Canada's population is aging. Demographic findings released by Statistics Canada project the 65 years and older population to rise from 3.92 million in 2001 to roughly 9.2 million people by 2041, or approximately one in four Canadians. This shift in the demographic profile has serious policy implications for Canada. Canadian policymakers will have to deal with both a shrinking labor force and an increased burden on social services. Lower old-age mortality and higher life expectancy pose serious challenges to Canada's social security system and public finances. The Canadian Pension Plan (CPP), Canada's pension system, will now require reform in order to remain solvent in the future. Ultimately, in order to sustain its population growth, Canada should consider encouraging pro-natalist pol...
Alcohol sales data provide a more accurate indication of alcohol consumption than alternative methods such as population surveys. This information can be used to better understand epidemiological issues related to alcohol consumption, policy development and evaluation. Official sales records were collected for the 28 regional districts of British Columbia (BC) for 2002-2005, while homemade alcohol was estimated from survey data. Alcohol consumption rates were found to vary across geographic regions, by season, and with population level demographics. Government stores were the largest source of alcohol consumption in BC, accounting for 45.1% of total alcohol consumption in 2004. U-Brews/U-Vins accounted for 4.0%, private liquor stores accounted for 27.5% of the total, and homemade alcoho...
...Statistics Canada does compile yearly per adult sales of alco...
Yo I'm livin' in this time behind enemy Unes, so I got mine, I hope you ("got yourself a gun"). You from the hood, I hope you ("got yourself a gun" ...you want beef I hope ya ("got yourself a gun")..." - Nas, lyrics from "Got Yourself a Gun Writing for the majority, [Antonin Scalia], who has a talent for finding support for conservative political causes in the text of the Constitution, whether it's broad rights for corporations or the "right" of George W. Bush to become president, said the ban made it too hard for law-abiding citizens to protect their homes by blowing away the bad guys. Scalia wrote that the handgun is special because "it can be pointed at a burglar with one hand while the other hand dials the police." Nice touch. Gun advocates argue that "guns don't kill people, peop...
... only four in 10 ever recovered; and statistics show that eight out of 10 stolen guns are taken fr...'t kill people, people do." They point to Canada, which they say has plenty of guns, but comparativ...Canada has roughly one-tenth the U.S. population, with huge swaths of rural areas (analogous to Ver...
... progression of cancer in the Canadian population. Every jurisdiction in Canada has a public cancer ..., with its power over census and statistics, (8) the federal government maintains a national s...
...Rapid population increases on reserves with limited housing capacit..., for non-aboriginal Canadian homes (Statistics Canada, 2008). Demographically, overcrowding is ex...
... successful policy shifts in both Canada and the United States, there has emerged a conserv... use from 7 to 2 per cent of the population was not the result of pushing people out but of ma... of Alberta's population fell below Statistics Canada's Low Income Cut-Offs (LICO), measured afte...
...The Muslim population in North America has been steadily increasing in r... 2001, the population of Muslim people in Canada was approximately 2 percent of the entire populatiion (Statistics Canada, 2001). Although the exact number of Muslim...
...However, for other members of the population including, for example, non-citizen or not-yet-cit..., in Canada there are no official statistics on the population with uncertain status, and avail...
.... Canada as a whole was certainly not untouched by the glob..., Industry Canada's Key Small Business Statistics noted that Saskatchewan is second only to Alberta ... with 91.8 business locations per 1,000 population (Alberta has 91.9 - see table > page 35). Many of ...
... 9 and 15 per cent: a very small population. (18) . The most thorough example of research on t... could not provide us with their statistics, nor with information on how many refugees use the...
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