According to a report by Berkshire Hathaway, Canada is the second safest country in the world for LGBTQ+ travellers in 2026.
    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
      26·
      11 days ago

      Why the fuck is the UK even listed at all? The country that proudly says, that it is determining sex based on what you were born with and that everyone has to use bathrooms AS according to their birth sex.

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        11 days ago

        Because it’s a list about safety, not about beliefs. Regardless of what “the country says”, you are not in any danger if you disagree. And outside of that issue, it’s a very welcoming country for LGBT folks (yes, including T, despite what the government may say).

        Especially since it’s in the context of travel, so citizen rights are less relevant as they don’t apply to you anyway, and it’s much more relevant how you are going to be treated as a tourist, as you choose from the several LGBT friendly pubs down the road.

        And that’s still hyper focusing on one issue, totally ignoring the list also concerns safety for women and people of color, which can bring you up on the list.

          • Ravens@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            11 days ago

            Unfortunately the current government was voted in under quite a different pretext to how they’re acting now. They were also the only other prominent option at the time.

          • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            11 days ago

            That would sure be nice, unfortunately the UK has the common problem of being able to either vote for the bad option or the worse option, neither of which is what most people want, they only disagree about which one is the worse one.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    12 days ago

    I love you, Canada. I want to join you one day. Please acquire California.

    • Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      57·
      11 days ago

      38.33% of Californians voted for Trump last election. In our most right-wing province of Alberta, 21% of people hold positive views of Trump. Adding a blue state to Canada would bring in millions of far-right voters and move our country significantly right.

      Let’s remain friends. :)

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        11 days ago

        I doubt those fuckers would stay in California if we left to join you.

        • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          11 days ago

          Not a risk I’m willing to take :/

          Edit: and who knows? Our level of free healthcare may radicalize them :)

        • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 days ago

          Given our own right wingers would rather seperate an entire province than just join the states themselves, i doubt your rigbt wingers would just walk away from california in this hypothetical scenario

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        This is interesting, but I felt the measures used aren’t right. It’s to be expected that a leader who’s antagonising your country would be disliked, even when their ideology is similar to yours.

        To be able to compare well enough in the little time I have in my busy life, I had to go by a methodology that is not perfect but allows some comparison. It’s the Political Compass.

        According to this site, during the 2025 federal elections, the Conservative party was 8,7 (economic scale and social scale respectively), while Trump was 9,9 during the last presidential elections. It means Trump is to the right of the Conservative party, but not by a lot.

        I have to go now but I’ll try later to find the proportion of Albertan voterd who voted for the Conservative party.

        EDIT: 63,5% of Albertan voters voted for the CPC. It’s still hard to compare that statistic to the proportion of Californian voters who voted for Trump, but my feeling is that California isn’t far removed from Alberta, perhaps it is even left of Alberta.

    • sahin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      I dont trust the data any more. You should check how they managed to create the list, which sources they used etc. Most of the data are made by the West, so West countries top the list all the time. Thailand should definitely be in top 10!

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Only in your head. I have no idea why you are upvoted, safety is no the same as terrifying.
      Most countries have safety indexes for traveling to them as tourists, what so strange about making one for LGBT, and why do you feel like degrading it?

      • orioler25@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I honestly can’t understand your comment in any other way than it resulting from you flatout not reading my comment.

        If Canada is an example of one of the safest countries in the world for queer people, that is fucking terrifying. I have been to towns in Canada where you could be feasibly assaulted and even killed for being visibly trans around the wrong kind of men. State support extends to queer rights so far as it maintains its control over queer peoples’ labour and bodies as it defines their access to both. Do you people seriously only ever live in Toronto or Vancouver? Canada is a fucking white supremacist, racist, ableist, and wildly queerphobic place, legal rights are the bare minimum of protection in this society, and they are only just barely protected here.

        I have never felt safe in Canada a single day in my conscious life, I refuse to give the state any credit whatsoever for the resources and wellbeing it threatens to revoke should too many people like me become visible and disruptive to business as usual.

        Do not respond until you understand what the fuck you’re saying.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          There is nothing in your previous comment that shows it’s a personal experience. I am sorry to hear it is so bad for you.

          • orioler25@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            Did you consider that you simply did not read that comment critically enough? The suggestion that Canada is a low bar for human decency doesn’t usually come from people who do not have experience with the bigotry of Canadians and the Canadian state.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          you could be feasibly assaulted and even killed for being visibly trans around the wrong kind of men

          This is unfortunately just the reality of existing while trans on planet Earth, regardless of which part :(

          But yeah, this article is absolutelty crap though.

  • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    Our country isn’t easy to get in to but you are definitely welcome! There’s no place free of bigots but at least in the cities there are enough of us to protect you.

    Edit: not easy as an immigrant I mean. Getting permanent residence (PR), etc. Tourists from most countries should have little trouble travelling (as long as you don’t have a layover in the USA).

    And depending on the area many small towns are probably fine also.

      • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        I realise this isn’t targeted at me.

        but for anyone reading

        There is desperate need accross the nation for professionals at all levels of care. The exception to my above comment is if you’re in an in-demand field. It will be much easier. The scope of that may have narrowed but nurses, care workers, etc. are in high demand everywhere here and will fast-track you for sure.

        Edit: and our birthrate is dangerously low. We need immigrants to continue to exist as a nation.

        • agingelderly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          What if I promise to become a nurse if you (Canada) puts me through the schooling and gives me citizenship?

        • CareHare@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          I’m a nurse but life is too good in Belgium. Only thing I miss here is your astonishing nature and the legal green. Though it’s not worth trading my friends, family and culture over for me.

          A nephew of mine did take the leap and lives with his Canadian girlfriend (yes I know this is a meme, but I’ve met her a couple of times, she’s real) somewhere in Canada. Should definitely plan for a visit once my babies are a little bit older.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 days ago

    How is this “world news”? The news is the full list and not just Canada.

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Took me a couple read throughs ngl but I see you’re referring to the submission’s editorialized (?) title.