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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   AlleyCat   wrote:   
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   >On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 01:03:00 -0000 (UTC),  The Doctor says...   
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   >> >>> The numbers prove that usenet is not dying   
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   >> >and neither am i   
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   >> Happy to know.   
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   >What does this have to do with Canadian politics?   
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   >Here... I'll make it right.   
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   >Canada:   
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   >'Worst In The World': Here Are All The Rankings In Which Canada Is Now Last   
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   >Most Unaffordable Housing, Highest Cell phone Bills And Worst Rate of Acute   
   >Care Beds, To Name A Few   
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   >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.   
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   >Next time someone rants on how about how "broken" Canada is; or how badly we   
   >are doing on the international stage... share some facts.   
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   >Numbers don't lie, Felicia.   
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   >https://archive.is/o/LnFRL/https://twitter.com/DIGuideBradley/status/155454507   
   >9314010112   
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   >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.   
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   >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.   
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   >WE HAVE THE MOST UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE OECD   
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   >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.   
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   >Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That's Canada   
   >on the extreme right.   
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   >https://archive.is/LnFRL/840da40d6fa3b7fef6fcccdfc1637d24e0786760.webp   
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   >WE HAVE THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WIRELESS COSTS   
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   >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.   
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   >https://archive.is/LnFRL/822bcfe750687b1ef6288ee7df5606fd15629289.webp   
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   >Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of   
   >mobile   
   >data as companies in France or Ireland.   
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   >Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of   
   >mobile   
   >data as companies in France or Ireland. Photo by Rewheel   
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   >WE HAVE THE LOWEST RATE OF ACUTE CARE BEDS AMONG PEER COUNTRIES   
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   >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.   
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   >TWO OF THE PLANET'S "BUBBLIEST" REAL ESTATE MARKETS ARE IN CANADA   
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   >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.   
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   >https://archive.is/LnFRL/1961e904e18e8cb533ff42c2eae7beb611827bd4.webp   
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   >Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble   
   >risks," and they're both in Canada.   
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   >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   
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   >WE RACKED UP COVID DEBT FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE   
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   >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.   
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   >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)   
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   >https://archive.is/LnFRL/5b7e25218f55d343b998db94c6748b57312dafaf.webp   
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   >THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS (ALMOST) THE MOST INEFFICIENT IN THE WORLD   
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   >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.   
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   >https://archive.is/LnFRL/ac861be6fb2f37d1463e7670c232b5cd548d5395.webp   
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   >Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. Photo by World Bank Group   
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   >Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo by Peter J.   
   >Thompson/National Post   
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   >https://archive.is/LnFRL/b32f7be38081069e5e696a0029996f6f3adaa760.webp   
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   >TORONTO PEARSON IS THE WORLD'S MOST-DELAYED AIRPORT   
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   >Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is   
      
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