Indian envoy warns of 'big red line,' days after charges laid in Nijjar case
India's envoy to Canada insists relations between the two countries are positive overall, despite what he describes as 'a lot of noise.'
After a string of violent attacks on public transit in Toronto and other cities, a new survey has found that nearly six in 10 public transit users in Canada say they feel less safe or somewhat less safe while commuting.
In the survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News, 35 per cent of respondents who use public transit said they feel less safe and 23 per cent said they feel somewhat less safe compared to a year ago.
Ontarians were most likely to worry about their safety, as 71 per cent of respondents from the province said they feel less safe or somewhat less safe while riding public transit. Women across Canada were also more likely to say the same thing, as 65 per cent of women said they feel less safe or somewhat less safe, compared to 50 per cent of men.
In Quebec, 39 per cent of transit users said they feel at least somewhat less safe -- the lowest out of all the regions in Canada. In addition, 50 per cent of British Columbians and 63 per cent of people in the Prairies also said they feel less safe or somewhat less safe commuting on public transit.
A recent string of violent and seemingly random attacks on buses and streetcars and at transit stations in Toronto has prompted the city to boost policing at subway stations. Incidents of violence on transit have also been reported in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
In response to these incidents, 58 per cent of Canadians say they're being more cautious or somewhat more cautious about their surroundings when out in urban settings.
Ontario had the highest proportion of respondents saying they're being more cautious or somewhat more cautious (66 per cent) followed by the Prairies (60 per cent), British Columbia (49 per cent) and Atlantic Canada (48 per cent). In addition, 63 per cent of women overall said they're being at least somewhat more cautious, compared to 52.4 per cent of men.
Meanwhile, car commuters are also on high alert as auto thefts have been on the rise across the country. The survey found that 86 per cent of Canadians say it's necessary or somewhat necessary for car owners to take extra precautions in order to prevent their vehicles from being stolen.
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,054 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between Jan. 27 and 30, 2023, as part of an omnibus survey.
Participants were randomly recruited by telephone using live agents and administered a survey online. The sample included both land- and cell-lines across Canada. The results were statistically checked and weighted by age and gender using the latest census information and the sample is geographically stratified to be representative of Canada.
Individuals randomly called using random digit dialling with a maximum of five call backs. The margin of error for this survey is ±3.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. This study was commissioned by CTV News and the research was conducted by Nanos Research.
India's envoy to Canada insists relations between the two countries are positive overall, despite what he describes as 'a lot of noise.'
With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later.
The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S.
Footage from dozens of security cameras in the area of Drake’s Bridle Path mansion could be the key to identifying the suspect responsible for shooting and seriously injuring a security guard outside the rapper’s sprawling home early Tuesday morning, a former Toronto homicide detective says.
A chicken farmer near Mattawa made an 'eggstraordinary' find Friday morning when she discovered one of her hens laid an egg close to three times the size of an average large chicken egg.
Susan Buckner, best known for playing peppy Rydell High School cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 classic movie musical 'Grease,' has died. She was 72.
Accused killer Jeremy Skibicki could have a challenging time convincing a judge that he is not criminally responsible for the deaths of four Indigenous women, a legal analyst says.
A Calgary bylaw requiring businesses to charge a minimum bag fee and only provide single-use items when requested has officially been tossed.
Two Nova Scotia men are dead after a boat they were travelling in sank in the Annapolis River in Granville Centre, N.S., on Monday.
An Ontario man says he paid more than $7,700 for a luxury villa he found on a popular travel website -- but the listing was fake.
Whether passionate about Poirot or hungry for Holmes, Winnipeg mystery obsessives have had a local haunt for over 30 years in which to search out their latest page-turners.
Eighty-two-year-old Susan Neufeldt and 90-year-old Ulrich Richter are no spring chickens, but their love blossomed over the weekend with their wedding at Pine View Manor just outside of Rosthern.
Alberta Ballet's double-bill production of 'Der Wolf' and 'The Rite of Spring' marks not only its final show of the season, but the last production for twin sisters Alexandra and Jennifer Gibson.
A mother goose and her goslings caused a bit of a traffic jam on a busy stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway near Vancouver Saturday.
A British Columbia mayor has been censured by city council – stripping him of his travel and lobbying budgets and removing him from city committees – for allegedly distributing a book that questions the history of Indigenous residential schools in Canada.
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
A group of SaskPower workers recently received special recognition at the legislature – for their efforts in repairing one of Saskatchewan's largest power plants after it was knocked offline for months following a serious flood last summer.
A police officer on Montreal's South Shore anonymously donated a kidney that wound up drastically changing the life of a schoolteacher living on dialysis.