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211. Beautiful, perhaps; wild, most definitely, but friendly? Really, how can that possibly be, when there are suicide rates of 182 men and 33.1 women per 100,000?
Suicide Rates (per 100,000) — Various Countries
Source World Health Organization

Country Males Females
Lithuania 73.7 13.7
Russian Federation 72.9 13.7
Estonia 64.3 14.1
Latvia 59.5 11.8
Kazakhstan 51.9 9.5
Hungary 49.2 15.6
Belarus 48.7 9.6
Slovenia 48.0 13.9
Sri Lanka 44.7 16.6
Finland 38.7 10.7
Ukraine 38.2 9.2
Croatia 34.2 11.3
Republic of Moldova 30.9 6.2
Switzerland 30.9 12.2
France 30.4 10.8
Austria 30.0 10.0
Luxembourg 29.0 9.8
Belgium 26.7 11.0
Cuba 25.6 14.9
Bulgaria 25.3 9.7
Denmark 24.3 9.8
Japan 24.3 11.5
Poland 24.1 4.6
Czech Republic 24.0 6.8
New Zealand 23.6 5.8
Germany 22.1 8.1
Yugoslavia 21.6 9.2
Canada 21.5 5.4
Romania 21.1 4.3
Mauritius 20.6 6.4
Sweden 20.0 8.5
United States 19.3 4.4

Source World Health Organization

If it is so wonderful there why are your suicide rates higher than the US? You are the one who strated comparing Canada to the US and how MUCH better is there. You call ur stats so much better then the US but fail to realize you need to clean ur back yard. UR obvious hate towards Americans is showing like ur arse. And it is horrible how you say there is equality there yet your natives are as poorer then 70 third world country's.

""In fact, if the statistics for Canadian Aboriginal people were viewed separately from those of the rest of the country, Canada’s Aboriginal people would slip to 78 th on the UN Human Development Index – the ranking currently held by Kazakhstan. """"

ya we go high murder rates and a lot of other bad stuff goin on here, . We got people her coming in every minute by the thousands from all over and we end up supporting them through taxes. And it shows uo on our stats for poor and murder, in other words we are showing others countrys stats every day caus they have immigrayed here either legally or illeaglly. We got a lot more coning in then you have or will ever ALLOW.

Give us 30 million only ( Cnadas population) people instead odf 300 million ( US POPULATION) and lets look at the differences. If the US had the =same immigtation policys as you have y'all would be screaming racism left and right. Give me a break.

No wonder y'all are so rich u ony let the rich in AND you gotta pay C $1,500. PER PERSON just to step on the damn soil. And ur point system is great too.

Security deposits for those trying to get into Canada:

When you arrive in Canada, you must show you have a certain amount of money to help you settle before you find a job and accommodation. The amount you must bring depends on the number of people coming to Canada(ie, you alone, or you plus your family):
1 person approx $10,000 CAD
each additional person approx $2,000 CAD


Education (maximum 25 points)
You must have a college or university degree.
- College or Bachelor: 22 points
- Master/PhD: 25 points

Working Experience (maximum 21 points) -- 1 year: 15 points
- 2 years: 17 points
- 3 years: 19 points
- 4 years: 21 points

Age (maximum 10 points for 21-49 yrs of age)

Language Skills (maximum 25 points):
- First language: 16 points
- Second language: 8 points

Job Offer (max. 10 points):
Valid Job offer will bring you 10 points

Suitability (maximum 10 points): Determined in the interview after you apply to immigrate to Canada as a skilled immigrate applicant.


When in doubt about the intention of a temporary resident to live up to the terms of admission, the examining officer may require payment of a deposit, or the posting of a guarantee, prior to granting entry. Cash deposits will be returned as soon as possible after all entry conditions have been met.

We don;t make the poor which we get A LOT OF pay thousand to get in.

America takes the poor from all nations.

Canada picks and choose only the rich and thos who can bring big bucks and must have work exp and education.

* Still Laughing my arse off at YOU*

Posted at 7:48PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Anything BUT Neutral LMAO

212. America's socialists advocate that we adopt a universal healthcare system like our northern neighbor Canada. Before we buy into complete socialization of our healthcare system, we might check out the Canadian Supreme Court's June 9th ruling in Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General). It turns out that in order to prop up government-delivered medical care, Quebec and other Canadian provinces have outlawed private health insurance. By a 4 to 3 decision, Canada's high court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance. With all of the leftist hype extolling the "virtues" of Canada's universal healthcare system, you might wonder why any sane Canadian would want to purchase private insurance.

Plaintiffs Jacques Chaoulli, a physician, and his patient, George Zeliotis, launched their legal challenge to the government's monopolized healthcare system after having had to wait a year for hip-replacement surgery. In finding for the plaintiffs, Canada's high court said, "The evidence in this case shows that delays in the public healthcare system are widespread, and that, in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public healthcare. The evidence also demonstrates that the prohibition against private health insurance and its consequence of denying people vital healthcare result in physical and psychological suffering that meets a threshold test of seriousness." Writing for the majority,

Justice Marie Deschamps said, "Many patients on non-urgent waiting lists are in pain and cannot fully enjoy any real quality of life. The right to life and to personal inviolability is therefore affected by the waiting times."

The Vancouver, British Columbia-based Fraser Institute keeps track of Canadian waiting times for various medical procedures. According to the Fraser Institute's 14th annual edition of "Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada (2004)," total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and treatment, averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, rose from 17.7 weeks in 2003 to 17.9 weeks in 2004.
For example, depending on which Canadian province, an MRI requires a wait between 7 and 33 weeks.

Orthopaedic surgery might require a wait of 14 weeks for a referral from a general practitioner to the specialist and then another 24 weeks from the specialist to treatment. That statistic might help explain why Cleveland, Ohio, has become Canada's hip-replacement center.

As reported in a December 2003 story by Kerri Houston for the Frontiers of Freedom Institute titled "Access Denied: Canada's Healthcare System Turns Patients into Victims," in some instances, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin responded to the court's decision saying, "We're not going to have a two-tier healthcare system in this country.

What we want to do is strengthen the public healthcare system." That's the standard callous political response. He's telling Canadians to continue waiting, continue suffering and perhaps dying until the day comes when there's no more waiting. And though Canadian politicians can't give their citizens a date certain when there'll be no more waiting, they're determined to deny them alternatives to waiting for government-provided healthcare. I

'd bet you the rent money that Prime Minister Martin and members of the Canadian Parliament don't have to wait months and years for a medical procedure.

I wonder just how many Americans would like to import Canada's healthcare system, which prohibits the purchase of private insurance and private healthcare services. In British Columbia, for example, Bill 82 provides that a physician can be fined up to $20,000 for accepting fees for surgery. In my book, it's medical Naziism for government to prohibit a person who wishes to purchase medical services from doing so.



TORONTO (CP) - Patients who need an implantable cardiac defibrillator should wait no longer than seven or eight weeks for the procedure, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society said Tuesday.

Many of the estimated 35,000 sudden cardiac arrests that occur in Canada each year could be prevented if national wait-time benchmarks for implantation were established, the society said in a statement.
"The longer you wait to have an ICD (implantable cardiac defibrillator) implanted, the greater your risk of dropping dead. I

t's as simple as that," said Dr. Chris Simpson, president of the Canadian Heart Rhythm Society, which provided guidance on the issue to the cardiovascular society.

"We need to ensure that the appropriate patients get referred, get seen and get the device implanted in a timely way."

The wait-time recommendation is the first produced by the access to care working group of the cardiovascular society. It was based on guidelines developed by the society and the heart rhythm society.

The working group will eventually issue similar recommendations for all aspects of cardiovascular care.

"A national ICD registry and a comprehensive waiting list strategy are urgently needed to ensure that Canadians get access to this effective, life-saving treatment," said Dr. Blair O'Neill, chair of the working group.

Simpson, a cardiologist at Kingston General Hospital, said too few doctors refer patients for the implantable defibrillators, because of a perception that they aren't cost effective and the wait times are too long.

Posted at 9:35PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Aaron

213. And by the by Neutral the US has over 1.8 million immigrants, legal and illegal EACH year THAT FIGURE DOESNOT INCLUDE what is estimated at over one MILLION sneaking in which we do not know about. As compared to the paltry 175,000 Canada MAY ALLOW every year. Soooooooooooo about those stats again? Do ya think they may be a little skewed because of all the people flooding our shores? Or are u gonna keep with the hate ur spewing at America?

Do ya think y%u2019all COULD afford that wonderful %u201Cfree%u201D health care with those numbers coming in each year? Those who can%u2019t speak your languages or won%u2019t or can%u2019t work?

I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!

Ur the one who insisted Canada was better than the US no ONE started that crap BUT YOU. And about the war ya don%u2019t think that Tony Blair%u2019s intelligence persuaded Canada to jump into the war. AND if you think you are immune from the terrorists who are attacking the UK and Spain, They aren%u2019t American are they, %u201Csimply not neutral%u201D? Ur the one who insisted Canada was equal with socio-economic stats.

What about the Air India disaster and domestic separatist violence in Quebec and Ahmed Ressam? Want me to continue?


North Korea relations%u2026. Hummmmmmmm yeah Canada doesn%u2019t think twice about them blowing up the world with nuclear tests that affect different nations surrounding them with the fallout. OF course you would accept such because your %u201Cneutral%u201D hell Poppa can threaten to rape white women but thats a-ok with neutral cause it was only said to white women. It because of socio-economic problems!!! Yeah let%u2019s blame everything on class and not being responsible for ones own actions.

Now let%u2019s see who called agreed with the sanctions against N. Korea shall we?

Canada supports sanctioning N. Korea: MacKay
Updated Sun. Oct. 15 2006 11:32 PM ET

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061014/korea_nuclear_061015?s_name=&no_ads=

I%u2019ll bet the N. Koreans LOVE you for that now don%u2019t they?

Re-name yourself to Ostrich it would fit better. Don't suffocate while ur head is in the sand!!!!!!!!!! Call your bigot boyfriend if you need help with understanding some of this crap.

Posted at 10:45PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Anything BUT Neutral LMAO

214. @ Neutral #224

Quoting you:::

:::“We do think you spend too much on self defense. No argument there. How goes it in Iraq? BTW, you couldn't protect us from terrorists. No one can protect themselves from terrorists. They are multiplying by the minute. Sure most Christian nations will be terrorized to some extent. It goes hand in hand with Islamic mumbo, jumbo. Us too, but wait and see what they have in store for you. You will be much too preoccupied fighting them within America to even consider helping anyone else. You won't have much more to give at the end of the day. We will be taking you in as refugees and housing and feeding you and giving you some nice clean water as well.”:::


God you sound like a Jehovah Witness, almost wishing for Armageddon to come so “all the evil ones are gone”.

You are a vile sub- human on par with Poppa Civilize. Are you and he related?

Posted at 12:32AM on Dec 6th 2006 by Canadian without hatred here

215. The f***in N***** should'nt have been heckeling Michael Richards. I would have done the same thing but much worse. There are blacks who are cool, but then you have them f***ing N*****S, and no I am not prejudice, I hate everybody.

Posted at 2:47AM on Dec 6th 2006 by Peter Dragon

216.


LOL!!!! GOOD ONE @@@ Canadian without hatred here








Long Waits for Health Care Plague Canada


Written By: Sean Parnell
Published In: Health Care News
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: The Heartland Institute


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Canadians seeking health care continue to be plagued by long waits, according to a recent report from The Fraser Institute.

Released in October 2005, Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada found the median wait from the time a patient was referred by a general practitioner until the time he or she actually received treatment was 17.7 weeks. (Median wait means half of all patients waited less and half waited longer.)

The report by Nadeem Esmail, senior health policy analyst for Fraser, and Michael Walker, senior fellow and president of the Fraser Institute Foundation, was the fifteenth annual study of wait lists for health care in Canada.

Waits varied by province and by specialty, the study noted. Ontario had the shortest median wait at 16.3 weeks, while Saskatchewan had the longest, 25.5 weeks. Cancer patients had the shortest median wait--5.5 weeks for medical oncology and 5.7 weeks for radiation oncology. Orthopedic patients had the longest waits, at 40 weeks.

There is no comparable measurement for waits in the United States because health care generally remains in the private sector and long waits for needed care are typically not a problem.


Long Waits Harm Patients

Such long waits for needed care jeopardize patient health, according to many doctors and health policy experts. A 2004 survey of Canadian health care professionals, conducted by Ipsos-Reid on behalf of the Canadian Medical Association and Canadian Nurses Association, revealed significant concerns.

"The primary consequence of delayed access [to health care] is the worsening conditions of their patients," the survey found. It also reported 12 percent of physicians and 4 percent of nurses believe they have had patients die specifically because of long waits for needed care.

"Long waits can have several consequences," explains Dr. Robert Hamilton, a retired surgeon in Illinois. "Chronic conditions can become acute, with increased morbidity and mortality, and curable malignancies may become incurable." Hamilton also notes many orthopedic procedures, such as hip replacement and knee replacement, are done to relieve pain, which can be severe while a patient is forced to wait.

Canadians fed up with waiting months or even years for treatment are finding ways around the government-run system. CBS News reported in a March 20, 2005 story the tale of Jane Pelton of Ottawa, mother of a teenager who was told it would take up to three years for surgery to repair a torn knee ligament. Rather than watch her daughter wear a knee brace and suffer for three years, Pelton opted to go to a private clinic in Vancouver for surgery, which cost $3,300.

"Every day we're paying for health care, yet when we go to access it, it's just not there," said Pelton, in comments aimed at the government system her taxes pay for and is supposed to guarantee free care. "It's like somebody's telling you that you can buy this car, and you've paid for the car, but you can't have it right now."


Patients Sue for Care

Some Canadians have resorted to lawsuits to get the care they need in what they and their doctors believe is a reasonable time. In June 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Quebec could not ban private health insurance for services covered under the government-run system. The lawsuit was brought by a Canadian doctor, Jacques Chaoulli, and Montreal businessman George Zeliotis, who waited a year for hip replacement surgery.

"Access to a waiting list is not access to health care," the Supreme Court said in its ruling striking down Quebec's ban. (See "Canadian Health Care System Fails Court Test," by Grace-Marie Turner, Health Care News, August 2005, http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17494.)

A similar lawsuit was filed in Quebec on behalf of 10,000 women with breast cancer who were forced into long waits for radiation therapy. Anahit Cilinger was one such patient. After having a lymph node removed in October 1999, she was put on a waiting list for radiation therapy. Three months later and with no end to the waiting in sight, she traveled to her native Turkey and paid $12,000 for the treatment.

"I don't want other sick people to have to go through the kind of suffering I did," Cilinger told Ingrid Peretz of The Globe and Mail in a March 10, 2004 interview.


Budget Approach Main Culprit

Canada's government-run health care system has long been plagued by wait lists, due in large part to the system's reliance on global budgets as a cost-control measure. Under global budgets, the government sets an overall limit on how much it will pay for health care, which forces hospitals and doctors to restrict the availability of care.

John Graham, director of health care studies at the Pacific Research Institute and a former resident of Canada, has long criticized global budgets as the cause of long waits. "Generally speaking, provincial governments give fixed, global budgets to hospitals annually," Graham said. "Therefore, when a patient is admitted to a hospital, it costs the hospital money instead of earning it. This means hospitals have no incentive to cut down waiting lists."

In the United States, several states have considered enacting a single-payer system that would impose global budgets on health care spending for their citizens. California and Oregon voters have rejected initiatives to establish single-payer systems, and in 2005 Vermont's state legislature passed a scaled-down single-payer bill that was later vetoed by Gov. Jim Douglas (R).


Long Waits Likely to Continue

The authors of Waiting Your Turn do not see an end to excessive waits for needed care in Canada any time soon. The Canadian federal government pledged in 2004 to increase spending on health care by $41 billion (Canadian) over the next 10 years to address wait lists, but Esmail and Walker point to the fact that additional spending in the past has not led to reductions in wait times.

"[P]rovinces that spend more on health care are not rewarded with shorter waiting lists," Esmail and Walker write. They conclude that as long as Canada keeps a single-payer health care system, Canadian patients will continue to be forced into long waits for needed care. "[U]nder the current regime--first-dollar coverage with use limited by waiting, and crucial medical resources priced and allocated by government--prospects for improvement are dim."

"Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures," Esmail told Health Care News. "These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care: long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada."

http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/admin/books/chapterfiles/wyt2005.pdf

Posted at 2:18AM on Dec 6th 2006 by Anything BUT Neutral LMAO