Open in full screen mode The crime rate violent crimes committed with firearms reached its highest rate since 2009 in Canada in 2022. Speech synthesis, based on artificial intelligence, makes it possible to generate spoken text from of a written text. Canadian police forces recorded approximately 14,000 violent firearm crimes in the country in 2022, representing a rate of 36.7 such crimes per 100,000 population, or 8.9 % more than in 2021, reports Statistics Canada. This is also the highest rate of violent crimes committed with a firearm have been recorded in Canada since comparable data began to be compiled in 2009, notes the federal agency. According to analysts, based on data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program and the Homicide Survey< /em>, it is essentially in Ontario that the increase in violent gun crime has been most marked. The province's police forces recorded 4,791 such crimes in 2022, or 70% more than the year before. Start of widget. Skip widget ?End of widget. Return to top of widget ? Although not the highest in Canada, the rate of violent crime committed in the # x27;gun assistance in Ontario (32.1 per 100,000 population) increased by 24% in 2022, compared to 2021. From a more local perspective, the same rate jumped 36% in the Toronto CMA, 65% in Greater Sudbury, 53% in the Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo region and 39% in Brantford. Loading ELSE ON INFO: Eating disorders, from the inside Although it remains among the provinces with the fewest gun crimes, British Columbia still recorded an increase in 2022 of 12% of such cases, bringing its rate to 28 per 100,000 inhabitants. Quebec ranked third among the provinces with the lowest rate of violent firearm crimes (24.8 per 100,000 inhabitants), down 1.3% compared to 2021. Only Newfoundland -and Labrador (22.8 per 100,000 population) and Prince Edward Island (10 per 100,000 population) had lower rates in 2022. Start of widget. Skip widget ?End of widget. Return to start of widget ? At the other end of the spectrum, the Northwest Territories have the worst ratio of violent gun crime with a rate of 232.2 per 100,000 population, followed by Nunavut (182.6 per 100,000). inhabitants) and Saskatchewan (109.6 per 100,000 inhabitants). Despite some variations over the years , the rate of violent crimes committed using a firearm has generally been on the rise since 2013, and this increase is more pronounced in rural areas, notes Statistics Canada. As for the rate of crimes involving the discharge of a firearm with specific intent, it has tripled since 2013 in the country, showing a jump of 244% in ten years. The homicide rate has increased by 64% in Canada since 2013. In 2022, the country's police forces reported 874 homicides, of which 342 were committed with a firearm, i.e. 44 more than in 2021 and 208 more than in 2013. The rate of homicides committed with firearms in 2022 (0.88 homicides per 100,000 population) is the highest recorded since 1991. A quote from Statistics Canada Start of widget. Skip widget ?End of widget. Return to start of widget ? 
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By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116