{"id":2533,"date":"2021-01-19T21:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2021-01-19T21:40:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:40:37","slug":"starrs-point-index-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/2021\/01\/19\/starrs-point-index-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Starr’s Point Index #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of countries reporting more cumulative cases of COVID-19 than Canada to Nov. 30, 2020: 28<\/p>\n

Number of Countries reporting more cases than Canada to Jan. 15, 2021: 21<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s increase in cumulative COVID-19 cases Nov. 30-Jan. 15: 85.3%<\/p>\n

Number of top 30 countries with faster rates of increase than Canada Nov. 20-Jan.15: 3<\/p>\n

Country with fastest rate: Turkey 272.6%[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Number of reported COVID-19 deaths in England as of Jan. 18, 2021: 78,636 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n

Number of reported COVID-19 deaths African continent to Jan. 14, 2021: 76,480[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Business insolvencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of insolvency filings by Canadian businesses second and third quarters (April 1 to September 30) 2020: 978<\/p>\n

Number of insolvency filings same period 2019: 1,229<\/p>\n

Rank of 2020 business insolvencies compared with second and third quarters since 2006: Lowest [4]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nova Scotia population<\/strong><\/p>\n

Percentage change in Halifax county population 2010-2020: 12.59%<\/p>\n

Percentage change for all other Nova Scotia counties combined 2010-2020: – 2.37%<\/p>\n

Percentage change in Halifax county population 2001-2010: 7.89%<\/p>\n

Percentage change for all other Nova Scotia counties combined 2001-2010: – 3.46% [5]<\/a><\/p>\n

Police and crime<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cybercrime rate\/100,000 population Canada 2019: 117.8<\/p>\n

Change from 2015: 111.9%<\/p>\n

Cybercrime rate\/100,000 Nova Scotia 2019: 292.3<\/p>\n

Change from 2015: 100.2%<\/p>\n

Nova Scotia cybercrime ranking among Canadian provinces 2015 and 2019: First[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto municipal police officers\/100,000 population 2019: 162.0<\/p>\n

Halifax municipal police\/100,000 2019: 208.8<\/p>\n

Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia municipal police\/100,000: 965.3 [7]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Doctors and nurses<\/strong><\/p>\n

Percentage increase in physicians\/100,000 Canada 2010-2019: 17.56%<\/p>\n

Percentage increase in physicians\/100,000 Nova Scotia 2010-2019: 18.58%<\/p>\n

Increases in nurses\/100,00 Canada 2010-2019: 3.92%<\/p>\n

Increase in nurses\/100,000 Nova Scotia 2010-2019: 4.58%<\/p>\n

Physicians\/100,000 population Canada 2019: 241<\/p>\n

Physicians\/100,000 population Nova Scotia 2019: 268<\/p>\n

Nurses\/100,000 population Canada 2019: 1,170<\/p>\n

Nurses\/100,000 population Nova Scotia 2019: 1,447 [8]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Senate cost<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total cost of Canadian Senate 2019-20: $114.0 million<\/p>\n

Increase from 2014-15: 33.48%<\/p>\n

Cost per senator 2019: $1.086 million[9]<\/a><\/p>\n

-30-<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Worldometer<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Statista<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Statistics Canada<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 17-10-0142-01<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 35-10-0002-01<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 35-10-0077-01<\/p>\n

[8]<\/a> Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and author\u2019s calculation<\/p>\n

[9]<\/a> CBC News, Nov. 15, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pandemic Number of countries reporting more cumulative cases of COVID-19 than Canada to Nov. 30, 2020: 28 Number of Countries reporting more cases than Canada to Jan. 15, 2021: 21 Canada\u2019s increase in cumulative COVID-19 cases Nov. 30-Jan. 15: 85.3% Number of top 30 countries with faster rates of increase than Canada Nov. 20-Jan.15: 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[169,40,42,187],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-index","tag-covid-19","tag-health-care","tag-ns-doctors","tag-policing","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}