Causes of Death, Canada (1992), by sex

July 28, 2002, I was made aware of a press release issued by Shelternet.

The press release stated:

Shelternet to be launched on August 13, 2002!

Among women aged 15-44 worldwide, gender based violence accounts for more death and ill health than cancer, traffic injuries and malaria combined.

-World Bank Report, UNIFEM Press Release 2000-

Thank you to the following supporters who are making the dream of Shelternet a reality:

The Canadian Business Magazine
The Canadian Women's Foundation
The Centre for Research on Violence
Against Women and Children, UWO
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Mary Kay Cosmetics
The Ministry of Citizenship
(The Volunteer @ction.online program)
The National Crime Prevention Centre
Pangaea NewMedia
The Rural Secretariat
TELUS
The Trillium Foundation

A few logos shown at the end of the release are not readily identifiable with any of the organizations contained in the preceding list.  They belong to the Governments of Canada, to Ontario (the Government of Ontario, I presume) and to the Women's Community House.  None of the organizations listed are known to be family-friendly.  Some of them, including the Government of Canada, are outright family-hostile.

One of the sponsors listed is TELUS, a Canadian (now largely foreign-owned) telecommunications company that, a little over ten years ago, came into existence through the privatization of Alberta Government Telephones.   TELUS eventually bought out Edmonton Telephones and BC Telephones.  During its new existence as a private corporate entity, TELUS performed so exceedingly poorly that it had to save itself from financial disaster once by laying off 6,000 of its employees (then about half of its work force).  TELUS is now in the process of doing that again.   It announced that it has to lay off 6,000 of its  employees (one quarter of its combined work force), apparently to make them pay for its poor management decisions that saw its bond ratings drop from AAA to BB, just one step away from junk-bond performance.

Why would TELUS, apparently slated to go under or at least to enter the Nirvana of corporate oblivion, feel that it needs to scrape together the funding required to support a hare-brained scheme by radical gender activists?  Citizens of Alberta and British Columbia, not radical feminists from Ontario, provide the lion's share of TELUS' operating revenues.

More about the context of the scheme is shown after the contact information from the press release:

If you would like to know more about Shelternet please call:

Jan Richardson Managing Director Shelternet:

(519) 438 6600
janrichardson@sympatico.ca

If you would like how to donate to Shelternet as an individual or company please call:

Kathryn Babcock, Director of Marketing

(416) 465-0442
babcock@look.ca

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Here now is the truth as to who are the victims:

Causes of Death — Canada, 1992
Cause of Death	Number of Deaths
	Men	Women
Circulatory system diseases	39,290	36,921
Cancer	30,481	25,167
Respiratory system diseases	9,411	7,252
Digestive system diseases	3,774	3,450
Suicide all causes	2,923	786
Motor vehicle collisions	2,376	1,061
Substance abuse	2,317	844
Suicide, non-firearm	1,932	727
Mental Disorders	1,559	2,034
HIV	1,288	70
Suicide by Firearms	991	59
Accidental falls	985	1,153
Accidental poisoning	528	198
Homicides all causes	487	245
Homicide, non-firearm	309	176
Homicide, by firearm	178	69
Homicide, by cutting/piercing instrument	142	68
Surgical/medical misadventure	74	80
Fatal gun accidents	61	2

Source: "Causes of Death 1992" (Minister of Industry, Science and Technology, Statistics Canada, Health Statistics Division, Sept. 1994); and, "Method of Committing Homicide Offences, Canadian the Provinces/Territories, 1992" (Minister of Industry, Science and Technology, Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 1992)

Additional statistics and comments of interest (in no particular order):

• The 1989 Montreal Massacre in the context of men’s sacrifices, 2008 12 07, by Professor Jeffrey Asher.

• http://fathersforlife.org/health/lifeexpw.htm
  Differences in the life expectancies of the sexes in various countries in the world

• http://fathersforlife.org/fv/chivalryends.htm
  A tool kit to destroy families

• http://fathersforlife.org/health/heartdths.htm
  Deaths from Heart- and Cardiovascular Diseases
  US Heart Disease Fatalities -- The Hype and the Truth

• http://fathersforlife.org/health/cancer.htm
  [US] Deaths from Cancer

• http://fathersforlife.org/health/population_control.htm
  World Population Control -- U.S. Strategy and UN Policy Program

• http://fathersforlife.org/uspop.htm
  USA Population Figures for the Years 1980 to 1996 (That page contains information about the leading causes of death for the sexes in the U.S.)

• http://fathersforlife.org/health/EDISDR_SFHR_2001_causes.htm
  Emergency Department Injury Surveillance Report
  South Fraser Health Region
  April 1, 2001 - June 30, 2001

• Is the world overpopulated?
  
  If all of the world's people were located in the Province of Alberta (just a touch smaller in area than the State of Texas) and each were to have an equal share of all of the land in Alberta, then each of the world's people would have 98.6m² of land to live on.
  
  Assuming that the average household consists of three people, a family of three would have enough space (3,184 ft²) for a moderately-sized house and a garden large enough to grow some of the food consumed by the family.

  • Alberta land area: 661,565 km², 255,541 miles²
  • World population: 6,706,993,152 (Source: CIA World Factbook, July 2008 est.)

  It is obvious that the world's population density will be the controlling factor.  Is that a problem?  Will people any time soon be standing on each other's shoulders? 
  
  How can the world be overpopulated if it is possible to fit the world population, fairly comfortably, into a province the size of Alberta or a state the size of Texas,  even if we divide the whole population into families of three and give each a bungalow and a good-sized garden to boot?
  
  The following table list a number of nations, ranked by their population densities. 

   

  Does anyone seeing those numbers still think that the world is overpopulated?

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