XPost: can.politics, talk.politics.misc   
   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:05:07 -0800,  Alan says...   
      
   >   
   > ...but this was much more than that.   
   >   
      
   ... and your proof is?   
      
   The Democrats whining?   
      
   LOL   
      
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   Canada:   
      
   'Worst In The World': Here Are All The Rankings In Which Canada Is Now Last   
      
   Most Unaffordable Housing, Highest Cell phone Bills And Worst Rate of Acute   
   Care Beds, To Name A Few   
      
   If you spend any time on social media, it's likely that you've seen this   
   graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international   
   indices   
   which feature Canada near the top spot. "Canada is broken? I don't think so.   
   Neither does the world," reads a caption.   
      
   Next time someone rants on how about how "broken" Canada is; or how badly we   
   are doing on the international stage share some facts.   
      
   Numbers don't lie, Felicia.   
      
   https://archive.is/o/LnFRL/https://twitter.com/DIGuideBradley/st   
   tus/1554545079314010112   
      
   Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract   
   indices such as "quality of life" and "peace," there are plenty of far more   
   empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the   
   developed world.   
      
   There's plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive   
   list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.   
      
   WE HAVE THE MOST UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE OECD   
      
   The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a   
   club of the world's 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked   
   against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear   
   champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to   
   average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was   
   No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.   
      
   Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That's Canada   
   on the extreme right.   
      
   https://archive.is/LnFRL/840da40d6fa3b7fef6fcccdfc1637d24e0786760.webp   
      
   WE HAVE THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WIRELESS COSTS   
      
   Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world's most   
   expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again   
   dominated.   
   Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive place in the   
   world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the average Canadian   
   the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone plan with at least   
   100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that kind of cell phone   
   plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.   
      
   https://archive.is/LnFRL/822bcfe750687b1ef6288ee7df5606fd15629289.webp   
      
   Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of   
   mobile data as companies in France or Ireland.   
      
   Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of   
   mobile data as companies in France or Ireland. Photo by Rewheel   
      
   WE HAVE THE LOWEST RATE OF ACUTE CARE BEDS AMONG PEER COUNTRIES   
      
   Canada's health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple   
   fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times.   
   Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by   
   rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A   
   ranking   
   by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as to why.   
   When ranked against peer countries, Canada's rate of per-capita acute care beds   
   was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care beds for   
   every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.   
      
   TWO OF THE PLANET'S "BUBBLIEST" REAL ESTATE MARKETS ARE IN CANADA   
      
   For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of   
   overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with   
   "bubbly" real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was   
   second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth.   
   Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in   
   the top ten.   
      
   https://archive.is/LnFRL/1961e904e18e8cb533ff42c2eae7beb611827bd4.webp   
      
   Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble   
   risks," and they're both in Canada.   
      
   Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble   
   risks," and they're both in Canada. Photo by UBS Global Real Estate Bubble   
   Index   
   2021   
      
   WE RACKED UP COVID DEBT FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE   
      
   The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt   
   in the history of human civilization. So it's rather remarkable that amidst   
   this   
   international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone else.   
   Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country's rate of public and   
   private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.   
   Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP.   
   While a   
   handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the pandemic   
   with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it came to   
   how   
   quickly that debt had been accumulated.   
      
   Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of   
   Vancouver Tuesday, June 21,2022. Photo by (Photo by Jason Payne/ PNG)   
      
   https://archive.is/LnFRL/5b7e25218f55d343b998db94c6748b57312dafaf.webp   
      
   THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS (ALMOST) THE MOST INEFFICIENT IN THE WORLD   
      
   Last year - just as the global supply chain crisis got going - the World Bank   
   decided to rank the performance of the world's 370 major ports. Authors weighed   
   factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took   
   to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of   
   Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the   
   Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it's not like our other   
   ports   
   are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north to   
   Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.   
      
   https://archive.is/LnFRL/ac861be6fb2f37d1463e7670c232b5cd548d5395.webp   
      
   Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. Photo by World Bank Group   
      
   Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo by Peter J.   
   Thompson/National Post   
      
   https://archive.is/LnFRL/b32f7be38081069e5e696a0029996f6f3adaa760.webp   
      
   TORONTO PEARSON IS THE WORLD'S MOST-DELAYED AIRPORT   
      
   Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is   
   feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last   
   month,   
   CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports were   
   seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was Toronto   
      
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