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.
In 2010, police reported 554 homicides in Canada, 56 fewer than the year before, the agency reported Wednesday, following a decade of relative stability. The homicide rate fell to 1.62 for every 100,000 population, its lowest level since 1966, the agency says.olice in several of the nation's largest cities reported substantially fewer homicides in 2010. The homicide rate in Metro Vancouver, with 25 fewer killings, fell 42 per cent to its lowest level since data in metropolitan areas became available in 1981.