Canadian cities ranked on their perceived safety; how biological males are dominating women’s golf; and more

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While Quebec City surged in a positive direction, Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto were all perceived as much less safe than they were in a similar survey done in 2017. Those cities are clustered at the bottom of the list, along with Winnipeg.

A pair of transgender-identifying golfers who have won five women’s golf championships in Alberta and B.C. between them this summer “are only partly to blame for their unfair wins,” Hamm argues. Alberta allows golfers to compete in the category corresponding with their professed gender, and B.C. allows persons to play in whatever category they choose.

“If counter-tariffs failed to change American policy the first time, why remake such a tired script?” Geloso asks. He suggests a better approach “would be to find policies that minimize the economic harm to Canadians,” such as unilateral trade liberalization, elimination of interprovincial trade barriers, business deregulation and tax cuts.

Leighton Grey is encouraging others to vote in favour of holding a binding provincial referendum on Alberta separation from Canada. But he admits that “the best we can hope for is to send Ottawa a message… I happen to think that we already have a pretty good Constitution. The problem is that we’re not governing ourselves in accordance to it.”

Sarkonak writes about a man who was deemed inadmissible to Canada by Public Safety Canada because they deemed him to be a human smuggler. The man admitted to transporting people “near the Canadian border,” where they made refugee claims. An immigration board tribunal ruled that was legal as long as he didn’t cross the border and ruled him to be admissible to Canada.

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