Terrible journalism strikes again.
It's funny that this is being spun as Calgary being ranked poorly, when the actual numbers show Calgary is the best of the big cities on the list.
Here is the actual list:
http://www.allstate.ca/webpages/docs...N-Nov-2015.pdf
It's important to note that this only ranks cities where Allstate has offices in Canada, so it doesn't include provinces with government-run auto insurance. It only includes cities in four Provinces: Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
There are 11 cities in Canada with populations over 500,000. Four of those (Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Quebec City) are in provinces not included on this list. The other 7 cities are: Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, Mississauga, Brampton, and Hamilton.
This is the ranking of those 7 cities on the Allstate list:
- Calgary (55)
- Hamilton (58)
- Mississauga (64)
- Edmonton (66)
- Toronto (69)
- Brampton (75)
- Ottawa (78)
In fact, you can expand the list to cities larger than 250,000 and Calgary still comes out on top. You actually have to go to Kitchener, Ontario (219,153 population in 2011 census) to find the largest city in Canada that is higher on the list than Calgary.