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Because this is Canadian news, and you'd be surprised how little happens in a country with gun controls, Police who take protect and serve seriously regardless of your skin color, and a tenth of the population of our neighbors to the south. The bar is pretty low for news in Canada, and that's the way we like it.

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I have great respect for Canadian law enforcement. But its not all roses. Canadian native women have a shameful unsolved murder rate - the 2nd worst in the developed world. So some room to improve.

Well there ain't been anything new on that front for quite some time.

Canada's native population has suffered. But it's important to put things in perspective. In 2016 there were 142 female aboriginal homicides total in all of Canada [1].

In comparison it takes Chicago alone only 2 months to hit that number.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2017001/article/54879/...

What a strange comparison - apples to gang war zones.

If Chicago is too violent then it's equivalent to 6 months in NYC which most people consider safe these days.

There seem to only be 718500 Aboriginal females in Canada and there are 8.5 million people in NYC and in 2017 there were 334 murders.

So 1 murder per 5000 Aboriginal females in Canada and 1 murder per 25000 people in NYC.

With those numbers it sounds like Canada's police force needs a lot of help in lowering that murder rate.

Ever hear of the Highway of Tears? Canada has its own racial issues.

As a fellow Canadian, you're way overstating things. Canada might not have the same problems as the US, but oh boy, do they have problems.

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