Friday, June 16, 2023

Happy Bloomsday, and for Canada happy fortieth (million)

This year Bloomsday is also a special day in Canada.  Canada's population is estimated to be hitting forty million sometime today. Right now StatsCan has a neat little population clock, that needed a net increase of fewer than 500 people when I checked it before noon Eastern Time today. 

When I was a school child, every school child knew that Canada's population was twenty million. We've come a long way.  And last night, watching a big win for Canada's men's national soccer team and all its first-generation Canadian superstars, I couldn't help thinking we've got a lot of benefits out of those who have come here, currently at a pace of about a million a year.

 
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