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The Fraser Institute on Health Care: Around the World in 180 Days

Andrew Boozary | Posted 05.24.2013 | Canada
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Andrew Boozary

Presented with the opportunity to pick from any of the health systems the world has to offer, who in the right mind would choose Canada's single-payer model after reading their post? Turns out a country did have the opportunity the choose. That country was Taiwan.

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CP | Mike Corder And Toby Sterling, The Associated Press | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada
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AMSTERDAM - King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century Tuesday as his mother Beatrix abdicated to end a 33-year ...

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Why Drink Beer, When You Have Jenever in Amsterdam?

Rebecca Ananda | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada Travel
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Rebecca Ananda

The Dutch have a secret, and that secret's name is jenever. A precursor to modern gin, it has been drunk as "medicine" in the Netherlands since the Middle Ages. And what better way to pay homage to this historic liquor than to celebrate it with a festival, in a deconsecrated church, on a Saturday afternoon in Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam: Land of a Thousand Bicycles

Kathy Buckworth | Posted 08.09.2012 | Canada Travel
Read More: The Dutch, Amsterdam, Euro Trip, Bicycles, Bikes, Marijuana, Netherlands, Pot, Europe, Amsterdam Travel, Euro, Weed, Canada Travel News
Kathy Buckworth

Amsterdam is a city of almost 800,000 inhabitants, and 600,000 bicycles. They're everywhere. But as a North American traveling to Amsterdam, I was simultaneously impressed by their pedal power while surprised to discover that not one single cyclist owned an essential piece of biking equipment from our part of the world: the bike helmet.

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