Steve_P

Canada is trailing other top Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in key socio-economic areas, according to a new report.
The group, which represents countries "committed to democracy and the market economy," said Canada's performance is mediocre.
Canada, along with 16 other countries, was graded on six areas: economy, environment, innovation, education, health and society.


Balance of piece here: http://cfcn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe..._report_070613

Novocastrian

"Canada ranked 8th for health, because of relatively high mortality rates due to diabetes and lung cancer, along with the number of women who die from heat disease."

I nominate this extract as funniest typo of the year.

dbd33

This is interesting "the report cautioned that more than 7.5 million adult Canadians have low basic skills and literacy". If there are only 30 million people in Canada, 7.5 million is a very large proportion of the adult population. Consequence of being a nation of immigrants, I guess.

Madmac

Literacy in what language?

Basic skills - as in ordering a 'double double' or sorting the correct change for a bus?

It depends on what skills they came in with or if indeed the survey results reflect the immigrant factor?

dbd33

English or French, I suppose. Most people are literate in something but perhaps not something that counts.

Madmac

I would have thought fluency in Mandarin or Cantonese on the West coast would have been more useful? Certainly in areas around here a familiarity with Asian languages would be better placed than either English or French.

hot wasabi peas

I'm toast.

steve666

Toast? You have disease of the 'heat' ?

Oakvillian

I think she might have been OK if the Wasabi was milder...

steve666

Hey, two jokes wrapped around the concept of heat! Cool.