Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!peterr From: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Buy Local. Message-ID: <1334@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 12:59:48 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1334 Posted: Sun Aug 18 12:59:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 13:23:34 EDT References: <5770@utzoo.UUCP> <16066@watmath.UUCP> <5864@utzoo.UUCP> <16149@watmath.UUCP> <322@looking.UUCP> <16201@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 20 As another example of things being cheaper in Canada... it rarely makes sense to buy books, particularly paperbacks, in the U.S. unless it's a question of not being able to find them in Canada. If you look at paperbacks, you will see two prices: one for the US, one for Canada. I have never seen any Cdn price > 1.35*US price, not even close. In fact, a month or so ago, the front page of the Globe and Mail contained a short story reporting that over the past decade, Canadian income kept pace (even did better than) the cost of living, while the opposite was true in the U.S. While we're comparing, Canada spends less of its GNP on health care, yet has universal medicare-- i.e. no-one being tossed out of a hospital because they couldn't get health insurance such as happens in the U.S. This really is a pretty decent place to live. p. rowley, U. Toronto