canada only

[@99skyroxx]

Small towns, small budgets, I guess, and here in Canada, we don't keep criminals in jail, automatic release for even repeat violent offenders.

[@jackfishcampbell6745]

No it's mostly indigenous crime in places like Thompson . This is BIG budget stuff . Places like Thompso are a huge drain on money , while still putting out big money from the mines . Thompson is full of zombified people .

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

The population of Grand Prairie is clearly not 12k as the video says. I forgot to change the population on the template I made. Everything else is good though. :)

[@karineradikal3451]

We even have a Costco here 😌

[@cindyboer1145]

Also, it's Grande Prairie with an -e lol. People are always sensitive about that here. Don't want to be confused by the Texas Grand Prairie

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

@@cindyboer1145 Gotcha! Thank you! Cheer to all of you in Grande Prairie!

[@peterlynley]

The problem with crime statistics is what does not get reported does not get recorded. I used to live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and worked as a security guard in a large shopping mall for 11 years. The amount of shoplifting there was insane. There was one woman who worked there who also has worked retail all across Canada because her husband got moved around because he was military and she said she had never seen anything like the level of retail theft anywhere else. Thing is most of it never got reported. It was a business decision; just write off the losses because the store would have to pay to send their employee to court as a witness and it wasn't worth it. They also did not want the liability of employees making the wrong call leading to getting sued for false arrest or possibly getting assaulted by the thief. There were also lots of assaults that did not get reported. Often both parties involved were just engaged in an ongoing dispute which often involved illegal activities so there was no way they wanted the police involved. I knew of a case of a kid who was acting tough and got a gun stuck in his mouth and had the facts of life explained to him. He said nothing for fear of retaliation. There was a "code of silence" involved....don't be a rat. If all these crimes were properly counted I am sure Dartmouth, Nova Scotia would definitely be in the top 10 for sure.

[@psychette8846]

The problem is that in the top 10 list there is also a large amount of crime that does not get reported. So if you think Dartmouth is bad because of unreported crime imagine the unreported crime in in the top 10. Might make you very happy to have lived in Dartmouth. There is a reason why eastern Canada and the maritimes did not make this list.

[@peterlynley]

I have lived in several other places in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and they were far better places to live than Dartmouth. In those other places I never felt the need to watch my back like I did in Dartmouth. It's actually rational to be slightly paranoid there. Dartmouth is it's own universe.@@psychette8846

[@erinalexandra9096]

Angus Ontario cops dont even attend incidents never mind report 😂

[@LeeirahBrashka]

Right! Include Moncton on that list too, in the past 5 years this place went from chill to guns, stabbing, kidnapping, human trafficking and so much more... and I ain't mentioning my home town of a few 1000 people. Because I might have to say they all are in organized crime or worse. I lived in a village where the cops don't go, for anything. It's just the way we live over there.

[@LeeirahBrashka]

@@erinalexandra9096 No ones shows up in Dartmouth either. we arent talking about Halifax area either, no we are talking about the city of Dartmouth. If you are a hockey fan: were Sydney Crosby's from. and if you go in Moncton, New Brunswick, is where an ahole killed three cops, so imagine what's not reported. As I remember there is just a handful of cop killing in Canada. Moncton is popular for that now... Dartmouth is worse even without killing cops, its nasty.

[@TheAlbertaChannel]

Wetaskiwin resident here ✋🏻 had my car stolen right out of my garage in the morning before work. I got it back like an hour and a bit later b/c I posted on Facebook that if anyone sees my car to call the cops. Found my car at the local Esso gas station and like 7 cop cars surrounding it 😄

[@judeaberdeen6848]

In Prince Albert the drug use here is pretty bad. In any shopping area theres a lot of homeless people begging for money and also passed out whereever they can sit. As a kid it wasn't this bad but when the government decided to stop allocating welfare benefits to rent for drug users the homeless situation shot through the roof. Thanks Scott Moe

[@Boxingbear]

People have told me that Nanaimo is pretty bad nowadays. Drug addiction is rampant, People get robbed at knifepoint all the time. The street people call Nanaimo ' The City With No Pity ".

[@sherilynstarzko8116]

Drug abuse is everywhere in canasiastan, every small town city n big city is rampant, drs caused the drug problem in the early 90s n now they legalized weed to wash the drs hands if it! Not there problem anymore?! N trudumb made the problems worse by being who he is!

[@fluffytail6355]

PA has been a craphole for 40 years. High indigenous population is a major contributor.

[@Teeglor]

Im from PA too and you’re absolutely right

[@juburr9750]

Can't even wear red or black in p aids lol

[@lyndsie92]

I lived in prince albert sk for a few years working as a 911 Dispatcher. It was a very interesting time in my life that has admittedly left me a bit jaded and paranoid. I no longer live there, I chose to settle to a very small and safe farming community about an hour away. The crime in PA doesn't have much to do with the people that live there. Prince albert is the gateway to the north, a very transient community. Members of northern communities poor into prince albert constantly with nothing to do and they wreak havoc on the citizens there. There is a lot of gang activity as well. If you live in PA you pretty much either work in the medical field or you work at a jail. The provinces 2 federal prisons are in PA. So the city attracts a lot of prison visitors from all over the province and attract many people from the north requiring medical attention. They get themselves here often with a few of their family members and they just sort of don't leave. They hang around the city with no jobs and victimize people and properties. Glad I don't live or work there anymore.

[@queenfrostbyte]

It's not getting better

[@wheelzwheela]

The mystery is not hard to solve. There is a certain population that is responsible for the majority of crimes. That population is growing and most of the crime is within that same population. These are the names of the gangs in Saskatchewan: Native Syndicate, Indian Posse, Crips, Saskatchewan Warriors and Redd Alert. You can draw your own conclusions.

[@fluffytail6355]

Facts speak for themselves

[@kevinhardy8997]

I know, we need more white people! Lol

[@finished6267]

no HA? weird. ok dude.

[@wbki-v7l]

These communities need a strong leadership team to come in and straightening things out. Jobs, housing, and community building desperately needed.

[@anotherinternetidiot6300]

Read a book sometime. It will help with the dumb.

[@cdk]

I lived in Thompson for over 20 years, the citizens have their own set of rules that must be followed or you are guaranteed to get violently assaulted by a group of people, two main rules, don't walk anywhere after 7pm (even in a small group is not safe) and avoid the T.I at all costs (unless you're a regular). the population balloons every summer due to the high amount of reserves around it, people migrate to the city to live homeless (even though they have homes in their respective towns) and drink. then in the winter, everyone goes home because its too cold (-40 average in Jan / Feb) or they die in an ATM lobby (True Story). Leaving that city was the best feeling ever!

[@garyfrancis6193]

What is T.I.?

[@jenniferh4248]

@@garyfrancis6193 Thompson Inn. Aboriginals cause 99% of the problem

[@jamesfrommanitoba.1992]

Thompson Inn hotel and bar.

[@jackstoker2238]

Cap

[@jackstoker2238]

lol jk born and raised and come on the T.I can be fun 😂 and safe!! It’s located right next to the cop station after all 😂😂

[@brendaramsbottom8693]

My family moved to Prince Albert in 1970 at that time it was a very nice and clean city. I moved away in 1994 and my kids grew up in a small community.... all of my sons live in small communities now as adults.

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

whats your point u got scared back in 1994 are u telling everybody your amedia bootlicker are u telling everybody your easy to scare wih fear mongering . or are u just saying shit for no reason

[@melaniejarrett2953]

Im from Sudbury and we have our problems but have lived all over Canada as a teacher. I have lived in BC, Alberta Sask and Manitoba and I always felt far more unsafe than in Ontario. Most of these problem cities are cities high in unemployment and higher in drugs /alcohol. Dont blame the Indigenous , they were forced to areas that are extremely isolated , have very high unemployment and generational trauma. In Ontario we are all too busy working 3 jobs to afford anything to be criminals. I literally taught on reserves near 6/10 cities mentioned here. I dodged some bullets.

[@billfarley9167]

Yep, me too.

[@carlober6852]

Christina Freeland keeps saying "Kanada is a triple A country." It should be triple J country for Job # 1, Job #2 & Job #3

[@brownshoeblues2014]

Leftist white women making excuses for minority crime is one of the reasons our Country is failing.

[@LeLoupLickhear]

Yup to blame is useless, detrimental to all parties involved or in vicinity..

[@myopinion6092]

exception Brampton and the immigrated

[@RB-im5mk]

Much appreciated, but I am already depressed. No one wants to start a business in a drug / crime town so nothing will change until the leaders make the change. These are local problems and the Feds are only throwing away our money.

[@AnnieT369]

Who live in these small towns. Show the inhabitants and we will know what the cause is.

[@derekpam7149]

Go to north battleford for your answer lol

[@skateboarding118]

Canadians

[@user-qs9hj4lr7r]

natives. the special people with get out of jail free cards.

[@daniel1122345]

Shitty police is a large part of the issue

[@amankhehra8718]

RCMP polices them

[@ronladuke7235]

Pretty sad world we live in. Makes me sick to see what’s happening to our country. I think to start we need to shut the revolving door to criminals and drug traffickers. There is known criminals with over 100 convictions and they keep putting back on the street until they’re convicted of rape or murder. Sickening.

[@iamcyberpunk68]

THANK TURDO MY FRIEND.

[@derekpam7149]

It’s called Jordan’s principle for natives. Trudeau needed votes so bad he will bend over for anyone but white oil workers.

[@useyournoodle100]

Do you think drug traffickers only come from other countries? There are plenty of home grown ones that you "close the door on".

[@vernonmcphee6746]

@@useyournoodle100 It appears to me that you have misinterpreted the "revolving door" reference. It has nothing to do with immigration but is more the"catch and release" approach to "justice" so prevalent today.

[@susantunbridge4612]

Social support is missing. Schools are terrible. And too many people drink too much. Alcohol causes societal rot.

[@darrencraig9263]

This current government has destroyed Canada, they have for a decade brought in over 500,000 immigrants a year but we are only creating new housing for 200,000 a year so the cost of housing has gone crazy and homelessness has gone crazy which in turn the crime rates have gone crazy.

[@306Grows]

Anytime we’d go up to PA for hockey tournaments the native teams would come to our hotels and slash our tires.

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

That's not good.

[@denniscote6415]

How do you know it's first nations teams.

[@rootofevil777]

*Lie. Stayed in PA (for hockey) many times. Never happened once. Majority of PA teams do not even have an abundance of indigenous players! And Sask Indigenous players are underrated and underrepresented. Period.

[@306Grows]

@@rootofevil777 lmao the stands were always full of yelling drunks. I remember the one game somebody’s blitzed “uncle” got arrested. Crazy place for sure 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@skyehorvath9063]

In the 70’s, the PA Raiders were the best Tier 2 Hockey team in Canada for over 15 years. Their biggest competition were the Moose Jaw Canucks, all series went 7 games with the Raiders always winning. As a Moose Jaw fan, we would travel in 2 fan buses to PA to watch our Canucks play The Raiders. While the buses were parked, they were monitored by 6 RCMP officers in 3 cruisers, so that they would not be destroyed, or blown-up. When it came time to leave Prince Albert, our buses were escorted at times to at least 50 miles South by the same RCMP. Because there were over 60 of us Canuck fans, they did not try to mess with us at the PA arena, they knew better. When the Raider fans came back to Moose Jaw, they were yelled at, but their lives and the bus safety were never at risk like our buses were in PA. Fast forward now 45 years later. Moose Jaw is now called Meth Jaw, and violent crime, and property crime are through the roof. Moose Jaw has become a nightmare, and a dump, but Prince Albert continues to be one of the biggest shit-holes in the entire world..

[@pierrelarocque3214]

Maybe you should compare the CSI score with the native population percentage.

[@gamefreak15185]

It's not native people killing eacother.. some are jealous I guess. Lol

[@FoxExcess]

@@gamefreak15185 It literally is natives killing each other.

[@brianyoung9806]

R2 = 0.99999

[@killercow444]

I'm from Quesnel and all of our issues are because of PG, Vancouver and the government. When Vancouver had the Olympics they thought it'd be a good idea to start just sending their homeless everywhere rather than dealing with it and since then Quesnel has been getting insane amounts of homeless people that are mentally ill and we don't have enough housing or help for them, they consistently rob our cars (if you live on the westside) and they even rob our stores, but things get worse when we talk about the cesspool of garbage called PG, those A holes cant keep their drug wars out of our town, we used to have a drug family making sure that drugs came in but that the town still stayed nice and safe but since they got arrested all the gangs from PG have started having their wars here because they want their town to be nice. lastly the government gives us no money to fix crap, our cops aren't allowed to arrest anyone for crimes, we legally cant defend our homes without getting sued by the intruder and since all these harsh drugs have been decriminalized bylaw cant even do anything about the people smoking crack in the center of downtown. I used to be able to walk downtown as a kid and there would be some normal homeless and stuff but now its only sketchy homeless people who look like their gonna pass out, are passed out, or are gonna attack you. like there used to be just nick and like a few other homeless but now we got like $5 or $10 (Jennifer), there's this old lady who always says she had the same car as me and then asks me for money or smokes but I'm like we have mental health and addictions go there to get help. my town is safe and beautiful we just get a bad wrap statistically cause all of the real bad areas lie about their crap were just honest that other towns are fighting their wars in ours so we essentially just get punished and shunned for asking for a bit of help.

[@dnrspdr03canadian95]

Exactly, I live in Terrace and so they assume because of LNG that the homeless will find opportunity, wrong lol

[@fluffytail6355]

Yep. Vancouver dropped off a shot load of homeless people all down the Fraser valley too just before the Olympics (Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Hope, Maple Ridge) - active addicts with $5000 in their hand and a one way ticket to these places for them to “find jobs.” Now these towns are full of Vancouver problems when they were previously free of these people before the Olympics. No resources for these people with their issues left them on our streets and the crime rate rose exponentially too.

[@MUTDEF]

Haha I know Nick, I see him all the time walking around.

[@car-less-ness6770]

Thank you for defending your community. This guy is just pissing on Western Canada.

[@collinmilward722]

I grew up in Pg. Did you notice that lot of those cities with high crime rate are the ones around pg

[@stama9]

I lived in east asia from 2004-2014 and never felt like I was in danger. My biggest reverse culture shock was coming back to my own country, Canada, and constantly on the lookout for getting robbed and assaulted. People have tried to rob me just walking around, try to break into my home, and seriously assaulted friends of mine. It's very sad what Canada has become. I don't care which side takes care of this left or right, but something has to be done.

[@emilyeggert-botkin5090]

Quesnel is my hometown! It certainly wasn't perfect when I was growing up, but the homelessness and crime rates have skyrocketed in recent years. So sad to it going downhill :(

[@kellyevans3254]

I live in terrace, we have a huge problem with homeless people and drug abuse. When I was a kid the town was safe enough that I could go to the corner store at night unsupervised, now I don’t want to leave my house after dark. If the criminal is First Nations our police won’t do anything about it, I know a guy who was assaulted on his property by a homeless First Nations man and the police cuffed him, not the homeless attacker. Our police force has been neutered and can’t put the druggies and other criminals in prison where they belong.

[@jayd5360]

Sounds about right, just like every other city on the list. The common denominator is Natives!

[@thasolution7007]

True. Definitely don’t go out at night here

[@dnrspdr03canadian95]

Yeah Terrace is a shit show, you should definitely move into the Thornhill area, the most we have to deal with across the river are the drunks but even then they don't really bother you, the homeless rarely travel across the bridge and even more rarely come into the neighbourhoods.

[@kellyevans3254]

@@dnrspdr03canadian95 yeah, I’ve come across a few homeless in thornhill, but my house is too far from any of the liquor stores for them to wander.

[@zsnation2130]

Our beautiful town of terrace gets worse and worse.....

[@murraybrown855]

Great video, exposing the hard truth about small town crime where native populations are prevalent. There is no easy solution to this.

[@MsSquirl00]

They are also conservative areas as well.

[@reneguay1347]

Yes there is stop giving them money and let them go to work like the rest of us

[@user-do1wj9zp5n]

The thing about the crime rates in the smaller towns is that the rates don't take into account people from the outlying areas that come into the town, commit some type of crime - which then gets added to that towns crime statistics, then go home to the outlying area. The rates would be different if the people in the surrounding areas were accounted for in the crime statistics for the towns themselves.

[@car-less-ness6770]

Very well said! Crime from the cities has moved to smaller communities b/c the RCMP would rather be doing shooting targets in the garbage dump then patrolling the streets. Look at the RCMP in small towns in BC. In Sparwood, BC the dispatch doesnot take the calls and tells the callers to F...O...

[@scumbagjay_]

As somebody from wetaskiwin crime here has increased significantly since this video our csi last year was 367 almost 100 more than 2 years ago it’s getting out of hand here with homeless and gang members

[@scumbagjay_]

Plus our neighbouring reserves are facing insane gang violence daily shootings stabbings and murders drugs are really prevalent in these communities too, very sad to see. Our neighbour Maskwacis’ csi shot up to 756, its heading into the direction it once was heading away from back in 2008 when it had a csi of 2819 and a violent crime severity index of 4929 which is insane

[@FailedBard]

It's unfortunate, since Wetaskiwin's not that bad a place to live, or at least, was decent for the 8 years I lived there before moving away 9 years ago. Do most the stolen cars still end up getting found on fire on the reserve, or did the Maskwacis cleanup efforts cut down on that?

[@sherilynstarzko8116]

Ya: n they’re the ones crying n protesting “ save our land” they’re the ones trying to stop the pipelines, but burn down vehicles n use tires as wood for their campfire party’s !!

[@scumbagjay_]

@@FailedBardfrom what I’ve seen and heard most stolen cars are stolen by people that live in the county or don’t live in wetaskiwin at all kind of like a smash grab because Highway 2A and Highway 13 go through it so theres a lot of traffic and opportunity for car thieves

[@amandabeaty1492]

I live in an arm pit right outside of Edmonton. I used to live in the city and I never had my car broken into. While being in Devon, about 20 mins outside of Edmonton, my car has been broken into at least 3 times. My brother has had his car broken into at least two or three times. I know numerous people who've had their gas tanks drilled into. The town has a population of 2,000. Even though it's a short jaunt to the city, unless you have a car, there's no way to get there. I'm bored to death living here. I can't imagine what it's like being 16.

[@greatmatt301]

I will say, it usually depends on where you live in a town. I grew up in Wetaskiwin, we have a pretty bad reservation 10 minutes to the south. The north end of town was amazing. Super chill, never felt unsafe walking at night. We lived in the south end for a whole three months and that was enough to show us we NEVER wanted to live there again.

[@UnhingedCanadian]

Basically in western Canada as long as you’re about 100km plus away from any native reserve you’re pretty safe. Inside that and you can physically watch the area deteriorate the closer you get to the reserves.

[@malcontender6319]

Bedsheets up in the windows, curtains out covering the garbage. Wall studs burned in a bonfire party years ago. Doors spiked with nails facing outward... And that's just the western ones, I hear Sheshatshiu in Lab is particularly hellish.

[@UnhingedCanadian]

@@malcontender6319 u forget the most delapitated cars you’ve ever seen parked out front. Lawns not mowed. Paint falling off the houses. Like 1 general store that looks like you’d catch 20 diseases just by walking inside but you’d have to get past the 3-6 toothless bastards that prob try to mug you first. lol.

[@ryanstewart4444]

Despite 70% of Canadians living east of the Manitoba/Ontario border, 100% of the Towns on list are west of that border. Well done on pronouncing Quesnel properly. I live 200km North of Whitehorse so I laughed at calling Terrace and Thompson "North". Thanks for that.

[@etiendre]

Quesnel is a French word and should be pronounced “K-Nel” in my opinion

[@ryanstewart4444]

@@etiendre As a chef, 100% agree and that's how I pronounce it in that setting. When I lived in BC, Kwi-Nell is the proper pronunciation.

[@reddeercanoe]

I suggest you check your data Quebec and Atlantic provinces have a smaller population than the prairies and BC.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

I laughed when he said "throwing money at the problem," which means giving police more money to "address violent crime," which means, give themselves a raise. This method has failed constantly through my whole life, but any attempt to suggest spending a tenth of that amount to address the causes and roots of crime are shouted down by people convinced that next time, if we give the cops a hundred million, they'll kick ass. Why Canadians always want to imitate America to solve problems is beyond me.

[@ryanstewart4444]

@@reddeercanoe Ontario, Quebec, NL/Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI = 64% of total population. Sure, I was off by 6 percentage points when I did my rough math. Well done, I stand corrected.

[@Porscheman1]

All these places have a high percentage of Natives.

[@ladyfeatherjane]

I moved from Vancouver BC to a small New Brunswick village and i have never felt so unsafe. The crime is off the charts and never changes because everyone is related and refuses to do anything about it. I'm moving back to Vancouver so i can feel safe again- go figure.

[@HoundDogFlash]

You are full of it, These populations are not big enough to support crime this channel is proposing. I don't know what you call crime but I would like to clarify something to you... Breaking the law and committing a crime are two sperate things.

[@ouroboricscribe3201]

@@HoundDogFlash Did you not pay attention in school? The people that break the law are criminals. When one commits a crime, one becomes a criminal. You just proved the person's point, people refusing to hold criminals accountable.

[@williamharris8367]

The first mistake was moving to a small community in the Maritimes! I grew-up in this region (my family arrived in the 1760s) and I am still unwelcome in some small communities; it can take generations for someone to be fully accepted. Your grandchildren may be welcomed; your great-grandchildren will definitely be.

[@proudcanadian2941]

If ur talking about st anthony new brunswick then yep theres a fuck ton of theft and crime going on

[@outcomethewolves19]

I also live in NB and fully agree. Crime is getting bad here

[@iancanuckistan2244]

None of the cities were east of the prairies. I find that extremely hard to believe.

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

Was true. No city east of Manitoba made the top ten at the time of this video.

[@iancanuckistan2244]

@@AJMSTUDIOSvideo That's one weird statistic. I wonder what the odds are considering how much larger the population is in eastern Canada.

[@loganholmberg2295]

Prince Albert is NOT "remote" in Saskatchewan. Its high crime rate is due to a lot of poor Aboriginal People. Like its in most Canadian cities. If we can ever figure out how to actually solve Indiginous poverty and drug related problems in Canada we would see a dramatic drop in crime. Not that its really all that high anyway. You can walk just about any of the cities at night and not be mugged or assaulted unless you are doing something with drugs and.or alcholoe.

[@tertur2957]

Aboriginals have to do it for themselves. Case closed.

[@jw-hy5nq]

Almost every place on this list is due to the proximity of the reserves and the way the band pushes their problems onto the nearby towns.

[@Ontariosound]

Was in Prince Albert recently. Liquor stores (some of them) are open 8am to 3am….. And the downtown is virtually empty.

[@ToddSauve]

People who live on reserves have to start their own churches and teach people the fear of God as they are growing up. That is the crux of the problem and will never change until people do just as I said.

[@Sisterlisk]

Aren't natives offered free education?

[@RussianOldSpice]

I drive for a living across Canada and I can tell you the problem is getting worse and worse not better this country is collapsing

[@harmony331000]

I’m born and raised in central Alberta (70’s) in a bigger medium sized city & it’s beyond sad, horrifying, & scary what’s happening to this beautiful country , I don’t recognize it & it is just getting worse and worse & it wasn’t like this at all! I felt lucky & grateful for living here but since about 2018…ish, it been this unbelievable nightmare, it’s devastating & unrecognizable.

[@frenzii3522]

Always and will always love that place (Grande Prairie) . But I'll never forget waking up at 12 years old to go to school, and having to walk past the rotary house thing that they have there, (basically tent city where the homeless get pushed into to keep them out of the way of the rich oil people). One morning in particular I remember seeing a young woman (maybe 20-25) in the freezing -35 degree windchill in nothing more than a tank top being arrested, a needle dug into her arm above the cuff. My mom said nothing, just told me and my brother to look away. I Just remember thinking how cold she must be. Not to mention the hundred others lined up in tents (overflow from the shelter) behind her.

[@annetteslife]

I knew my city, which is Lethbridge, made that list! The crime here over the last 20 years has skyrocketed really badly

[@hyperjump1169]

Methbridge lmao

[@annetteslife]

@hyperjump1169 yup! We should nickname it Crackbridge as well. It is both the meth and crackheads that are breaking the law here.

[@clintolner4348]

I’m amazed Ontario didn’t have any towns listed. I was 100% sure my town was going to be in the top 3

[@-suphur]

I was suprised that every one was out west. I too thought that some town out this way would rank up there.

[@jg8060]

Brampton?

[@alextaylor8776]

Thunder Bay?

[@-suphur]

@@alextaylor8776 This is a list of small towns, under 100 000.

[@-suphur]

@@jg8060 This is a list of small towns, under 100 000.

[@h.calvert3165]

North Battleford is surrounded by six reserves. When I lived there 33 years ago, drunken Indians were lying in the gutters at 9:00 in the morning as you went to work. Little Native children running barefoot & filthy in the streets even in October, never in school. And yet, I never heard anyone say anything against Native neighbours who held jobs, mowed their lawns, kept their kids clean & well-fed, were good guys. So, despite the criminal element, no racism. I'm sad about the status it has now because, despite any crime, it was a good place to live. Lots of trees, good vibes, nice people. 😢

[@SnowTiger45]

Sadly, Alcohol is either directly or indirectly related to the vast majority of the crimes in the Northern Locals and among the Indigenous. In fact, a huge percentage of All Police calls in North America are directly or indirectly due to alcohol.

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

You aren't wrong.

[@nicoleshaw9138]

I grew up in Wetaskiwin in the 80's .. I dont remember it being so unsafe that I couldnt roam the streets at night.. I remember a little crime, but I felt safe for the most part.. Perhaps I was just innocent or naive... What I hear about it now makes me sad..

[@basedworldbillionaire-]

The 80s was 45 yrs ago wetaskiwin grimy now

[@user-lr3qg1lf1u]

I live in Wetaskiwin today. It's mostly gang related crimes. It's not the homeless population causing issues.

[@user-lr3qg1lf1u]

This city has changed big time. Been here since 81.

[@billfarley9167]

Hobbema is the largest Reserve, but I believe there are 4-5 more around Hobbema.

[@user-lr3qg1lf1u]

@billfarley9167 There are 4 bands of indigenous peoples. Montana,Erminskin,Louis Bull and Samson. The new name is Muskwacis. No longer Hobbema.👍

[@hellekimery9537]

I live in Lethbridge, number two on the list, and it’s gotten so bad here,due to drugs and surrounded by reservations! No one willingly goes downtown after dark, that I know…

[@GetIntoYourLife]

Keep checking the classifieds for a better job

[@aidanbommarito1747]

Great production value as always! I still can't believe you don't have more subscribers.

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

Thank you so much! I am not sure what else to do to draw in more people other than keep trying. :D

[@dellmarlapratt3833]

Just on another note I live near wetaskiwin and I lived in nb and I lost alot of friends over the years, i changed in my 20s i saw who was all involved and it doesn't start in those cities it starts on the reserves who are pushing it through those cities

[@brianbenoit6883]

I live in Wetaskiwin. Had 2 vehicles stolen. Both times by white guys. Basically the folks from the reservation keep getting busted for public intoxication and/or panhandling. The white folks are the ones who commit the actual crimes.

[@BSDShoes]

Small towns commonly being rampant with crime, it sure is, I grew up in small towns in Alberta and even the people that run them are corrupt and crime ridden. Lived in Grande Prairie for a while before moving to BC during my hockey career, people sure aren't nice there, worst experience I've had. And there were A LOT of theft after the 2017-2018 oil industry layoffs, especially copper theft.

[@spiro2061]

lol i grew up in gp and it’s not that great. sure better than being from ontario though 😂

[@ningningnaekke]

8:08 I Just moved to Canada and without knowing to PA, im completely shocked . I'm from Ukraine myself was seeking shelter since Canada opened this CUAT program, but im devasted and shocked it seems there is no law and protection here, i was living there for less than 2 months and my bike was stolen and people just treated it so normally ....

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

I am sorry that happened to you. :-\

[@onewisedre]

No one steals bikes in Ukraine?

[@myopinion6092]

so go home

[@DailyWordsofWisdom888]

I was staying at a place overnight one time just outside of Saskatoon and almost got mugged by Sasquach.

[@THE_rat474]

In a town or just on the outskirts of Saskatoon?

[@kylegoyak]

I was born and raised in Thompson. And i love how all of the pictures of it were of the East end of town which is the bad end. The homeless population is so high because alot of homeless people from outlying nearby reserves make their way to Thompson and dont leave.

[@nene3857]

Why don't they stay on their bloody reserves, grow some balls, and try to make something decent out of their lives? No motivation or ambition, why are those people like that?

[@amankhehra8718]

@@nene3857probably trying to copy the white folk who were ahead of the curve on becoming homeless in nice cities in canad

[@sherilynstarzko8116]

- @nene ::: if your gov supported you monthly with everything you needed , would you go out there and bust your a$$ working ? Like normal ppl do

[@edparadis6685]

those stats are really accurate about mantobia's small town etc.. only getting worse here in Mantobia sadly especially in Winnipeg. No surprize about Thomson either sadly. its not that friendly of a town no more and its be told that if your going that way to avoid thompson now or just stop and get gas and go

[@AJMSTUDIOSvideo]

It's unfortunate how much the area has changed even over the last 20 years. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

[@edparadis6685]

I'm not shocked that Morris or Steinach isn't in the top ten never mind the top 20.

[@brando8086]

It's getting worse all over the country for the most part.

[@tmac9972]

All of these towns are west of Ontario in Western Canada and they all have one thing in common that this video does not discuss.

[@kennettle]

Aboriginal people.

[@Alexander-gt4rc]

And you didn't either which is good since you don't want to get arrested for pointing out the obvious.

[@curtishand6180]

​@@Alexander-gt4rcarrested? this is KZbin. at best a shadowban

[@mustwereallydothis]

I suspect that the disproportionate distribution of crime statistics in rural Canada has a lot to do with the fact that most small towns in Canada are policed by the RCMP. If someone commits a crime in rural Canada and the RCMP become involved, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of how long their family has lived in the town who their parents and grandparents might be or how much money they have. I don't think that's always the case in small towns south of the border. Also, in small, Canadian towns, even minor crimes are much more likely to be reported to police and the perpetrators are more likely to be apprehended, charged and prosecuted.

[@HansJuergBangerter]

RCMP are Turdope's SA troopers...crimes goes up where Libtards and NDP are in power also RCMP is a corrupt policedep and grooming the mass shooter in NS was done by RCMP for the Turdope gun grap...

[@joywebster2678]

Ummm in Ontario, Quebec, and Nfld rural,policing is done by provincial police forces, we have little to do with the RCMP. And yes in the north of evry province we have extensive reserves adding that challenge to policing.

[@mustwereallydothis]

@@joywebster2678🙄 ummmm.... how many of the towns on this list were in any of those provinces?

[@joywebster2678]

@mustwereallydothis your comment states " towns in Canada are policed by RCMP." I added info for thosexwith don't realize still that the RCMP doesn't police on the ground in all provinces. So what is yourvproblem, don't like being clarified?

[@mustwereallydothis]

@joywebster2678 I am aware of what my comment says. You need to work on your reading comprehension.

[@michaelhofer954]

I moved to the city of thompson in 2000 and believe it or not i love it here in the north. Im from Toronto.

[@how2137]

What do you like about it? Genuinely curious.

[@billfarley9167]

"I'm from Toronto. "Better to keep that to yourself dude. Especially in Alberta.

[@michaelhofer954]

@@how2137 the outdoors. Wilderness

[@amankhehra8718]

@@billfarley9167Are the people such miserable shits they get angry at people from diff parts of the country? Sounds like fucking shit in alberta

[@stockpilethomas7900]

In Canada 100 000 is considered a City. The city I live is 58000. My home town is about 900. That what I considered a small town.

[@shahonchen6661]

Wow! I am from Hong Kong, we considered a population of 7.5 million as a medium size city in the Far East!

[@stockpilethomas7900]

@shahonchen6661 The province I live in, the capital city over 750000 people . The population of the province is about 1.4 million . Lot of small rural towns . Population of Canada about 40 million.

[@gradyeilers7533]

@@stockpilethomas7900mb?

[@barrybegley5379]

I noticed that Ontario, Quebec and eastward are Not mentioned on your list. Does that suggest that these Provinces are a safer living bet? Greetings from Ontario, Canada.

[@brunswicker77]

I lived in the Maritimes and Quebec. They're pretty safe. Sure Montreal has a few rough areas in the East of the Island but otherwise it's okay. Quebec City is probably the safest city in the country for it's size. And small towns in Quebec are lovely and stress free, unlike in the West apparently. In the Maritimes, some parts of Moncton are shady, but in general it's a perfectly safe part of the country.

[@Alexander-gt4rc]

The short answer is yes.

[@frakismaximus3052]

Both provinces have far lower percentages of indigenous populations

[@skachor]

Idk about the indigenous connection people are making, but I have to wonder how much of this has to do with the more tolerable winter weather in the west. Vancouver winters are a joke compared to the rest of the country, some seasons we didn't even see snow stick. Plenty of drivers between bc, ab, sk and mb. But after mb, it's a very long haul to eastern provinces. Idea being it's an area where homeless and addicted people could potentially reach most easily since they can't go south without a passport.

[@brunswicker77]

@@shahonchen6661 I've never witnessed any form of discrimination against Asians in Quebec. Visiting that province is indeed a different experience for an unilingual anglophone than visiting Ontario or Alberta, because of the linguistic and cultural barrier, but you will absolutely not experience racial discrimination. You should visit !

[@melodymurakami4114]

Im sorry guys. No gender. No race. No province. No city. No age. IS safe from being a victim from crime. Cost of living, drug addiction, alcoholism, joblessness, homelessness, gang activity - do not point fingers at particular races as not particular one can be ruled out

[@user-wb4ns9xc4s]

Must be just a coincidence then? Open your eyes and accept the truth, things need to change and you can yell racism all you want but that wont change the truth.

[@johnmclure981]

Indegenous gangs you know it I know it supplied by bikers and organized criminals . stop being a politically correct karen . and not enough cops and a revolving door trudeau justice system and your not allowed to defend yourself . That's so uncanadian . All the missing indegenous women and girls are being preyed upon by their own people . But the trudeau goverment wants to blame it all on the white guy .

[@MaryJane-qq9mm]

There was a lot more than one homicide in Quesnel. And woman go missing from Quesnel, or are found dead in suspicious circumstances, yet cops deem it not suspicious. Like my friend I met at the dr. She was so severely over weight and struggled to walk from the vehicle into the office, and room to room. Yet she was found dead in the Pinnacles Park and was written off as not suspicious!! Yeah she definitely wasn't out there for a hike. Someone dumped her out there. And healthcare for certain people's is denied, resulting in the death of young adults. Again no investigation. That's the Quesnel standard. It's all swept under the rug. They don't have to provide proper healthcare. It's definitely the wild wild West and the corruption is within the government systems! I could go on and on here all day! I spent 10years stuck out there and was blessed by The grace of God, to make it back home alive! Also you can watch an interview with Lonnie Landrud, a man who witnessed the RCMP kill a young woman some years ago, at the same time Dena Bram went missing! Again no charges laid and no proper investigation! Who investigates when the suspect is the one's who are supposed to uphold the law and investigate? We wound up leaving when our whole family was under threat by our east Indian landlord. And the man he hired to stalk our house, told my husband and said not to worry he was on our side. This man was murdered shortly after we left. There was other unsuccessful attempts on his life but in the end they got him. He was a good man. He had a family just like ours and young children that will never get to see their father again, and a grief stricken wife who's now struggling to hang in there. Our whole front yard was covered in gravel and cement the day we left. And just a few days before a cop came to my door wanting to do a welfare check on me. He seemed like a decent cop. But you can't trust anyone out there. How do so many others get away with the shit they do to other people? It's no secret! Everyone knows! So why would they let people like this commit serious crimes in the community, and launder the money through real estate? And even lease from him? Government agencies like axis and community living were leasing his properties as well.. Turns out he lost our house and some other properties after we left. Because he committed real estate fraud to attain these properties! He had some sort of immunity! Allowed to deal drugs in the North and do whatever he wanted.. The corrupted system there runs so deep there's nowhere to turn when your life is under threat because you don't know which ones are good and which are bad. Living there was a nightmare from beginning to end. I wouldn't recommend anyone move there. But people do all the time and have to learn the same way I did! I had no clue how fukd up one small town could be! Insanity!

[@FoxExcess]

Not to be a dick, but how is a person going to dump a body that big by themselves? She must have walked to some degree, maybe she was forced to. But there's no way one person is going to be able to dump someone that big alone. There was either multiple people involved or she was killed pretty close to the dump site. Anyways, sorry bout your friend, that sucks. And ya, east indian landlords are a menace where I live too. Slumlord deluxe with those cheap bastards. Everything you wrote about them using real estate to launder money is true. We have a huge problem with the Chinese doing this as well.

[@claytonjanzen506]

Being from and living in Saskatchewan I can say Prince Albert and North Battleford aren't always enjoyable to visit. One of my last visits to Prince Albert included two very inebriated women fighting amongst themselves in the parking lot of a grocery store. I do have friends that have grown up in both cities and they've always held "street cred" very high it's as if they grew with a completely different view of the law. A lot crime spurs up before winter so that some people have a warm place to stay in these parts. Alcoholism is rampant to the point some people are drinking mouthwash and Lysol. Most of the fast food restaurants in Prince Albert have black lights and or lockable entrances to their bathrooms to deter injectable drug use. One extremely important fact about Prince Albert is that is has two large detention facilities and a Penitentiary. North Battleford is two hours away from Prince Albert and it's an easy to catch a ride in-between them. Rent is comparitively cheap in both cities, meaningful employment is limited. Most of the people committing these crimes in those cities also dont have legal addresses in them so the numbers are heavily skewed as well.

[@fluffytail6355]

Exactly. Not to mention the high indigenous population in both those places which has a lot to do with the drug and alcohol abuse as well as unemployment (government gives them money so they gave cash for vices and no incentive to work)

[@user-jf7ud4fo2s]

85 billion to fund first nations in Canada results in 80% of this crime (maybe more). It is sad and more money is the government solution (when it should be more education and more jobs)

[@SumBrennus]

I am from North Battleford. Frankly, I hate it so much that I wish it were on Russia's or China's top Nuclear Target List. Probably isn't, but one can dream of a radioactive mushroom cloud enveloping the whole city and feel a sense of safety and satisfaction. When Saskatchewan was formed from the North West Territories in 1905 Battleford was the Capitol of the NWT. The Capitol of Saskatchewan became Regina. Prince Albert got the prison, Saskatoon got the University and North Battleford got the nut house. Outside of my absolute and enduring hatred for the entire province of Manitoba (because, let's be real here IT'S MANITOBA!) North Battleford is the worse place in Canada. Period. DO NOT VISIT -50 trillion stars out of Ten on Yelp. Avoid if you want to live.

[@Wehrmacht3GD]

Wetaskiwin is my home town. For a town of 12k it has 15 liquor stores and just as many pawn shops. If your stuff was stolen its likely in one of the pawn shops. When i was in K-9 school there were needles and other drug paraphernalia found in the playground often enough. One time during gym we were outside and found a drunk guy in the dumpster.

[@Kodykenway]

Maskawacis Alberta has a CSI score of 997.99. La Loche Saskatchewan has a CSI score over 1143. How do these two small towns not make your list? Nunavet has even higher crime rates.

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

nunavut has high crime rates because of the insanely small pop. genius .. 3 murders in a comunity of a 1000 is going have a higher crime rate then a community with 100k doe sit really make that small community a more dangerous place to live how so because someone killed in the drug trade . because a murderer was arrested and went to jail

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

Growing up, I played against the Maskwacis (formerly called Hobema) minor hockey team. It’s a wild town. The rink quite literally has a cage on the top of the glass due to people in the stands previously jumping over the glass to attack the players (which most of the time are children). Parents of some of the players have been punched in the head while watching the game.

[@sherilynstarzko8116]

Remember in 2006-9 ? How bad hobema was? U were scared to drive through that place bc u didn’t know f a bullet was going to come through your window or you’d b shot f u stopped to grab a pop? Every second day there was a shooting on the news , even little kids were being shot!!

[@sherilynstarzko8116]

Isn’t Nunavut mostly Eskimo?

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

@@sherilynstarzko8116 your such a huge liar their was nowhere near 100 shootings every any year let alone one every 2 days . nobody ever felt that way but silverspoon fed zombies any city in america is 10x as bad. their wasnt even 100 shootings in that 3 year period the violence was almost always targeeted as in crim on crim

[@verntoews6937]

Winkler Manitoba's police chief in a city of 13,000 recently announced cancellation of their annual bike auction as there were rarely any bikes stolen I was born at Winkler hospital 1958. ( Dr Wiebe)

[@WillyWall1990]

I've been to almost every place in this video because of the work I do (construction) and I've actually never had anything happen to me. A farmer in North Battleford that we did some work for had been robbed on more than one occasion though and one of my co workers was in a convenience store in Falher Alberta as it was getting robbed. That one turned out to be some teens with a plastic gun 😂

[@optophobe]

In laws lived in North Battleford, wife grew up there and I lived there for a couple years. When we visited we had to park the car in the garage (we'd "pre-book" the space). Otherwise, parked on the street you ran a good chance of someone breaking into your car, especially with out-of-province plates. Most in-laws had their cars broken into when they visited. They had their house broken into 3 times in 5 years, and got their property damaged on a regular basis including several spraypainted swastikas on their garage door for some unknown reason. When we stayed at a hotel once I got my 2 year old car keyed its whole length, from headlight to the taillight in the parking lot. There are lots of gangs and drugs. At night you have to actively avoid getting into a fight because lots of drunks and drugged up people looking to swap fists. Drunk drivers are commonplace. Lots of people asking for money. Lots of racism that goes both ways (50% native) so you're treated differently based on your race ("us" or "them" attitude). Lots of stores and shops have closed over the past 25 years and there are many empty buildings. It's a shame because the city was actually very nice up to the 90s. All these western Canadian cities are under the watch of the RCMP.

[@khenzy2023]

All true, I’ve lived in Battleford for 7 years now.

[@jayd5360]

50% native. Hmmm, wonder if that has anything to do with crime rates being high!!!! LOL like every other city mentioned on the list! Must be a torso coincidence!!

[@fluffytail6355]

They don’t call it BATTLEford for nothing

[@mienafriggstad3360]

I disagree; we have lived in North Battleford (Riverview) for over 9 years. The only time our van was broken into was when my kids forgot to lock it.

[@optophobe]

@@mienafriggstad3360 I'm glad you find it safe but there may be more crime in certain areas of the city. My in-laws lived east-side, in the area of St Mary's school. In terms of the house and car break-ins and vandalism I'm not making any of it up. It was that bad. Usually they'd smash a side window of the car or break the door jamb of the house. So much property crime. I did enjoy my time there and have very good memories. The downtown was quite alive and vibrant. Back when Pinder's was still downtown we'd hang out at the arcades, ate at Nino's, the Capri or the Ponderosa and avoided the Beaver. Not sure what happened to the city but it's sad to see so many empty buildings today. I think there's hope for the city because it has very good, friendly and smart people but more efforts need to be made to remove the bad elements and keep them off the streets. They once caught one guy who'd broken into the house in about the year 2000. He'd tried to spend my FIL's collector coins at the 7-11 while buying cigarettes. The clerk was suspicious and called the police so we got some of the coins back. They charged him but never got him to trial and that is exactly the reason the problems persist.

[@eddyrapide]

One thing that always make me wonder: In lists like this of Canadian small-town crime problems, why do communities in the northern territories never show up? Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River, Iqaluit, Whitehorse, Dawson City-they don't appear in such lists. So clearly it's not only about being small and northerly. What is it that these territorial towns are doing right?

[@dnrspdr03canadian95]

I live in Terrace and the problem is this, majority of the homeless aren't from the town itself, because of a massive LNG plant in Kitimat, it offers a lot of high paying jobs and so the provincial government thinks that it can reduce crime by sending all the homeless from remote, unproductive or too expensive to live in cities to my small town because it expects them to get a high paying job and believe that they can live in a slightly more affordable environment which is far from what they actually do, they'd rather form ragtag gangs and vandalise, drink, get high, steal or just loiter around public areas whilst harrassing the public.

[@eddyrapide]

@@dnrspdr03canadian95 These kinds of rumours about the transport of homeless people to one community or another have been popping up now and again for a while. Sounds like baloney to me. If it's so, I'd like to see some evidence. Frankly, I suspect that homeless people are making their own decisions about where to set up.

[@car-less-ness6770]

This evaluation is skewed to towns that are chosen by a certain population number. The smaller towns are not included. Only the cities within specific parameters are rated here. Also, RCMP are corrupt, more so in smaller towns where favours are established with the "small town crooks". RCMP are usually transient. They do not care b/c they can screw up and then, just be moved on. Every law enforcement person has a "power urge" even though the members of RCMP are taught to be prejudice. The Regina entry examination has revealed to me that some members are exempt from harrassment while others are targetted by RCMP hatred.

[@Crazyced]

Check out the comment from @CnekYT

[@IronOxideArt]

Too far north for homelessness, you travel south if you're homeless. The distance between places and difficulty getting there, lack of sunlight in winter, freezing temperatures, and extreme cost of basically everything, makes it a place you survive...not somewhere you build a life of crime 😅