Complex sentence: Guelph has been noted as having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country throughout the 2008--2012 global recession, and has ranked at the bottom of Canada's crime severity list since 2007.
Split into simpler sentences: Guelph has been noted as having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country throughout the 2008--2012 global recession. The city has also ranked at the bottom of Canada's crime severity list since 2007.