The Canadian Taxpayer Can Easily Save Themselves Billions of Dollars a Year, Here's How.

VANCOUVER – After several weeks of tumbling gas prices, the price, at the pump has shot upward.

Duha, Who, Where, How, What happened?

Nothing for the Canadian consumer to be worrying themselves about; just, yet another, Canadian Government/Provincial Government???United States of the Americas lead-consumer rip off.

Springs coming, “The traders” on the world markets, in New York and other places, decided that prices of gasoline were simply too low to be true, and as a result, added on about, looks like about 7 or 8 cents a litre at the wholesale level, Greed-Money Honey-just so long as it’s not Canadian.

According to some sources, there is a belief out that there is not enough gas to go around. Plenty of oil, but not enough gasoline; and as a result, that combined with the worthless Canadian dollar, added to a pretty significant punch for motorists and all taxpaying Canadians(increase in gas prices gives an excuse to claim higher transportation/shipping costs and a reason???well at least an excuse, which is all that the governments are looking for/need-to increase food prices and of course-taxes.

Prices at the pump of late have fluctuated from 99 cents a litre or lower, to $1.08 or $1.10 in a matter of days.

The bad news does not end there; prices dlouc WILL increase as much as two or three cents a litre, by Thursday and are already scheduled to go much, much higher making up for lost revenues.

What we’re seeing here in Vancouver is a little different from the general scene. Here while like in the rest of Canada, major retailers owned by the big United States of the Americas based and owned companies that supply into the market, have increased their margin from eight cents a litre, to nine cents a litre. So when you add that, you add the taxes, you add the increase prices, concerns about the Shell plant in Anacortes and Puget Sound shutting down at the end of this month for a longer period of time, 15,000 barrels of gasoline being produced there, it does create a sort of potential for tightness or at least an excuse for another scam.

Then there is the Government???contention that a low Canadian dollar is  good for Canada’s High Tech Industries because they charge for their services in United States of the Americas dollars- which means they be redeemed for a greater number of worthless Canadian dollars- a billion times a minus amount just means you have a greater deficit-in the real world.

Food prices have risen by 45 percent since end-2006, mirroring earlier price run-ups in other commodities (Source: IMF Commodity Price Index). Canadians face sharply higher prices for food – especially fruits and vegetables – after the dollar’s plunge, a new report says. The price of vegetables will rise by as much as 7.5 per cent this year, while fruit will cost up to 5 per cent more, said a report from Ontario’s University of Guelph. That pegs the overall rate of food inflation for 2015 at 0.7 per cent to 3 per cent.

Canadians spend about a quarter of their grocery budgets on fruits, vegetables and nuts. Much of this food comes from drought-stricken California and has already seen significant inflation. Because they are edible imported products, and there is a lack of substitutes, they are especially vulnerable to currency fluctuations.

Canada now imports more than $40-billion worth of food in a year, a figure that has increased as several Ontario food-processing plants have closed.

This all means Canadians are paying higher prices for food such as cereal and meat products, which used to be made, or produced, here; but, are now, mainly, imported.

Healthy Diet Linked to Lower Risk of Chronic Lung Disease.

Eating a diet rich in whole grains, polyunsaturated fats and nuts—and low in red and processed meat, refined grains and sugary drinks—is associated with a lower risk of chronic lung disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD), finds a study published in The BMJ this week.

The finding supports the importance of a healthy diet to promote lung health.

COPD is an umbrella term for chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema and bronchitis, which block the airways and restrict oxygen flow around the body. It is currently ranked the third leading cause of death worldwide.

The predominant risk factor for COPD in the developed world is cigarette smoking, but up to one third of COPD patients have never smoked, suggesting that other factors are involved.

A healthy diet has been consistently linked with reduced risk of heart disease and cancer, but the role of diet in risk of COPD is unknown.

A team of researchers based in France with some research being also done in the United States if the Americas, set out to investigate the association between the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010) - a measure of diet quality based on current scientific knowledge - and the risk of COPD.

They analysed data for more than 120,000 men and women taking part in the Nurses' Health Study from 1984 to 2000 and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986 to 1998.

Participants completed regular questionnaires on dietary intake, and those who reported a diagnosis of emphysema or chronic bronchitis between 1984 and 2000 were also assessed for COPD.

The AHEI-2010 diet score is based on 11 components, with a higher score reflecting high intakes of vegetables, whole grains, polyunsaturated fats, nuts, and long chain omega-3 fats - moderate intake of alcohol - and low intakes of red and processed meats, refined grains, and sugar sweetened drinks.

Over the study period, 723 cases of newly diagnosed COPD occurred in women and 167 in men.

After adjusting for 12 factors such as age, physical activity, body mass index, smoking and ethnicity, the risk of newly diagnosed COPD was one third lower in participants who ate the healthiest AHEI-2010 diet compared with those who ate the least healthy diet. The findings were similar in ex-smokers and current smokers - and in both women and men.

By contrast, the AHEI-2010 diet score was completely unrelated to incident asthma.

"This is a novel finding that supports the importance of diet in the pathogenesis of COPD," say the authors. "Although efforts to prevent COPD should continue to focus on smoking cessation, these prospective findings support the importance of a healthy diet in multi-interventional programs to prevent COPD."

"Our results encourage clinicians to consider the potential role of the combined effect of foods in a healthy diet in promoting lung health," they conclude.

Through legislated poverty, our Governments??? already force Families-People- most Pensioners to exist rather than live-unless they opt for suicide. These PEOPLE cannot afford a healthy diet, and so constitute a huge drain of medical resources, and taxpayer contributed, medical funding.

Taxpayers can save themselves billions, by simply forcing Governments to do away with their caste/class system. We SHOULD NOT have any “VIPs” in Canada. It is much too expensive. ©Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan. All rights reserved.