Grande Prairie's tough but compassionate approach had helped mitigate homelessness and addiction problems in the Alberta city once called Canada's 'most dangerous' Canadians in big cities don’t feel safe these days and neither do folks in smaller towns. The reputation of Grande Prairie, Alta., as the toughest, meanest of all Canadian streets in 2015 made some hard decisions easier for Jackie Clayton, the current mayor of that mid-sized city of 68,000 people, located 450 kilometres north of Edmonton. Grande Prairie had nowhere to go but up. Elected mayor in 2021 after serving two previous terms on city council, Jackie has political licence from local citizens to do something, anything, to fix what’s clearly broken. And she’s not afraid to ask the tough questions and where necessary, make difficult decisions in a community that’s fed up with progressive ideals and status quo ideas that don’t work ... CLICK HERE for the full story