Canadian News
Instapundit links to a Globe and Mail op-ed about new Canadian Prime Minister Whatsisname's problems -- he seems to be catching all the blame for what the previous PM shoved under the rug. Fun stuff, but this led to a few other Canadian tidbits:
- Irony alert: Since Canada generally will not extradite persons charged with capital crimes if they face the death penalty (Charles Ng who killed a number of folks in Northern California being a notable exception, after many years of wrangling), one would think that they would never even consider extraditing a North Korean defector back to the Dear Leadership who is not charged with any crime, other than defection. Think again.
- Single-payer meltdown: Many Democrat presidential candidates advocate a "Canadian-style" single-payer Health Service to replace the current system in the US. How's that working out in Canada? Not well: see here and here. Money quote:
When 40 cents of every dollar goes to health care, and those costs are increasing 8 to 10 per cent a year, we've got a problem. Our current system is not sustainable. So we've got to look at innovative ways to do that.
- Weird science: Researchers in Calgary seem to have a method of transferring information between silicon chips and living nerve cells, to the extent that the behavior of one can be influenced by the other. This may or may not be good news.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at February 20, 2004 09:00 AM
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