Canada has grown to a nation of more than 36 million, Statistics Canada announced today. The figure being used is 36,048,500, a number set on January 1, 2016. The population grew some 62,800 from October 1, 2015 because of the country’s busy storks — there were 95,300 births compared with 67,900 deaths, based on preliminary estimates. Net international migration was 35,400, up 600 from the same quarter in 2014.
