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Hola,
Esta es la página web del que yo estoy haciendo. No conozco otra institución que haga lo mismo pero seguro que la debe haber en Manitoba.
http://www.dpcdsb.org/coopcentre
Saludos,
Juan García

Dirección:

[url]http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/freeheadlines/LAC/20030705/UHUMAN/national/National[/url]

Artículo:

Canada falls from third to eighth in UN quality-of-life ranking
By ROBERT MATAS
Saturday, July 5, 2003 – Page A9

Just when Canadians started feeling good about themselves over winning the race to play host to the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United Nations has pulled Canada down a few notches on its annual quality-of-life ranking.

In a report to be officially released next week, Canada placed eighth in a ranking of 175 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index.

Canada had owned the No. 1 spot throughout most of the 1990s but fell behind Norway in 2001. Last year Sweden squeezed by, pushing Canada down to third place.

Measured on the basis of life expectancy, educational achievements and real income, Canada was also surpassed this year by Iceland, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States.

Canada’s biggest handicaps were the low Canadian dollar at the time the ranking was compiled and the rising proportion of new Canadians who have not completed university programs, an official with the UN development program said in an interview yesterday from New York.

Spokesmen from the development program would not comment on the report before its official release on Tuesday.

However, the official, who asked to remain anonymous, said Canada is penalized under the approach adopted by the UN agency for being a more open and heterogenous country.

Scandanavian countries, with more homogenous societies and greater reliance on the state, have higher rankings in the area of educational achievements, he said.

The official also cautioned against reading too much into Canada’s sinking status in the world. "The difference between eighth place and first place is really quite small," he said. "It could be attributed to statistical fluctuations. They are so close together . . . it does not really mean anything.

"If you looked at the difference between Canada and Sierra Leone [which is at the bottom of the list], you would really see some major differences," he said.

The Human Development Report, commissioned by the UNDP, ranks countries of the world according to their level of human development.

Norway achieved a rating of 0.944 on the human development index. Iceland, in the No. 2 spot, was 0.942; Sweden, 0.941; and Australia, 0.939.

Belgium, the United States and Canada all rated 0.937.

Although Canada is dropping by comparison to others, it appears to be achieving significant gains when measured against itself. The quality of life in Canada has been improving continually since 1975, when Canada registered 0.866 on the human development index.

Among the top eight, Canada had the third-highest life expectancy at 79.2 years, trailing Sweden (79.9 years) and Iceland (79.6 years). During the years 1970 to 1975, life expectancy in Canada was 73.2 years.

The infant mortality rate in 2001 was five per 1,000 births, compared with 19 per 1,000 births in 1975.

Canada has also improved in the area of education. Enrolment in primary schools increased to 99 per cent in 2000, compared with 97 per cent in 1990. Enrolment in secondary schools increased to 98 per cent in 2000, compared with 89 per cent in 1990.

Canada was tied with the United States on education but trailed on a comparison of gross domestic product on a per capita basis. The per capita GDP in Canada was $27,130 (U.S.) compared with $34,320 (U.S.) in the United States.

But even in the area of the economy, Canada did significantly better over the years. The annual growth rate from 1975 to 2001 was 1.5 per cent. But in the 1990s, the annual growth rate was 2.1 per cent.

The report also identifies 59 countries requiring intensified efforts to meet goals set by world leaders at a UN summit in September, 2000.

The goals range from reversing and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases to achieving universal primary education and lifting millions of people out of extreme poverty by 2015.

Hola Rodolfo,

¡Felicitaciones! Nosotros (yo y mi esposa Silvia) vamos a Mississauga a mediados de Septiembre. Nos gustaría tu correo para comenzar una amistad y darnos un apoyo cuando estemos empezando… que será bien duro.

Mi correo es [email protected] y estoy en el Messenger con bastante frecuencia.

Un abrazo,

Juan Carlos García.

Yo particularmente pienso que ambos, los que se quedan y los que se van, tienen mis respetos.

Los que se quedan a luchar por el país, los que se van para ayudar de alguna forma a su país natal, los que no se van porque simplemente no se ven en otros lares, los que se van porque quieren su mejoría y solo vendrán de visita o vacaciones, los que ni siquiera se han preguntado si se van a o no se van; todos son casos diferentes y los únicos que los pueden juzgar son ellos mismos.

En cambio, los que se quedan a robar, a seguir haciéndose el vivo, a pisotear a sus semejantes, los que se van a seguir haciendo estas cosas en otros países, a esos sí hay que criticarlos y ponerlos por el suelo porque no son buenos para nadie, ni siquiera para ellos mismos.

Pienso que si uno es buena persona, con ganas de salir adelante y prosperar, no importa si se queda o se va. Es simplemente la decisión de cada quien, y no tiene porque ser una decisión mala, buena o criticable, es simplemente la decisión de cada quien.

Así que no se intimiden o se sientan mal por inmigrar.

Un saludo,

Juan Carlos García.