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It has one of the highest homicide rate in Canada

  • Canadian 2023 homicide rate: 1.94

  • Saskatchewan 2023 homicide rate: 4.88

Source: Statistics Canada

Saskatchewan is also the province with the lowest life expectancy:

https://www.funwithdata.ca/canada-facts/health/which-province-has-the-highest-and-lowest-life-expectancy

In fact, life expectancy is going down at an alarming rate

https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/life-expectancy-in-saskatchewan-hits-20-year-low-statistics-canada/

What the hell is going on over there?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Indigenous people are overrepresented among homicide victims in Canada: "The homicide rate for Indigenous people was over six times higher than for the non-Indigenous population (9.31 versus 1.46 homicides per 100,000 population)." ( source , which is 2023 data).

General Indigenous life expectancy is also lower—anywhere from 10 to 20 years difference at birth, depending on which information source and which subset of Indigenous people (Inuit lifespans are shortest overall). Here's some StatsCan data from 2011—I can't find anything more recent, although I'm sure it exists.

I haven't found any death statistics for Indigenous people in Saskatchewn specifically. They're ~17% of the population there, per Wikipedia, which is the highest % of any province I could find the information for quickly (more than double Alberta's, for instance), so Indigenous issues actually could be a significant contributor to Saskatchewan's statistical skew.