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In late July 2026, Statistics Canada delivered something Canadians have not heard often in recent years: good news about crime. Although Canada’s violent crime rate was essentially unchanged from 2024, Statistics Canada reported declines across several other metrics in 2025: the overall crime rate (down 2 per cent), overall crime severity (down 5 per cent), violent crime severity (down ...
Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms began as something modest: a procedural protection meant to ensure that when the state interferes with “life, liberty, and security of the person,” it does so in accordance with the “principles of fundamental justice.” It was not, at least on paper, designed to place courts at the centre of sweeping...
Canada’s criminal justice system is failing its most basic test: keeping the public safe. A new report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute reveals rising crime, falling clearance rates, and a bail system widely seen as broken. The result is a struggling justice system increasingly derailed by delays and struggling to deliver safety or accountability – eroding the trust of the Canadians...
Violent crime in Canada’s cities has not only risen – it has become a growing threat affecting urban communities across the country. While headlines often focus on year-to-year fluctuations in crime, the Urban Violent Crime Report, Volume 2 reveals a deeper and more troubling reality: over the past decade, violent crime has increased significantly across Canadian cities, spreading beyond Toronto...
The federal government is spending several million dollars a year to do indirectly what it is unwilling to do directly: help activists wage a social justice war via the courts, far away from the public eye. In recent years, the federal Court Challenges Program (CCP) has come under increasing political scrutiny. The program, which the Trudeau Liberals revived in 2018...
Higher education in Canada has reached a tenuous moment. For too long, it has focused on “equity, diversity, and inclusion” (EDI) at the expense of research excellence. This has occurred alongside a growing lack of viewpoint diversity among faculty and concerns over the erosion of academic freedom in Canada.
In recent years there has been a surge in violent crime across Canada as a whole. However, not much is known about short- and long-term violent crime trends in specific urban areas. Because most Canadians interact with crime in their local communities, there needs to be more focus on violent crime at the local level.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute just released our third Justice Report Card, which grades the nation, and each province and territory, on the successes and failures of our criminal justice system. If this were a real report card it would likely be hidden at the bottom of a backpack and might lead to some awkward conversations around the dinner table. Canada’s criminal...