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From: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Buy Local.
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 12:59:48 EDT
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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