Canada is now China's 3rd largest export market, reports the China Daily:

Canada's exports to China nearly doubled to 8 billion Canadian dollars (US$8.8 billion) in 2006 from 4 billion Canadian dollars (US$4.4 billion) in 2002. In the first seven months of 2007, they soared 43 percent over the same period one year ago, the largest gain by any of the G-7 countries, the report said.

Although Canada still imports far more from China than it exports, 21.7 billion Canadian dollars (US$23.9 billion) as of July, 2007 compared to 5.5 billion Canadian dollars (US$6.1 billion), export growth has outpaced imports by a wide margin this year, said the report.

This is good news for our export portfolio. Sadly, according to 2006 figures from Industry Canada, 82% of our exports still go to the U.S. — a whopping $360 billion, versus East Asia's total $23b.

Another reason to avoid LA

Your plane might explode.

Officials said the WestJet Boeing 737, carrying 136 passengers, came within 15 metres of colliding with a 150-seat Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 that was taking off.
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The "runway incursion" was the eighth such incident at LAX this year, matching the total for all of 2006.

According to my calculations, the approximate chance you might almost die* from a plane collision in 2007 at LAX¹ is:

1 in 58,157

(or about 0.001719 percent)


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¹656,842 aircraft movements in 2006 at LAX (Source: Airports Council International) = approx. 465,263 aircraft movements by August 15, 2007, presuming no significant change in airport traffic between 2006 and 2007. Divided by eight incidences of near-death = 58,157.
*Presuming 100% death rate upon collision.