A new report ranking the safest cities in Canada gave the highest overall safety scores to four Ontario cities: Barrie, Brantford, Guelph, and Toronto. The lowest overall safety scores went to Winnipeg, Manitoba, followed by Kelowna, B.C.; Thunder Bay, Ontario; and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Rentola, a rental listing company, ranked 34 Canadian cities using data from Statistics Canada.
The research considered five factors in assessing the overall security and well-being of a community: the crime severity index, the violent crime severity index, the non-violent crime severity indexes, the number of citizens per police officer, and the crime-solving rate.
Only cities with data on all of the indicators were included in the analysis, with each city given a score on the scale of 1 to 10, with 10 representing the best score, or the greatest safety….