Census Shows Rapid Immigration Growth In Atlantic Canada
Record-breaking immigration is driven largely by one specific region of the world.
Record-breaking immigration is driven largely by one specific region of the world.
Canada is facing record retirements from an aging labour force amid high job vacancies and historically low unemployment.
David Campbell finds some encouraging news in data on women entrepreneurs in New Brunswick. But he is also concerned about some of the deeper trends.
David Campbell says there’s no point growing New Brunswick’s population to 1 million people unless alot of them can fill the hundreds of thousands of job vacancies the province can expect in the next 20 years.
Numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada show the city added 2,320 residents between 2016 and 2021. That pushed the city’s total population to 69,895 people, an increase of 3.4 percent over five years.
In the first tranche of 2016 census data released Wednesday, Cape Breton registered sixth on that list of ever−smaller urban centres.
The first round of census data shows population growth in each province except New Brunswick.