Proud to be Canadian

Now it's my time to boast. Read below for recent news on how great Canada is (in case you didn't already know:)

Taken from
http://www.english-vancouver.com/canada-human-development/

"Vancouver is Third in World in Annual Quality of Life Survey

Vancouver ranked third overall in the 2005 annual "Quality of Life Survey", published by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. This year's score matches Vancouver's previous score in the 2004 Quality of Life survey.

Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland were tied for first place with scores of 106.5. Vancouver's score was 106, which tied it with Vienna, Austria. Other Canadian cities, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal , and Calgary took 14th, 20th, 22nd and 25th place, respectively.

All five Canadian cities in the survey were praised for their relatively high levels of "personal safety and security" and for being in a politically stable country, according to a report from CBC News (see below).

Vancouver 3rd in world in quality of life survey
CBC News, March 14, 2005
World-wide quality of life survey
Mercer Human Resource Consulting, March 14, 2005

For almost a decade (up to the year 2001), Canada was ranked number one among 175 countries in the United Nation's Quality of Life survey.

Canada still manages to maintain a relatively high standard today. According to the 2004 UN Human Development Index, Canada was ranked fourth overall."

Well pretty darn good eh? Who said we were modest people...