THE INTERNET HAS passed television in the amount of time spent a week, the Web portal and media firm found in a report called âBorn to Be Wiredâ released Thursday. Young people, ages 13-24, spend an average of 16.7 hours a week online, excluding e-mail, compared to 13.6 hours watching TV. After TV viewing, they listened to radio for 12 hours, talked on the phone for 7.7 hours and spent six hours reading books and magazines for personal entertainment. For young people, the Internet is the primary media choice.
Provinces take care of law enforcement although police jurisdiction is left to federal agencies and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The crime rate in Canada continues to go down with the homicide rate declining to the lowest level in the last 46 years.The crime severity rate also went down by three percent. Observers claim that one of the reasons for this decline is the tightening of crime laws by conservative legislators.rovinces take care of law enforcement although police jurisdiction is left to federal agencies and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The crime rate in Canada continues to go down with the homicide rate declining to the lowest level in the last 46 years.
fact over the last century the british crime rate was largely unchanged in the late nineteenth century the per capita homicide rate in britain was between 1 0 and 1 5 per 100000 in the late twentieth century after a near ban on gun ownership the homicide rate is around 1 4this implies that the homicide rate did not vary with either the level of gun control or gun availabilityy 1986 and after significant gun control legislation canada s homicide rate was 35 % of the u s rate a significant increase in 2003 canada had a violent crime rate more than double that of the u s 963 vs 475 per 100000