There have definitely been some close calls in the two northern North American countries. in the past few years. And 1 fatal 737 crash as well about 4 years ago. But, I think there have been close calls in every area.
I do appreciate the reports that regularly get published in places like Australia that allow us to read and learn from errors that are made. It appears that some countries are not publishing reports to any great extent.
Find me one accident report from mainland China. It is too bad as this could prevent other accident. I can think of a couple of MD-11 accidents(Korean and Avient) both foreign carriers yet no report for us to read and learn from.