Table 2
Police-reported serious assaults, by province and territory, 2008
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| Province and territory | Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2) |
Aggravated assault (level 3) |
Assault against peace officers1 |
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| number | rate2 | percent change in rate from 1998 to 20083 | number | rate2 | percent change in rate from 1998 to 20083 | number | rate2 | percent change in rate from 1998 to 20083 | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 713 | 140.4 | 54.7 | 29 | 5.7 | 62.3 | 103 | 20.3 | 92.1 |
| Prince Edward Island | 105 | 75.1 | 56.9 | 2 | 1.4 | . | 13 | 9.3 | -25.7 |
| Nova Scotia | 1,498 | 159.6 | 110.7 | 87 | 9.3 | 41.6 | 362 | 38.6 | 168.3 |
| New Brunswick | 1,059 | 141.7 | 59.0 | 59 | 7.9 | 69.3 | 259 | 34.7 | 15.1 |
| Quebec | 11,259 | 145.3 | 67.4 | 245 | 3.2 | -37.7 | 2,753 | 35.5 | 23.6 |
| Ontario | 14,762 | 114.2 | 1.5 | 1,290 | 10.0 | 6.1 | 2,834 | 21.9 | 23.7 |
| Manitoba | 3,976 | 329.2 | 23.3 | 324 | 26.8 | 46.7 | 439 | 36.3 | 35.1 |
| Saskatchewan | 3,921 | 385.9 | 61.4 | 357 | 35.1 | 70.3 | 532 | 52.4 | 66.0 |
| Alberta | 6,914 | 192.9 | 43.5 | 659 | 18.4 | 46.0 | 1,166 | 32.5 | 33.0 |
| British Columbia | 9,104 | 207.8 | 26.6 | 433 | 9.9 | 59.4 | 1,102 | 25.2 | 17.6 |
| Yukon | 158 | 476.7 | 78.9 | 12 | 36.2 | 2.5 | 23 | 69.4 | 35.1 |
| Northwest Territories4 | 413 | 954.2 | 167.5 | 24 | 55.4 | -9.8 | 60 | 138.6 | 101.3 |
| Nunavut5 | 369 | 1,173.4 | 249.7 | 33 | 104.9 | 369.1 | 53 | 168.5 | 73.9 |
| Canada | 54,251 | 162.9 | 31.7 | 3,554 | 10.7 | 22.6 | 9,699 | 29.1 | 28.7 |
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1. Peace officers include police officers, correctional officers, bailiffs, justices of the peace, municipal by-law officers and others who are employed for the maintenance of public peace. 2. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population. Population estimates are from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. 3. Percent change based upon unrounded rates. 4. Includes Nunavut prior to 1999. As such, the percent change in the rate is calculated from 1999 to 2008. 5. Nunavut became a territory in 1999. As such, the percent change in the rate is calculated from 1999 to 2008. Note: Counts are based upon the most serious offence in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. |
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