Say what you will about the Harper government, you can’t argue with statistics like this!
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:39AM EST
Published Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:39AM EST
OTTAWA — When it comes to measuring the good life, Canada is among
the world’s top spots for individual well-being, according to report by
the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The others in the top category are Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, the U.S. and Norway.
The Paris-based organization does not issue a specific ranking, but OECD officials said the countries in the highest tier scored in the top 20 per cent in all 11 major categories assessed, including income and wealth, employment, health status, housing, education expectancy and attainment, work-life balance and personal security.
Canada scored at or near the top in terms of having a low long-term
unemployment rate, health status, housing, education and skills, social
connections, personal security (low crime), and in life satisfaction.The others in the top category are Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, the U.S. and Norway.
The Paris-based organization does not issue a specific ranking, but OECD officials said the countries in the highest tier scored in the top 20 per cent in all 11 major categories assessed, including income and wealth, employment, health status, housing, education expectancy and attainment, work-life balance and personal security.
In terms of self-reported life satisfaction, residents of Switzerland profess to be most satisfied with their lot, while those in Hungary the least. Canadians place eighth among the 36 OECD industrialized nations.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-among-world-s-top-7-nations-for-living-well-oecd-1.1528395#ixzz2jmICO09a
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India launched its first rocket to Mars on Tuesday, aiming to reach the red planet at a much lower cost than successful missions by other nations, positioning the emerging Asian giant as a budget player in the latest global space race.
Apparently “Mission Control” has been awarded to a tech support company in Mumbai. (Aerotech)
The flight is reported to be going well, but Aerotech claims it can get the craft to Mars a few days earlier for an extra hundred bucks!
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MEANWHILE: The number of Canadians using food banks has fallen off slightly but still remains near record highs almost four years after the end of the economic recession.
The annual study by Food Banks Canada, scheduled for release Tuesday, shows that more than 833,000 people relied on food handouts during one snapshot month earlier this year, compared with 872,379 the previous March. More than a third of them were children.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/number-of-canadians-using-food-banks-still-near-record-levels-study-says-1.1528397#ixzz2jmM0ep3V
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Speaking of food:
Boy, they sure do like their chicken down East!
Nova Scotians looking to savour a tub of finger lickin’ good chicken will have fewer places to choose from after four KFCs ìn the province closed Sunday.
Doors are now shut at the Wyse Road and Cole Harbour locations in HRM, along with joints in Antigonish and Elmsdale.
The owner of the four restaurants said the leases are up and the buildings old. Dwight Fraser, president of Franchise Management Inc., said it’s better to redevelop than to renovate.
But customers are missing their fix.
“We already went to a KFC down by our school today and they didn’t have any chicken left,” said Madison Gaillard. “So we came here and it was closed, and now we have to go somewhere else to find it.”
(We here at Perspective don’t know what all the fuss is about……………………., KFC has been closing restaurants left, right, and centre, all over the province here in Ontario.)
One day I found a huge ……………., HUGE, banana spider making a nest in our back yard!
My dad killed it with a whole can of RAID!
I never went in the backyard again!
(Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes! – Indiana Jones)
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Pirates off the Horn of Africa hauled in hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years — and funneled those funds into drugs, prostitution, and other ventures.
Somali pirates and their
peers hijacking vessels in the region made about $400 million in ransom
over the past eight years, according to a report published Friday.
Most of the funds came
from exchanging captives for ransom, an increasingly sophisticated
process mostly controlled from Somalia.
We here at
the Perspective Research Department would like to suggest that if these
pirates are going to continue spending the money on drugs and hookers,
they should not get any more cash until they learn a little
responsibility ……, and spend the loot in a more conservative manner!
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With the failed sale of Blackberry yesterday, the staff at
the Naked News department got together and collected $1,266.00 towards
the purchase of a controlling interest in the company!
We figure that if we can get together about ten grand to buy the struggling tech giant, the stock has nowhere to go but UP!
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