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This puzzle offered some nice long entries - GOOD CHOICE, COLD-CALLED - but at the cost of numerous three-letter entries. I tried to keep them interesting, but will try and steer future puzzles away from these extremes!
The Centre is *for*, is in favour of, Canadian crosswords. It is a creative space where the default assumption is Canadian, from the references to the spelling.