I pulled Statistics Canada's Table 35-10-0177-01 to check the emergency trauma care hypothesis. If medical advances were turning lethal assaults into non-fatal outcomes, incidents with intent to kill would appear in police records as attempted murder under Section 239 of the Criminal Code. Instead, the national attempted murder rate fell from 2.24 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1.65 in 2025, mirroring the decline in homicides. The divergence in non-fatal assault figures is administrative: in January 2018, police services revised their Uniform Crime Reporting standard, classifying reports as founded unless positive proof indicates otherwise.
I considered that, too. But I figured that the two charges (murder vs attempted murder) aren't easy to compare. After all, a dead body makes the charge pretty straightforward, but proving attempted murder is far more complicated. So it's possible that many or even most failed murder attempts will never be charged as such.
Are there age standardized statistics? If not, while trauma care seems most likely, I wonder about Stephen Punwasi's missing persons thesis. Have those rates changed over time?
I pulled Statistics Canada's Table 35-10-0177-01 to check the emergency trauma care hypothesis. If medical advances were turning lethal assaults into non-fatal outcomes, incidents with intent to kill would appear in police records as attempted murder under Section 239 of the Criminal Code. Instead, the national attempted murder rate fell from 2.24 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1.65 in 2025, mirroring the decline in homicides. The divergence in non-fatal assault figures is administrative: in January 2018, police services revised their Uniform Crime Reporting standard, classifying reports as founded unless positive proof indicates otherwise.
I considered that, too. But I figured that the two charges (murder vs attempted murder) aren't easy to compare. After all, a dead body makes the charge pretty straightforward, but proving attempted murder is far more complicated. So it's possible that many or even most failed murder attempts will never be charged as such.
Are there age standardized statistics? If not, while trauma care seems most likely, I wonder about Stephen Punwasi's missing persons thesis. Have those rates changed over time?
https://x.com/StephenPunwasi/status/1889520033618886721?a=OBWf6jid90DtmB3Y8jA&s=20
I doubt I'd be able to find useful age standardized numbers. But the missing persons angle is definitely something worth following up on.