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Canadians perceive Calgary to be one of the country’s less-safe cities, ranking it 10th out of 15 major centres in a new poll.

The findings come after last month’s release of Statistics Canada crime stats, which showed a 29 per cent increase in the severity of crime in Calgary. Based on StatsCan’s Crime Severity Index, Calgary ranks ninth among the 15 cities covered by the poll. It ranks seventh for overall crime rate, regardless of severity.

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Winnipeg was seen as Canada’s least-safe city by poll respondents, followed by Toronto and Montreal. But Quito Maggi, Mainstreet’s president of research, noted that perceptions differed considerably from the statistics.

“Toronto, for example, ranks 14th out of 15 in terms of perceived safety, but ranks second behind just Quebec City and narrowly ahead of Ottawa, which topped the rank of safest cities as perceived by Canadians,” he said in a release.

“Winnipeg, which is ranked at the bottom by Canadians, has a crime severity index lower than Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon.”

Here’s how the cities ranked in Mainstreet’s poll, from safest to least safe: