Technically there are no Bible Belts in Canada. The term is an Americanism applicable to certain areas in the USA.
I was using the term loosely and as it turns out, AB is less Bible Belted than the eastern provinces.
The "Bible Belts" in Canuckville
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I was using the term loosely and as it turns out, AB is less Bible Belted than the eastern provinces.
There is a 30 or 40 mile strip in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia that is known as a Bible Belt where Bible Thumpers and Social Crediters used to thrive. That is the only context I'm really familiar with.
Didn't know I had. Took the topic to be the charts you posted to show Alta. isn't a Bible belt, which I looked at and had no problem with. :smile:
Oops, I had forgotten about that one. In fact, I met a lady just a few weeks ago who recently moved up here to the BC Interior. When I asked where she was from originally, she said, "The Bible Belt, near Chilliwack." And I have heard that strip of the Fraser Valley called that same name before, by people who live, or have lived there.
Jeez, we might have a few of these throughout the country, officially or otherwise.
We have discussed this before, JLM. User fee will discourage patients from getting preventive care, pre and post natal care, cancer testing etc. That will result in sicker children; resulting in high infant mortality (USA has one of the highest infant mortalities in the developed countries). It will also make it difficult to detect cancer in early stages. A patient gets much sicker in the later stages, it is expensive to treat and many times the prognosis for success is poor.
User fee will definitely lead to a sicker society, as is evident from USA; they have one of the highest infant mortality and one of the lowest life expectancy in the developed world.
Sure I am, I am responding to JLM's comment. You should ask this question to him first, then to me.
Nope, Social Credit went the way of the Dodo bird here in the early 90s followed by about 8 years of N.D.P. rule. Bill Vanderzahm put the kibosh on them. Social Credit was a "child" of William Aberhart in Alberta about 1935, and then here in 1952 with W.A.C. Bennett at the helm- it only has a shelf life of about 40 years both here and in Alberta. It was probably an off shoot of the Progressive Conservative Party with a little religion mixed in.
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We have discussed this before, JLM. User fee will discourage patients from getting preventive care, pre and post natal care, cancer testing etc. That will result in sicker children; resulting in high infant mortality (USA has one of the highest infant mortalities in the developed countries). It will also make it difficult to detect cancer in early stages. A patient gets much sicker in the later stages, it is expensive to treat and many times the prognosis for success is poor.
User fee will definitely lead to a sicker society, as is evident from USA; they have one of the highest infant mortality and one of the lowest life expectancy in the developed world.
Are you sure?
social credit died many years ago here in b.c., they
turned coat and became liberal, maybe there is reincarnation after all.
lol
Yep, a watered down version, I suppose. The church bullsh*t is no longer part of it(remember Calvary Temple and how you had to attend if you wanted any favours and lived around Kamloops), Not QUITE as corrupt now, of course I suppose about 90% of the corruption could be attributeed to one man and it wasn't the premier.
"Motor Mouths" will talk about anything just to hear the sound of their own voice........or in this case "Motorized keyboard";-) might be the proper term:lol:;-)