US to ban Canadians from entering border friendship library
US to ban Canadians from entering border friendship library
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians
See this seems like a nationalist thing but it's also a systemic illiteracy thing
Making a wild guess here, Canada has higher literacy than USA. Checking my "wild guess":
UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2025 Canada 99% USA 86%
I'm also pretty danged sure we, US citizens, maybe not our government, need more friends.
Edit: And for a long time have needed better education. sigh.
Canada has the highest percentage of university educated people in the world.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree-attainment-by-country/
63% of Canadians have post secondary education. 54% of Americans can’t read at a grade 6 level.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
Time to remove that half of the building lying on the Canadian side.