Annex Canada

[tooblue]

I agree with the bolded sentence. The question is whether the citizens of Canada have the collective political will to actually tap those resources or whether they will make economically suicidal decisions similar to how Germany shut down all their nuclear plants.

Canada is doubling down on nuclear. I live within thirty minutes of two massive nuclear power plants and a third even larger one is four hours away. I can't drive down the street without hearing a government ad on the radio talking about how Canada is investing in microreactors:

https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2026/04/government-of-canada-commits-to-new-strategy-for-nuclear-energy.html

Canada wants to build up to 10 new nuclear plants.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/nuclear-strategy-pensions-electricity-9.7257049

[Jeff Lebowski]

Canada is doubling down on nuclear. I live within thirty minutes of two massive nuclear power plants and a third even larger one is four hours away. I can't drive down the street without hearing a government ad on the radio talking about how Canada is investing in microreactors:

https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2026/04/government-of-canada-commits-to-new-strategy-for-nuclear-energy.html

Canada wants to build up to 10 new nuclear plants.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/nucl...city-9.7257049

Fantastic. Go Canada.

[frank ryan]

So google changed it to Lake America for US users. Jeff is right Trump is tardado

[dabrockster]

MAID program is doing well in Canada. “ Family sounds alarm after 83-year-old grandma dies under Canada's assisted-death program.”

According to the BBC, Canada’s MAID law, which legalized euthanasia in 2016, is responsible for one in every 20 deaths in Canada.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/family-sounds-alarm-83-year-old-woman-dies-canadas-assisted-death-program

[tooblue]

MAID program is doing well in Canada. “ Family sounds alarm after 83-year-old grandma dies under Canada's assisted-death program.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/family-sounds-alarm-83-year-old-woman-dies-canadas-assisted-death-program

Some context to those stats:

The highest cause of death among Canadians is Cancer. This is largely because Canadians have a longer average life expectancy than Americans and as a result develop age-related cancers.

There are many states in the US (13) that have legalized assisted dying laws. Oregon’s assisted dying laws pre-date Canada’s by decades. I do not support MAID. I imagine more details about the story in your link will come to light, beyond what is being the sensational shared by Fox news or other outlets. The situation is under investigation by police.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Some context to those stats:

The highest cause of death among Canadians is Cancer. This is largely because Canadians have a longer average life expectancy than Americans and as a result develop age-related cancers.

Interesting.

I looked it up. Age related cancer deaths per 100,000 people: Canada - 174, USA - 164.

There are many states in the US (13) that have legalized assisted dying laws. Oregon’s assisted dying laws pre-date Canada’s by decades. I do not support MAID. I imagine more details about the story in your link will come to light, beyond what is being the sensational shared by Fox news or other outlets. The situation is under investigation by police.

Wait. Are you tell using that Oregon has some ridiculous laws the do not value human life? I am shocked.

[tooblue]

Interesting.

I looked it up. Age related cancer deaths per 100,000 people: Canada - 174, USA - 164.



Wait. Are you tell using that Oregon has some ridiculous laws the do not value human life? I am shocked.

I was curious and there are studies about why Canadians live longer than Americans on average:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2873793/?utm_source=gemini

From the Abstract:

"The objective of the paper is to compare population health in the United States (US) and Canada. Although the two countries are very similar in many ways, there are potentially important differences in the levels of social and economic inequality and the organization and financing of and access to health care in the two countries ...

... The population of Canada appears to be substantially healthier than the US population with respect to life expectancy, HRQL, and HALE. Factors that account for the difference may include access to health care over the full life span (universal health insurance) and lower levels of social and economic inequality, especially among the elderly."

Maybe the US needs to annex Canada!

[Jeff Lebowski]

linky no worky

[tooblue]

linky no worky

The site is really slow (maybe being updated, or a conspiracy ) but it eventually works.

[dabrockster]

I was curious and there are studies about why Canadians live longer than Americans on average:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2873793/?utm_source=gemini

From the Abstract:

"The objective of the paper is to compare population health in the United States (US) and Canada. Although the two countries are very similar in many ways, there are potentially important differences in the levels of social and economic inequality and the organization and financing of and access to health care in the two countries ...

... The population of Canada appears to be substantially healthier than the US population with respect to life expectancy, HRQL, and HALE. Factors that account for the difference may include access to health care over the full life span (universal health insurance) and lower levels of social and economic inequality, especially among the elderly."

Maybe the US needs to annex Canada!

Wait.. You mean a report that is favorable to Canada is based on research and healthcare company solely in Canada..


Competing interests

It should be noted that DF has a proprietary interest in Health Utilities Incorporated (HUInc.), Dundas, Ontario, Canada. HUInc. distributes copyrighted Health Utilities Index (HUI) materials and provides methodological advice on the use of HUI. It should be noted that HUInc. received no payment for the use of HUI in the survey discussed in this manuscript. None of the other authors declare any competing interests.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yeah, that study sounds fishy.

Lots of research showing that the US has lower life expectancy compared other developed/wealthy countries (including Canada) in large part due to 3 things:

1) high obesity - US diet is terrible. Too much junk, sugar, etc.

2) more automobile use - in Europe you are much more likely to use public transportation which is safer. US is so large that few places have the density to support european or japanese style public transportation infrastructure. More cars = more accidents

3) drug use - US has had an extreme epidemic of drug deaths. fentanyl, oxycontin, etc.

4) guns - homicides and suicides via firearms are high

The U.S. has excess mortality at young and middle ages, including deaths from drugs, firearms, motor vehicles, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disease. Those premature deaths pull American life expectancy downward substantially. Canada has fewer of many of those deaths. Drug overdoses disproportionately kill people in their 20s–50s. A death at 35 has an enormous effect on national life expectancy compared with a cancer death at 82.

Not really an income inequality thing either. Even relatively advantaged Americans often have worse outcomes than comparable people in other wealthy countries.

I know Canadians love to pretend that the life expectancy gap is due to their socialized medicine but that simply isn't the case.

[LVAllen]

So Americans eat terrible food, are unhappy to the point that they take drugs to cope with their terrible lives or terrible healthcare, commit suicide because of terrible mental health care, and their government doesn't care enough about them to invest in projects that will make them safer in the areas where population density and the number of motor vehicle collisions actively drag down the national life expectancy.

I don't know, Jeff. Seems like Canada and Europe have a few things figured out.

[tooblue]

Yeah, that study sounds fishy.

Wait.. You mean a report that is favorable to Canada is based on research and healthcare company solely in Canada..


Competing interests

It should be noted that DF has a proprietary interest in Health Utilities Incorporated (HUInc.), Dundas, Ontario, Canada. HUInc. distributes copyrighted Health Utilities Index (HUI) materials and provides methodological advice on the use of HUI. It should be noted that HUInc. received no payment for the use of HUI in the survey discussed in this manuscript. None of the other authors declare any competing interests.

Here are some links to many other supporting sources of, or that cite the study (compiled with Claude) ...

• Life expectancy comparison data (UN World Population Prospects): https://georank.org/life-expectancy/.../united-states
• Cause-specific life expectancy decomposition (US, Canada, Latin America, 2000–2019): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12626234/
• "Why Do Canadians Outlive Americans?" — Population Reference Bureau: https://www.prb.org/news/why-do-cana...ive-americans/
• "The Relationship of Health Insurance and Mortality: Is Lack of Insurance Deadly?" — Annals of Internal Medicine(2017): https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M17-1403 (PubMed abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28655034/)
• Wilper et al., "Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults" — AJPH (2009): https://ajph.aphapublications.org/do...PH.2008.157685
• Harvard Gazette coverage of the Wilper study: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto...alth-coverage/
• Commonwealth Fund summary on deaths attributed to lack of insurance: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub...alth-insurance
• PNHP summary of the 2017 evidence review: https://pnhp.org/news/lack-of-health...u-s-mortality/

The UN World Population Prospects ... is the official series of global population estimates and future forecasts produced by the UN Population Division.

PubMed ... is a free full-text digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

The Population Reference Bureau ... is a private, nonpartisan nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that analyzes and translates complex global demographic data into accessible insights for policymakers, educators, and the public.

The Annals of Internal Medicine ... is is a top-tier, peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American College of Physicians (ACP).

The AJHP ... is American Journal of Public Health, a monthly peer-reviewed public health publication.

The Harvard Gazette ... the official news website and publication of Harvard University.

... so ya lol. The study is not fishy, and is supported by peer reviewed and highly respected sources.

[Jeff Lebowski]

So Americans eat terrible food, are unhappy to the point that they take drugs to cope with their terrible lives or terrible healthcare, commit suicide because of terrible mental health care, and their government doesn't care enough about them to invest in projects that will make them safer in the areas where population density and the number of motor vehicle collisions actively drag down the national life expectancy.

I don't know, Jeff. Seems like Canada and Europe have a few things figured out.

Time to move there!

Sadly, Canada is full of Canadians. Deal killer.

[tooblue]

So Americans eat terrible food, are unhappy to the point that they take drugs to cope with their terrible lives or terrible healthcare, commit suicide because of terrible mental health care, and their government doesn't care enough about them to invest in projects that will make them safer in the areas where population density and the number of motor vehicle collisions actively drag down the national life expectancy.

I don't know, Jeff. Seems like Canada and Europe have a few things figured out.

Time to move there!

Sadly, Canada is full of Canadians. Deal killer.

The diet in Canada is identical to the US, except maybe poutine ... poutine is disgusting