{"id":3059,"date":"2009-09-10T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:05:10","slug":"is-canada-still-civilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"Is Canada Still Civilized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study by The Canadian Council on Learning, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/278962\">Literacy rate levels for adult Canadians<\/a> are at a national rate of 48 per cent. Montreal and Toronto have 50 per cent literacy levels and the best results come from the west in Victoria and Regina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure this report should be taken at face value, but maybe other reports giving Canada a higher literacy rate are weaker than this one.  I can&#8217;t tell at this distance.  But I have to ask the question in my headline.  How illiterate can a people be before they are considered uncivilized, or does literacy have much to do with being civilized?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study by The Canadian Council on Learning, &#8220;Literacy rate levels for adult Canadians are at a national rate of 48 per cent. Montreal and Toronto have 50 per cent literacy levels and the best results come from the west in Victoria and Regina.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure this report should be taken at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Canada Still Civilized?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}