Whoa man. Elections and Politics seem to build up this anger within me. Sad day. This is what I have been doing in the last 20 minutes: (2005 estimate of population)
- Population of Alberta: 3,223,400 Seats in Alberta: 28 Seat to Population Ratio: 1: 115 121
- Population of British Columbia: 4,168,123 Seats in British Columbia: 36 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 115 781
- Population of Manitoba: 1,165,944 Seats in Manitoba: 14 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 83 282
- Population of Ontario: 12,449,502 Seats in Ontario: 106 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 119 707
- Population of New Brunswick: 757,100 Seats in New Brunswick: 10 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 75 710
- Population of Newfoundland (2001): 533,800 Seats in Newfoundland: 7 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 76257
- Population of PEI: 137,900 Seats in PEI: 4 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 34 475
- Population of Quebec: 7,568,640 Seats in Quebec: 75 Seat to Population Ratio: 1 : 100915
- Population of Saskatchewan: 978,934 Seats in Saskatchewan: 14 Seat to Population ratio: 1 : 69 934
(States in Legislature that each gets 1 seat no matter what)
- Population of Nunavut: 29,300 Seats in Nunavit: 1 Seat to population ratio: 1 : 29,300
- Population of Northwest Territories:42,944 Seats in NWT: 1 Seat to Population ratio: 1 : 42,944
- Population of Yukon Territories:31,227 Seats in Yukon: 1 Seat to Population ratio: 1 : 31,227
Populations from "http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada"
Well. O dear. One can see with this that there is a large discrepency in the seat to population ratio across Canada. Now wouldn't it be nice if it were relatively equal? Anyways. WOot for conservatives :P
Okay, enough of Politics, even though this is what the majority of my day has been filled with the election because of me voting for the first time and heckling others to vote :P
Here's an exciting picture, I drew it at sunday school when it was terribly, terribly uninteresting (as only one child was there and she didn't really want to be there) But guess who is who and it will be exciting!
Last night I went to this "Branch" thing at St. James with Ian. It is kind of like a "College and Careers" event, but it's more of a 'let's sing, listen to a talk and discuss it while eating food'. But the young lady who did the talk spoke about Church Community and how it is important to be 'fed' on many different levels - like the 'foyer' being the sunday church where it's a celebration for God (where one is a guest), then the 'living room' where you get to know people more (where one is a friend) and then the 'kitchen' where you really get fed and really get to know people (where one is family). (of course, I did not say it nearly as eloquently or neatly as she did :P) But it made me wonder about things in my "church community" (or sometimes seemingly lack-there-of), but I think that I must think and ponder them more before my thoughts are written down or spoken aloud. Anyways, it was really cool and people were quite nice, thus it was exciting.
Well it is quite late and I have a lab tomorrow morning at 8 (gah! only 10 hours away - death!) So sleep is excellent.
1 Comments:
Glad that you had fun last night Bean :-) IT's good to have things to think about...for me, it's why I could be so gullible and think that tickets for an olympic hockey game would be 40 Euros (!)...that's laughable really. *oh dear*. Hope you survive your lab and I hope we survive our election choices ;-p Take care!
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