What can Toronto learn from Glasgow’s public health approach to fighting crime?

Plus, inside the fight to fly the Pride flag at one Ontario school board. [The Star] First Up [By Ashley Okwuosa] By Ashley Okwuosa Good morning. Realtors are asking students to be cautious of [Toronto rental listings that start at $1,100 and have hot plates instead of kitchens](. Here’s the latest. MUST READS Steve Russell/Toronto Star GTA [The Pride flag is supposed to be a sign of inclusion. At one Ontario school board it has sowed division]( June saw increasing tensions over how schools recognize and support the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, reports Janet Hurley. The York Catholic District School Board, in particular, voted not to raise the Pride flag outside its main office after months of contentious debates and hostile exchanges. How did the idea of inclusion become so divisive? [Here’s how the fight to fly the flag in York unfolded](. Ian Georgeson/Ian Georgeson BEYOND THE BADGE [Glasgow’s public health approach to crime transformed the city. Can it do the same for Toronto?]( Glasgow was once the “murder capital of Europe.” When the city began to treat violence less like an inevitability and more like a trackable and preventable disease, results showed a sharp drop in homicides, reports Wendy Gillis. Could this model work in a city like Toronto, with its diverse population and mistrust in police? Experts say success is possible anywhere — [if cities upend long-held ideas about crime fighting](. Richard Lautens/Toronto Star race to city hall [Key moments in the Toronto election, from debate clashes, Doug Ford warnings and a “Stop Chow” movement]( No matter the outcome, this has been an election for the history books: the first mayoral byelection in modern Toronto history, a record number of candidates, repeated interventions by the premier, alleged death threats, and on and on. While the most memorable moment is yet to come, after polls close at 8 p.m Monday night, David Rider breaks down [the main twists and turns of the historic Toronto mayoral election](. Ghosts of the Abyss Current events [The Titan, the Titanic and the echoes of history — and hubris]( The Titan and the Titanic are now inextricably linked in lore, if not permanently in location, writes Steve McKinley. As rescue crews work to remove the shattered hull of the submersible from the ocean floor, questions like why it happened and why voyage was made in the first place remain outstanding. Here’s why experts say hubris and ignoring [the lessons of history played a part in the fall of the Titan and the Titanic](. Graham Hughes/For the Toronto Star business [Rania Llewellyn sees her new role at Laurentian Bank as an opportunity to build a better bank]( Rania Llewellyn went from being a part-time bank teller to a top-ranking Scotiabank executive to making history when she joined Laurentian Bank in October 2020, becoming the first woman to lead a large Canadian-owned chartered bank. In her new role, she has cut loans toward oil and gas, launched ESG reports, removed Canadian experience as a hiring criterion — and that was just the beginning, reports Alex Cyr. [Here’s how Llewellyn is giving the 177-year-old bank its most radical makeover yet](. POV Martin Regg Cohn: Even if no one in Toronto’s race for mayor speaks to you, [you should vote anyway](. Colin Johnson: [Many mayoral candidates don’t understand Toronto’s drug poisoning crisis](. Devika Parsaud, Sami Pritchard and Melissa Wong: [The city’s next mayor needs to show up for struggling communities](. Heather Mallick: [The Titanic submersible’s story has been written before](. Star Editorial Board: This year, [Pride celebrations are tempered by backlash faced by LGBTQ individuals](. Navneet Alang: Recent Reddit outrage shows that corporations need to tread carefully or [risk angering the very people who bring them success](. READ THIS Chris Young/The Canadian Press In December 2020, actor Elliot Page came out as transgender, finally feeling empowered enough to exist in the world as himself. In an interview with Sarah Liss, [Page talks about his memoir, “Pageboy,” coming out as trans and the new joy he finds in work](. Thanks for reading. One last thing. If you also get the Star’s This Week in Politics newsletter, we’ve got a clarification to yesterday’s edition. It said that if Ana Bailão won, she “would use strong mayor powers to get more housing built,” but she would not use the specific power to overrule a majority of council. 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