Day: 1 July 2023
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Hello everyone, and happy Canada Day.
With the spring 2021 census, we learned Canada was home to 36,991,981 people, 1.8 million (5.2 percent) more in just five years. Close to 27.3 million, nearly three in four, lived in one of Canada’s 41 urban centres.
The 41 urban centres, all have a population of 100,000 or more people, and accounted for most of Canada’s population growth from 2016 to 2021.
This list ranks the cities with populations of 1 million or more people.
- Toronto » 2.8 million people
- Montréal » 1.8M
- Calgary » 1.3 million
- Edmonton » 1 million
- Ottawa »1 million
Source » Statistics Canada
Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or nonstate actors.
- 🇳🇴 Norway » Global Freedom Score 100
- 🇫🇮 Finland » 100
- 🇸🇪 Sweden » 100
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand » 99
- 🇨🇦 Canada » 98
- 🇩🇰 Denmark » 97
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands » 97
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay » 97
- 🇮🇪 Ireland » 97
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg » 97
The Earth’s 10 largest countries (as calculated by total area) »
- Russia » 17,098,246 km² (6,601,670 sq mi)
- Canada » 9,984,670 km² (3,855,100 sq mi)
- China » 9,596,961 km² (3,705,407 sq mi)
- United States » 9,525,067 km² (3,677,649 sq mi)
- Brazil » 8,515,767 km² (3,287,956 sq mi)
- Australia » 7,692,024 km² (2,969,907 sq mi)
- India » 3,287,263 km² (1,269,219 sq mi)
- Argentina » 2,780,400 km² (1,073,500 sq mi)
- Kazakhstan » 2,724,900 km² (1,052,100 sq mi)
- Algeria » 2,381,741 km² (919,595)
Source » Wikipedia
July 1 is our national holiday!
On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act (today known as the Constitution Act, 1867) creates Canada.
Canada Day is a day to reflect on what it means to be Canadian, to share what makes us proud and to celebrate in our own way.