Yikes! Maybe I should move
If you want to outlive your fellow-Canadians, maybe you should pack for Prince Edward Island.
And, Alberta would be a place you'd want to avoid.
According to Statistics Canada figures for 2005, residents of the island province lived the longest in Canada -- to an average age of 75.6 years.
Alberta, meanwhile, has an average life expectancy of just 71.6 years, the lowest among provinces and third lowest when including the territories.
The Northwest Territories stood at 61.1 years and Nunavut had the lowest by an Arctic mile, at an average of 47.8 years.
47.8 years! If Nunavut were a country, we'd rank somewhere between Somalia and Nigeria, with very few countries, all but Afghanistan in sub-Saharan Africa, ranking below us.
That's almost unbelievably bad for a section of what is supposed to be a First-World country. It's unfortunate that I don't have to look too far to see the conditions that make it believable.
