Category Archives: Canada
Census 2016: Fertility rate pushes Nunavut to top spot in population growth rate
OTTAWA - Quick: which region of Canada came out on top as the country’s fastest growing province or territory in the 2016 census? Step right up, Nunavut: the remote northern territory boasted a ...
Feb 08, 2017
Baby bust: Fertility rate of 1.6 continues to put onus on immigration: StatCan
TORONTO - After Debbie Clarke’s first child had reached the “terrible twos,” she and her husband decided their family of three was big enough - adding a sibling would be just too muc...
Feb 08, 2017
In Canada, dream of home ownership not so much far-flung as just far away
TORONTO - Julien Simon and his wife were living happily in their condo in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby when life intervened last year in the form of a baby on the way. The couple - he’s an In...
Feb 08, 2017
More people calling Prairies home, despite lower oil prices, economic downturn
REGINA - At the peak of the last oil boom, there were so many people living in the southeastern Saskatchewan city of Estevan that there was nowhere to stay. “We had people sleeping in trailers -...
Feb 08, 2017

Cape Breton among Atlantic areas hoping to stanch the human exodus
HALIFAX - George MacDonald has seen it play out generation after generation, the timeworn ritual of watching friends and family pick up stakes and head west. The councillor for Glace Bay, a hardscrabb...
Feb 08, 2017
Census 2016: Ontario growth still slowing, but experts see a change in fortunes
TORONTO - After he graduated in 2011, mechanical engineer David Momoh did what countless others in Ontario had done before him: he looked west, to the land of oil and opportunity. Then boom turned to ...
Feb 08, 2017
Highlights from the initial release of data from the 2016 census, out Wednesday
OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s first release of data - focused on population and dwellings - from the 2016 census: - The census counted 35,151,728 people on May 10, 2016, an increase of 1....
Feb 08, 2017

Census 2016: Canada's big cities home to big share of 35 million Canadians
OTTAWA - Colin Basran is having growing pains. In some ways a victim of his own success, the mayor of Kelowna has been struggling in recent years to rein in his city as it slowly spreads across the B....
Feb 08, 2017
Wreckers demolish Newfoundland home where five-year-old girl was found dead
CARBONEAR, N.L. - The house where a five-year-old Newfoundland girl was found after allegedly being killed by her father has been torn down. About a dozen people gathered Wednesday morning as wrecking...
Feb 08, 2017
Woman travels to Jordan to meet Syrian family she and company sponsored
HALIFAX - Tired of waiting for the arrival of a privately-sponsored Syrian family, a Halifax woman decided to travel to Jordan to meet them herself. Stephanie Gillis says it’s been more than a y...
Feb 08, 2017