OTTAWA — Sexual assaults and robberies are up in Canada’s major cities, according to a new report.

The Macdonald Laurier Institute’s Urban Violent Crime Report sheds new light on the state of Canada’s increasingly unsafe streets, including an alarming rise in the incidence of urban sex crimes.

“Sexual assaults were up in every city we looked at,” co-author Dave Snow said in an interview this week. “This was by far our most consistent finding.”