About Crime Canada

Crime Canada is an independent Canadian public-information project. We publish crime and public-safety news based on official police releases, and police-reported crime statistics from Statistics Canada, for every province and territory, in English and French. Our aim is to help readers understand what is happening, what the numbers can and cannot show, and where to find the original sources.

Who we are

Crime Canada is not a police service, not a government body and not a law firm. We do not give legal advice. We bring together official releases and official data and explain them in plain language.

The site covers all of Canada. Earlier versions focused on British Columbia and Metro Vancouver. Today our news, guides and statistics cover every province and territory.

What the two sites cover

crimecanada.ca

• Crime and public-safety news and police alerts
• Missing persons and wanted persons appeals
• Plain-language guides to Criminal Code offences in Offences and Learn
• Data articles in Insights
• “What happens next” guides for people charged in each province
• Criminal lawyer information pages by city in Criminal Lawyers, and a free consultation request form
• A newsletter and an RSS feed

statistics.crimecanada.ca

Our statistics site presents police-reported crime statistics for Canada, the 13 provinces and territories, more than 40 census metropolitan areas, about 5,000 municipalities and the police services that report them. You will find crime rates, the Crime Severity Index, trends since 1998 where available, rankings, comparisons, a map and neighbourhood maps for Toronto and Vancouver.

Where the news comes from

Our news relies on official sources only: news releases from the RCMP in every province and territory, and from about 28 municipal police services, such as Vancouver, Surrey, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Peel, York, Hamilton, Montreal’s SPVM, Halifax and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. We collect these releases from the police services’ websites and RSS feeds.

Each article is based on one official release and links to it. Photos in missing and wanted appeals come from the police release itself, and appeals are marked found, located or arrested when police update them. We publish no sponsored articles, and the site shows no ads at present.

Where the numbers come from

Our statistics come from Statistics Canada’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey, which counts crimes reported to and recorded by police. The latest data year is 2025, released by Statistics Canada in July 2026. We load each annual release into our database and check it with automated data-health tests. Rates are per 100,000 population.

Neighbourhood figures come from Toronto Police Service open data (158 neighbourhoods) and Vancouver Police Department GeoDASH open data (24 neighbourhoods, counts only).

Police-reported data have limits. Not every crime is reported to police, reporting and policing practices change, rates in small places can swing sharply, and a municipality’s rate can include non-residents such as commuters and tourists. Statistics Canada also revises its data. The full list of tables, definitions and limits is in our data methodology and the statistics site methodology.

Our standards

• Facts from the source. News articles state only facts found in the official release.
• Neutral, attributed wording. We write “police say” and “is charged with”, and we respect the presumption of innocence: a charge is not a conviction.
• Protecting people. We do not name youths, or victims police have not named, and we respect publication bans.
• Sources you can check. Every article links to the original release, and statistics pages are based on named Statistics Canada tables.
• Kept up to date. Guides and data articles are based on our Statistics Canada figures and the Criminal Code, and are updated when the law or the data change. Older articles from the site’s previous version (2025-2026) are kept with their dates.

Read our editorial policy for the full rules, and our corrections and data accuracy policy to see how we handle errors. To ask for a correction or removal, use the “Report a problem” form on any article or write to [email protected].

Legal information, not legal advice

Our legal resources, offence guides and “what happens next” guides explain how the law and the criminal process work in general. They are not legal advice. Through the free consultation request form, a person can ask to be contacted by an independent criminal lawyer. We pass a request to a lawyer only with the person’s consent. Crime Canada is not a law firm and does not recommend a particular firm, and sending a request does not create a lawyer-client relationship. See our disclaimer.

Tips and emergencies

We do not forward tips to police. If you have information about a crime:

• In an emergency, call 911.
• Otherwise, call your local police non-emergency line.
• To stay anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (1-800-222-8477) or through your local Crime Stoppers site, listed at Canadian Crime Stoppers.

Never put yourself at risk to get information. Our tip policy explains what happens to tips sent to us.

Reusing our work

Our statistics pages and articles may be quoted and cited with a link to the page. Statistics Canada data are used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence, and police releases belong to their police services. Search engines and AI assistants are welcome: we publish /llms.txt and an MCP server for AI agents. See data licensing for details.

Contact us

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone and text: +1 778 900 3008 (English or French; not an emergency line)
• Mailing area: North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J7

You can also use our contact and tip form. When reporting an error, please include the page link and the public source you are relying on. The same contact handles privacy requests; see our privacy policy and our trust page.