Canada’s Huge Population Revisions Reveal A Much Worse Economy
Just like that, Canada's shrinking population went the way of its technical recession—revised away. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows that the country's population grew in Q3 2026.
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Just like that, Canada's shrinking population went the way of its technical recession—revised away.
Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows that the country's population grew in Q3 2026.
More importantly, the data includes the upward revisions we've been discussing for months.
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Just like that, Canada's shrinking population went the way of its technical recession—revised away. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows that the country's population grew in Q3 2026. More importantly, the data includes the upward revisions we've been discussing for months.
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- It turns out that the much-discussed population contraction plaguing the country didn't exist.
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