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On 6/16/2024 2:29 PM, AlleyCat wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:30:51 -0600,  CaLaVeRa says...
> 
>>
>> On 6/16/2024 12:58 PM, Alan wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-16 11:47, CaLaVeRa wrote:
>>>> On 6/16/2024 12:36 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-06-15 22:04, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:34:15 -0700,  Alan says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Trump is a convicted felon.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not yet.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Keep it up, stupid.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let's recap:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did you admit that Trump had been "found guilty"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Let's recap" and then you ask a question?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You like definitions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Definition of recap verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
>>>>>>
>>>>>> recap verb
>>>>>> /'ri?kæp/
>>>>>> /'ri?kæp/
>>>>>> [intransitive, transitive]
>>>>>> (also formal recapitulate)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Verb Forms
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to repeat or give a summary of what has already been said, decided,
>>>>>> etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pretty sure recapping does not involve asking questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a concise summary
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is asking a question summarizing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You really suck at this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Says the guy too afraid
>>>>
>>>> Let's meet for some Poutine and a beat-down  you game coward?
>>>>
>>>
>>> LOL!
>>
>>
>> Is that a "no show"?
> 
> Careful... he's plays field hockey with "the boys". ;-)
> 
> That's Ski Bunny in the Canada Red.
> 
> https://www.fieldhockey.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CDA-Nationals-day-2-
> 295.jpg
> 
> =====

LOl!

I woulda thought it was the chimpy goil on the right...

> 
> 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/status/1554545079
> 314010112
> 
> 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 Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport
> experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place
> finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed.
> Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its
> scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the
> world.
> 
> WE'RE ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST ECONOMIES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT
> 
> A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows
> into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually
> every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period;
> Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by
> more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign
> investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business
> Council of Canada noticed the same trend. "Canada is the second-worst in the
> OECD on openness to foreign direct investment," it concluded.
> 
> https://archive.is/LnFRL/222c5fba154990485338650dcb55e413d85e080c.webp
> 
> WE DRIVE THE MOST FUEL-INEFFICIENT VEHICLES IN THE WORLD
> 
> In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the
> world's private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in
> driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the
> average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone
> else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the
> heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse,
> cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of
> other countries where that was similarly the case.