How is HN falling for this again, barely 24h after the Bob Lee story showed how this forum is prone to these narratives?
The very first link in the article from StatsCan is "Canada's crime rate: Two decades of decline". It says the opposite of what the NP article is quoting it for.
This misquotation is followed by a series of anectodes, and backed up by the intellectual weight of... an opinion survey.
The multiple of anecdote is not "data".
The correct title for this article is "people believe there is an increase in crime", for which articles like this is the reason.