Canadian Facts

[bubba zanetti]

98% of Canadians say "Oh Shit!" before going into the ditch on an icy curve. The other 2% are from the Kootenays and say "hold my beer and watch this".

Pamela Anderson was the first baby born on July 1, 1967 and so became famous as the "Centennial Baby" during our 100th year.

[Kootenanny]

This might be an appropriate place--just saw this in another thread:

I entered. When you select the state.... where in hell is "Nunavut?"  

Of course, I had to answer, with some pics I took when I was there:

[alphabet man]

98% of Canadians say "Oh Shit!" before going into the ditch on an icy curve. The other 2% are from the Kootenays and say "hold my beer and watch this".

 92% of all Canadians start loosing their mind around the shortest day of the year, symptoms are nervous twitches, sweating, spending way to much time in motorcycle forums posting video's of beer cams and starting nonsensical threads
  Long trips to the area's near the equator, skiing, snowshoeing or snowmobiling is the usual cure

       Hey Bubba Merry Christmas (yes Merry Christmas not happy Holiday's) give my best to the whole gang, hopefully we be able to get together for some Christmas cheer when I come down to see Mom.

 kootenanny all I can say "Brrr frigin Brrrrr"

[veefer800canuck]

Fact: it was -17 here yesterday with a 43 MPH wind.    


And I was out working in it.  

[hig4s]

This might be an appropriate place--just saw this in another thread:





Of course, I had to answer, with some pics I took when I was there:

From the lack of snow, would this have been late summer??

[Kootenanny]

From the lack of snow, would this have been late summer??

In summer the snow melts...keep in mind, for six weeks around the end of June there is 24 hour sunlight (just as for 6 weeks around Christmas, there is no sun--actually, not as bad as some think, as the sun does get close enough to the horizon that there is twilight for several hours each day)

The pics were taken in early fall...but actually, the snow seldom gets as deep as some might think there.  During one visit there, we endured a 3-day blizzard--one of those storms you read about, where you can get lost in the whiteout within a few feet and therefore no-one goes outside unless they absolutely have to (most business in town shuts down, etc.)--but afterwards, the dirt streets were still quite bare, although every house had a drift up to the roof on the downwind side.  There is a lot of snow, but there is so much wind the snow only settles in drifts.

You wanna see deep snow, go to Kitimat on the BC coast!

[Corbeau]

You want to see deep snow? Visit Ottawa*, winter of 70-71, when we received 15 feet of snow.

*You'll have to find your own stinkin' time machine, I'm not supplying it, OK?

[motomodo]

I read somewhere that 10% of the population of Canada goes to Florida, Texas, or Arizona for the winter.

[dinolee]

You want to see deep snow? Visit Ottawa*, winter of 70-71, when we received 15 feet of snow.

AH HA! A poseur Canadian...  No self-respecting Canuck ever uses English Unit of measurement.  Please turn in your Molson bottle opener and hockey stick as you leave.  

[Mrs. DantesDame]

AH HA! A poseur Canadian...  No self-respecting Canuck ever uses English Unit of measurement.  Please turn in your Molson bottle opener and hockey stick as you leave.  

Corbeau's been busted!!!!

[bubba zanetti]

Corbeau's been busted!!!!

In 70 - 71 we were not yet on metric so he is just being historically correct. Which, as you know, is another Canadian trait.  

[Mrs. DantesDame]

In 70 - 71 we were not yet on metric so he is just being historically correct. Which, as you know, is another Canadian trait.  

So now you're calling Corbeau old??  

[hig4s]

The pics were taken in early fall...

You mean Sept/Oct !!!! that is late summer here!!!!  The ocean water is usually still warm (in the mid 70s) until November    

But I do know what you mean about snow. I lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan back in the early 70s. some areas got a ton of snow, some not that much at all.. Depending on how close you were to open water.

[Acadian Rider]

Moncton is the city in Canada where the people are the most polite according to a Readers Digest test.  

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2007/11/courtesy/main.php

[RickC1957]

So now you're calling Corbeau old??  

As old as the snow of 70-71

[00buck]

You want to see deep snow? Visit Ottawa*, winter of 70-71, when we received 15 feet of snow.

/size]

Hey I remember that.  I was 16 and that was my last winter in Ottawa. I remember walking up the snowdrifts and stepping onto the roof of our house. The view out my bedroom window for months was a solid bank of snow. I opened the window and tunneled into it. It was a good place to hide booze!

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Guns vs. Doctors

Here's a new twist on the firearms issue.

Doctors:

1. The number of doctors in Canada is 700,000

2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000

3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

1. The number of guns owned in Canada is 80,000,000 (yes that's 80 million)

2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500

3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%

Statistics courtesy of the RCMP

So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, guns don't kill people, doctors do.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic

and seek medical attention. Then we would be in real trouble.  

   

[Acadian Rider]

Guns vs. Doctors

Here's a new twist on the firearms issue.

Doctors:

1. The number of doctors in Canada is 700,000

2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000

3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

1. The number of guns owned in Canada is 80,000,000 (yes that's 80 million)

2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500

3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%

Statistics courtesy of the RCMP

So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, guns don't kill people, doctors do.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic

and seek medical attention. Then we would be in real trouble.  

    

Links please.  

Tell me you're trolling.  

700,000 doctors.    What kind of doctors are you talking about?    

If you're talking about physicians, the Canadian Medical Association on their web site talks about 65,000 members.  

http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/44426/la_id/1.htm

[Baz]

Moncton is the city in Canada where the people are the most polite according to a Readers Digest test.  

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2007/11/courtesy/main.php

Ha! I would bet money Leon that these polsters were not anywhere to be seen at closing time!

[Baz]

Hey I remember that.  I was 16 and that was my last winter in Ottawa. I remember walking up the snowdrifts and stepping onto the roof of our house. The view out my bedroom window for months was a solid bank of snow. I opened the window and tunneled into it. It was a good place to hide booze!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Guns vs. Doctors

Here's a new twist on the firearms issue.

Doctors:

1. The number of doctors in Canada is 700,000

2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000

3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

1. The number of guns owned in Canada is 80,000,000 (yes that's 80 million)

2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500

3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%

Statistics courtesy of the RCMP

So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, guns don't kill people, doctors do.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic

and seek medical attention. Then we would be in real trouble.  

    

And if I remember correctly from my restricted firearms course, something like 80% of gun deaths in Canada are a result of suicides.

[zc1]

...
2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000
3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%
...
Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

I agree with the previous poster asking for links to this info or citations for the references.

1. What exactly is the "Canadian Department of Health and Human Services"?  Do they have a website?  I tried to find it through Google and was unable to find any such entity.

2. What gets classified as an accidental death and how do you determine that a physician caused it?  Does any in-hospital death get classified as accidental?  That'd be strange.  I would think most people who come into hospital and die there were dying before they got there and that the physicians just weren't able to prevent the death (as opposed to actually causing it).  For example, if someone goes into hospital with chest pain and is then determined to be having a heart attack, is treated according to current standard of care and dies anyway then do they call that an accidental death?  Do "they" (the "Canadian Dept. of Health and Human Services"...if it exists) then and attribute the death to any and all physicians involved in the care of that patient?

3.  What exactly does an "accidental deaths per physician" of 17% mean?  Does it mean that 17% of each physician's patients die each year?

4.  Do you really believe that there are 120,000 accidental deaths caused by physicians each year in Canada?  Your post doesn't specify that that number is for Canada alone, but since you mentioned that supposedly Canadian agency I assume that the number is for Canada, alone.  According to Statistics Canada there are only 240,000 deaths per year in Canada.  It seems odd to me that 1/2 of them would be physician-associated with respect to etiology.  You can check out the mortality figures from Statistics Canada yourself: http://www40.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/getcans/sorth.cgi?lan=eng&dtype=fina&filename=demo07a.htm&sortact=2&sortf=6

...Anyway, love the use of stats online.  So much gets thrown around as fact.  Although I don't have any stats to back it up, I'm pretty sure "so much" isn't an overestimate.

[spinalator]

...Anyway, love the use of stats online.  So much gets thrown around as fact.

65% of the population agrees with you, 80% of the time. That is what mother said anyway.

[zc1]

65% of the population agrees with you, 80% of the time. That is what mother said anyway.

But my sister's boyfriend's uncle said...

Just kidding.  I believe you.  I saw it in Wikipedia so it must be true...

[Lazarus]

Hey I remember that.  I was 16 and that was my last winter in Ottawa. I remember walking up the snowdrifts and stepping onto the roof of our house. The view out my bedroom window for months was a solid bank of snow. I opened the window and tunneled into it. It was a good place to hide booze!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Guns vs. Doctors

Here's a new twist on the firearms issue.

Doctors:

1. The number of doctors in Canada is 700,000

2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000

3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

1. The number of guns owned in Canada is 80,000,000 (yes that's 80 million)

2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500

3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%

Statistics courtesy of the RCMP

So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, guns don't kill people, doctors do.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic

and seek medical attention. Then we would be in real trouble.   Crazy

It's just a stupid internet forward that's been around for at least 10 years.  The original, however, claimed to be talking about the U.S.  

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/drguns.html

[Baz]

You're not one of them bleeding heart liberals are ya? Huh?  

[Mac]

You're not one of them bleeding heart liberals are ya? Huh?  

They have those in Canada too?

[Lazarus]

You're not one of them bleeding heart liberals are ya? Huh?  

Shouldn't that be spelled "lubrul moonbat" or something?  

I'm actually one of those weird people who doesn't fit or identify with any particular political ideology - My beliefs are all over the map as far as politics are concerned.  I just intensely dislike stupid, misleading bullshite masquerading as truth whatever the source.  I guess that just means that politicians of any stripe tend to piss me off.

[Stokely Van Camp]

You have to be careful with statistics....

64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot
82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not

[Kool shades]

The worst thing about percentages is that 90 % of the time, its 50-50...

[Against The Wind]

I resemble that remark.

[Against The Wind]

...but only half the time.