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Submitted by David on Wed, 2012-05-02 14:52
Is it a sin to fly?
"The Bishop of London thinks so. What's your view?" Why am I not surprised that the bishop in question was Anglican?
Mobile Service in Canada: Overpriced and Anti-Competitive [Study]
"Seabord suggests that the implementation of mobile services in Canada cost around $196 per user from the beginning of operations until 2000 versus $292 per user in the US. In 2008, mobile operators Bell and Telus indicated that they would invest around $500 million in a new HSPA network. However, in New Zealand, a country 37 times smaller than Canada, a similar network cost $400 million. Thus, the arguments of higher operating costs due to geography are not accurate."
No alternative to austerity
"Mr Hollande says that he will replace austerity with growth. Why didn’t anybody think of that before? ... If building great roads and trains were the route to lasting prosperity, Greece and Spain would be booming."
Tackle the pension problem now
"the average assets to liabilities ratio of Canadian pension funds is 63%, which is well below fully funded levels". This seem to be a pro-defined-benefit-pension article. However, unless you were to do something like index the retirement age to some percentile of life expectancy, as people live longer a defined-benefit system doesn't seem particularly sustainable.
Study of the Day: Women Are Much Happier When Men Feel Their Pain
”According to recent research, men and women derive satisfaction from their partner's ability to empathize in vastly different ways.”

Comments

Ronik

Wed, 2012-05-02 17:27

I know Canada's big compared to New Zealand, but that's hardly the only factor in cell coverage. We only have comparatively very little of our landmass with a decent population. We have one of the lowest population densities in the world. Not saying our system doesn't suck, but still... 16.59 people per square kilometer in NZ and 3.5 in Canada.

David

Wed, 2012-05-02 18:13

The offsetting factor for Canada; "just 15% of the country is covered by mobile services"