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[Hans]

"In the past, the American results have been shockingly poor. In the last survey, taken in 1995, students from only two countries—Cyprus and South Africa—scored lower than U.S. school kids."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20205125/site/newsweek/

[GenX]

Canadian teens have flunked the health test for a third year straight, and are running the risk of having shorter lifespans than their parents.

Active Healthy Kids Canada dished out a ‘D' for physical activity levels of teens, saying they've reached an all-time low. Only immediate action to empower a change will help, the charity group says.

LINK

# 17% of all high school graduates in Canada are illiterate (Southam Survey)

# 40% of Canadians can't read due lo limited or nonexistent reading skills (Statistics Canada Report,1989)

# The dropout rate is approaching 30%!

LINK

Canada lags behind other developed countries in child care and needs to set up a national, publicly-funded system to cure the problem, says the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

A new report by the respected international organization recommends that Ottawa and the provinces pay 40% each for the cost of an adequate national day care program, while parents fund the remaining 20%.

While more Canadian mothers with young children work outside the home than in almost any other country, Canada invests less than half of what other developed nations devote on average to early-childhood education, the report says.

LINK

Canadian students are finishing high school without a basic understanding of their country's history,
and schools are ignoring the subject in favour of a new fixation with math and science, the
Dominion Institute says

LINK

[Hans]

And that pertains to me how?

[GenX]

You should be more worried about the morons wandering your city streets than of anything that goes on in the U.S.

[Hans]

If I have a choice between morons wandering the streets or morons executing school kids, I gladly stay at this site of the border.

[GenX]

Makes a lot of sense, as usual.

[Hans]

I does for those of us who are not used to gang violence, ghetto's, or even having to lock our doors.

[GenX]

You haven't been to Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary...

[Hans]

Have you been to all those places?

[GenX]

directly from Statistics Canada's most recent justice stats for 2004. Still, it is a curious number to highlight.

Violent crime in this country rose steadily during the 1960s, '70s and '80s

LINK

Stats Canada's 2006 survey of crime has Winnipeg leading the country in several categories.
It will come as no surprise to any Winnipegger who's had his or her car stolen, garage broken into or corner convenience store robbed -- the manitoba capital has the highest crime rate among major cities in CANADA.

LINK

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hans</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you been to all those places? </div></div>

Toronto.



How many big American cities have you been to?

Brimley doesn't count.

[Hans]

I have been there also! And Detroit. Does that count as a big city? Also been in Brussels, Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and I was close to Rome.
And a bunch of others I forgot about over time.

[GenX]

Can I have your autograph?

[Hans]

Sure, if you want.

[GenX]

On second thought...

[GenX]

Hans, do your relatives in Belgium now consider you Hans across the water?

[Hans]

I dunno, why don't you ask them?

[GenX]

What's the number to the Belgian insane asylum?

[Hans]

Well, I have better things to do then falling below basement level. We will speak again once you have found some words to use that almost make sense.

[GenX]

Don't leave me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!