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In article <MPG.42745ac55b4ab9de98bc0b@news.eternal-september.org>,
AlleyCat  <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
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>On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:16:58 -0700,  Alan says...  
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>> On 2025-04-23 20:23, AlleyCat wrote:
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>> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:42:12 -0700,  Alan says...
>> > 
>> >>> "He's doing a great job," Trump said, dismissing the reports as
>> >>> "just FAKE NEWS."
>> > 
>> >> As I said: I look forward to your tortured explanation when Trump 
>> >> finally fires him.
>> > 
>> > Hate to disappoint you, but if that happens, I'm OK with it, but in
>> > the meantime?
>> 
>> And you'll suddenly believe that all the things you claim are "fake 
>> news" are suddenly become truth!
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>Is that a question or a statement?
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>If it's a question, then, nope.
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>If it's a statement, then, nope... you are a liar.
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>3:28 PM 4/24/2025
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>Hegseth is STILL serving as the 29th United States Secretary of Defense.
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>And rich boy can't stand it, though I can't understand WHY he gives a
>shit. He doesn't. He's only here to prove, to himself ONLY, 
>of course, that he's the smartest rich boy in the "room".
>
>It helps if you're the ONLY rich kid in the "room".
>
>I guess THIS could be another reason he's obsessed with The United
>States, instead of his own country.
>
>=====
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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.
>
>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.
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>https://archive.is/o/LnFRL/https://twitter.com/DIGuideBradley/status/1554545079314010112
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>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.
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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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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
>
>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
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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 
>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
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>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.

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