Our Times Tally, Volume 38 – July 2017
● Percentage of Canadians who believe they are “as nice as the world thinks we are”: 66 ● Percentage who believe they are “even nicer”: 12 ● Percentage of Canadians who say “there are too many [...]
● Percentage of Canadians who believe they are “as nice as the world thinks we are”: 66 ● Percentage who believe they are “even nicer”: 12 ● Percentage of Canadians who say “there are too many [...]
● Number of people who attended Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration on January 20: 160,000 ● Number of people who attended the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. a day later: 470,000 ● [...]
● Number of times the U.S. Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote during the last 25 years: 1 ● Percentage of eligible voters in the United States who voted for Donald Trump: [...]
● Number of years Canada Post has been profitable since 1994: 20 ● Number of years Apple Inc. has been profitable since 1994: 19 ● Amount that the Conference Board of Canada predicted Canada Post [...]
● Estimated number of homeless people in Vancouver: 1,847 ● Number of housing units in Vancouver that sit empty: 10,800 ● Percentage of workers in Ontario who were making the minimum wage in [...]
● At the current rate of progress, estimated year in which the worldwide gender workplace and income gap will end: 2133 ● Rank of Iceland in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index: 1 [...]
● Number of additional Canadians who voted in the 2015 federal election compared to the 2011 federal election: 2,838,773 ● Number of major newspapers throughout Canada that officially endorsed [...]
● Average number of working hours per week in Greece: 41.9 ● Average number of working hours per week in Germany: 35.3 ● Rank of Greece in having the highest number of working hours per week in [...]
● Percentage of current university undergraduate students in Canada who are women: 55 ● Percentage of full-time, full-year, median male income in Canada that women earn, for those aged 25 to 34: [...]
● Estimated number of housing units currently being constructed in Toronto: 100,000 ● Of these, number that are publicly funded, social housing units for low income residents: 1,641 ● Number of [...]