Canada Is Primed to Burn. Why Aren’t We Ready? - The Walrus

Open this photo in gallery:People walk past a Canadian Flag on Wellington Street in Ottawa, in June. Canada's population increased by 0.5 per cent over the past year as of July. Keito Newman/The Globe and MailAtakan Bakiskan is a doctoral student in economics at the University of Toronto. Just when we thought Canada’s population was falling by 0.5 per cent over the past year as of July – it turned out to be the other way around: it grew by that amount, as the improved counting of non-permanent residents revealed. The latest upward revisions to population estimates by Statistics Canada are substantial enough to change the picture of our economy: The tiny bit of positivity we have had recently in our numbers may prove greatly exaggerated. The revisions revealed that it was not productivity growth that was doing all the heavy lifting in economic growth lately. It was also population growth – more people were coming into the country and so aggregate incomes were rising as a result. In fact, with the recent adjustment to population estimates, year-over-year growth in GDP per capita in the second quarter looks to be less than 1 per cent, – just half of the 2 per cent we initially thought

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The 20th annual Cape to Cabot road race is taking place tomorrow. The grueling 20 km trek sees participants running from one historic landmark to another: From Cape Spear to Cabot Tower on top of Signal Hill. The race starts at 8 a.m., and because of that there are a few related road closures in St. John’s. Between 7:45 and 11a.m. there will be numerous road closures along the route. A full list can be found online at VOCM dot com. Expect traffic impacts from 7:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. on routes including Blackhead Road, Southside Road, Water Street, Harbour Drive, Duckworth Street, Temperance Street and Signal Hill Road.