Long-Form Census: Census and Release Marks

long-form census: The release marks just the latest and second-to-last in a year-long series of statistical snapshots of the Canadian condition, one that also heralded the return of data from the much-maligned long-form census for the first time in a decade, according to The Chronicle Herald. The census portrait began with a population boom out West and a commensurate spike in the number of households. There was plenty of diversity on display in Wednesday's deposit of Statistics Canada census data, including 250 different ethnic origins across the country, and hints of more to come visible minorities could comprise fully one-third of Canadians by 2036 as immigration drives population growth not just in the cities, but across the country. Wednesday's release showed a similar trend for two groups the largest overall increase in the Indigenous population was in western Canada over the last decade, while the share of recent immigrants to the Prairies more than doubled over the last 15 years. What it's forcing us to do, collectively, is think about our entire nation as being composed of immigrants, rather than just major cities. Immigrants are diffusing across the country, said Michael Haan, a sociology professor at Western University in London, Ont. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.