Reply #14: oh dear, Unca Oma

[iverglas]

Driven to stray from the script so soon??

p.s., that one was kinda funny. I trust I will be forgiven since it wasn't the post itself that offended, it was the poster:

"I killed myself 3 times this year already....Canada does that to a person...so dark and cold."

(And there's actually a point; suicide rates are higher in Nordic countries, with no apparent explanation other than their nordicness as the common factor. Canada also has a horrific problem with northern First Nations and Innuit communities with suicide rates that would make your head explode, to go with the unsafe drinking water, crowded substandard housing, lack of sewage treatment, poor access to health and education services, widespread alcoholism and drug addiction ... and gasoline sniffing ... if those numbers were deducted from Canada's total there would probably be a significantly different rate. Not by any means that those deaths should be disregarded; they are symptomatic of the godawful living conditions that need to be addressed, but that nobody really knows how to fix, for tiny communities living on the edge of nowhere, where simply supplying groceries calls for a feat of modern transportation at the cost that can be imagined.)