So far this year, Montreal has counted up 41 homicides, about average: we had only 35 in 2005, a recent low. One death that recently made the list was of the elderly man pushed off a bus in August who died just before Christmas and thus upped his attacker's charge from assault to manslaughter. The Journal looks back at other transit-related attacks over the last few years, but there seems to be no pattern to them.

By comparison, Quebec City had no homicides in 2007 – that we yet know about, anyway.
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