Canadian Ratio Doctors to patients

Yesterdays Winnipeg Free Press had an article on the election of the president of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Brian Day. What caught my attention was not the headlines that he is a Private-care doctor but rather the fact that there are 62,000 doctors in Canada belonging to the CMA.
The latest vital stratistics in Canada places the population at just over 33,000,000. Even if we accept that only 60,000 are actively practicing some medicine that gives a ratio of approximaely 1 to 600 patients. In some countries the ratio is much lower 1 into 1000 or even 1 t0 2000 people. If these data are accurate then pray tell me why are the faculties of medicine in Canadian medical schools increasing the student enrolment in Medicine ( U of Manitoba has increased the enrolment to over 100 students ) ?

Toronto AIDS Conference- ? 50M

This week over 25,000 scientists, politicians, journalists and whoever are currently attending a "War on Aids " meeting in Toronto. Even if the average cost for each delagate to attend this conference is only $2000.00 the total cost is a staggering 50 M- yes 50 million dollars !
Individuals, governments and charitable bodies including philanthropists like Bill Gates and others who contribute large funds for AIDS research might wish to assess whether they are getting their money's worth for their buck.

Gas prices in Canada and USA

Because we use the metric system in Canada , many Canadians are unaware of the high prices we pay for fuel when compared to our southern neighbours. Here are some quick calculations.
Currently in Winnipeg regular gas sells at 117.9 cents/litre. For this calculation lets round it off to 118 .
1 gallon of Canadian gas contains 4.55 litres
Therefore the cost of 1 gallon of gas in Canada is 4.55 X 118 = 5.3690 or $5.36
The cost of gas in the USA is around $3.00/gallon.
Even if we make corrections for the difference in the size of the American gallon and that the Canadian dollar is currently valued at 89 cents US there is still more than a dollar difference in the cost of fuel between our 2 countries.
This would not be so painful to accept if the Americans paid the same prices that we do for for the gas that they import from us.
We should not be surprised that the number of American visitors to Canada is on the decline.