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Simeon Mitropolitski is a Canadian analyst, of Bulgarian origin, and a former syndicated columnist with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with hot political and economic topics, both national and international.
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals and students that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in this country in 1989, and in 1996-1997 participated in international observation teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
In 2002 Simeon and his family moved from Bulgaria to Canada where they live now in Montreal, province of Quebec. Simeon is a Master of Political Science from McGill University and a B.A. of Political Science and History.
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Canada: Where do people live healthier?14 largest Canadian cities have been compared to determine which one is the most committed to health, or, in other words, where people live healthier lives. All factors taken together show that Vancouver is considered to be on the top of the list and Montreal - on the bottom*. To say that Vancouver is the healthiest city in Canada doesn't mean that it scores highest on all the enumerated criteria. So before deciding where exactly to settle, it's good to look more closely at the particular topics that represent as a whole the notion of healthy life. If the number of suicides says something about the mental health of the society, then we should avoid going to Edmonton, Alberta, where the suicide rate is the highest in the country (15.5 per 100,000)**. Instead we should choose Mississauga, Ontario, with suicide rate of just 6.4 per 100,000 (12.9 in average in Canada). Another mental disorder that influences the health image is the stress in the daily life. Here Montreal scores on the top with 30.5% complaining about daily stress factors. On the other side of the list is St. John's with just 17.8% (the Canadian average is 26.1%). Some bad habits such as second hand smoking also move the cities up or down on the health scale. Here again Montreal together with Edmonton lead the race with 29.5% of the population complaining about being exposed to nicotine smoke. The best ratio in this respect is found in Vancouver and Toronto, where similar complains are shared by less than 20% (the Canada average is 27.6%). To live in an affordable house or pay an affordable rent is also part of the healthy life. In what the rents are concerned, the best situation is in Saint John where people pay just $402 for 1BR apartment***. The most expensive 1BR facilities in average are found in Toronto, $830 per month. When you buy the house, think twice before doing that in Vancouver where the average detached bungalow could reach $323,000. The luckiest in this respect are the people in St. John's where the same kind of house costs $98,000****. The property crimes are also included in the list of factors that influence the healthy life. In this regard it's wise to avoid the top city Vancouver, where in the last 3 years period (1999-2001) the criminal rates reached 10,000 per 100,000 people. At the same time in the quietest city Mississauga the crimes against the property index is 4 times lower. One of the most controversial factors included in the survey that influences the social health is the medium income, because it doesn't reflect the disparities between the cities in price terms. Nevertheless the wealthiest people among these 14 cities live in Ottawa ($26,200).
--- ** - These statistics are provided by Statistics Canada. *** - $1 US = $1.55 Canadian. **** - The statistics in this paragraph are provided by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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