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 total, there were about 1.8 million Criminal Code (excluding traffic) incidents reported by police in 2013, approximately 132,000 fewer than the previous year (Table 1b). As such, the police-reported crime rate, which measures the volume of crime per 100,000 population, decreased in 2013.There were 5,190 incidents per 100,000 population, marking an 8% decrease in the police-reported crime rate from 2012.ver the past decade, there has been an increase in the rate of police-reported drug offences in Canada (Chart 14). The rate in 2013 was 13% higher than it was a decade previously. The rate of possession offences for other drugs increased 80%, driven by increases in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario.