Close X
Monday, November 18, 2024
ADVT 
National

Statistics Canada reports nearly 88,000 victims of family violence in 2013

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Jan, 2015 10:40 AM

    OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says there were nearly 88,000 victims of family violence in Canada in 2013 — making up more than one-quarter of all violent crimes reported to police.

    That's around the same level as 2011, when family violence accounted for 26 per cent of all police-reported violent crime.

    The agency says almost half the victims suffered family violence at the hands of a current or former spouse.

    The accused person was a parent in 17 per cent of cases, and an extended family member — such as an in-law, uncle or grandparent — in 14 per cent of cases.

    Sibling violence made up 11 per cent of cases, while 10 per cent of the time the accused person was the victim's own child.

    Statistics Canada says that almost 7 in 10 family violence victims were female in 2013.

    The agency says police-reported family violence rates were highest in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and lowest in Ontario and Prince Edward Island.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Ontario doctors who refuse treatment on moral grounds must give referral: new rules

    Ontario doctors who refuse treatment on moral grounds must give referral: new rules
    TORONTO — Canada's largest medical regulator wants to change its policies so that doctors who refuse to perform certain procedures — such as abortions — on moral grounds must refer patients to another doctor.

    Ontario doctors who refuse treatment on moral grounds must give referral: new rules

    New housing price index up 0.1 per cent in October: Statistics Canada

    New housing price index up 0.1 per cent in October: Statistics Canada
    OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.1 per cent in October, following an identical rise in September.

    New housing price index up 0.1 per cent in October: Statistics Canada

    Oil's slide expected to surface at provincial-federal finance ministers' meeting

    Oil's slide expected to surface at provincial-federal finance ministers' meeting
    OTTAWA — The topic of sliding oil prices is expected to surface this weekend when provincial finance ministers from across Canada have their first face-to-face meeting with federal counterpart Joe Oliver.

    Oil's slide expected to surface at provincial-federal finance ministers' meeting

    Supreme Court to hear federal challenge to Omar Khadr youth status

    Supreme Court to hear federal challenge to Omar Khadr youth status
    TORONTO — A decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the federal government's challenge of Omar Khadr's youth status stunned his lawyers on Thursday, although not much would have changed for him if the decision had gone the other way.

    Supreme Court to hear federal challenge to Omar Khadr youth status

    Extending life of CF-18s to 2025 to cost about $400 million: independent report

    Extending life of CF-18s to 2025 to cost about $400 million: independent report
    OTTAWA — A long-awaited market analysis into which fighter jet could replace the CF-18s tells the Harper government it can postpone a decision and keep flying the current fleet until 2025, but it will cost roughly $400 million.

    Extending life of CF-18s to 2025 to cost about $400 million: independent report

    Dead Child Found In Car Trunk In Surrey; Mother Arrested By Police

    Dead Child Found In Car Trunk In Surrey; Mother Arrested By Police
    SURREY, B.C. — Homicide investigators in Surrey, B.C., say they have arrested a woman believed to be the mother of a child who was found dead in a vehicle.

    Dead Child Found In Car Trunk In Surrey; Mother Arrested By Police