Ontario: Populations

Canada Dept: The first barrage of data from the 2011 census, released Wednesday, showed that there were 33.5 million people living in Canada in May of last year and that for the first time ever, more of them are living west of Ontario than in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, according to The Chronicle Herald. While other countries are struggling to maintain their populations, Canada s is actually picking up speed and oTTAWA The population in Western Canada has finally surpassed that on the other side of Ontario a trend that has been decades in the making, but was compounded by the recent recession. At the national level, there was a healthy 5.9 per cent surge in population from the previous census in 2006, giving Canada the fastest growth pace of all the countries in the G8. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.