Alberta has highest provincial aboriginal female homicide rate: StatsCan
A new Statistics Canada study shows Alberta’s homicide rate for aboriginal women was more than seven times that of non-aboriginal women.
Aboriginal women in Alberta also face higher homicide rates than in any other province, the sweeping report on women and the justice system found, a finding that one Edmonton advocate calls “startling.”
Between 2001 and 2015, there were 7.17 aboriginal female homicides per 100,000 people in Alberta, compared to .97 homicides among no
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