● 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 immigrants coming to Canada”: 46
● Percentage of Canadians who say the country’s security is “under threat” because of refugees: 53
● Percentage increase in the number of hate crimes targeting Muslim Canadians since 2012: 253
● Rank of Thunder Bay as the city having the highest per capita number of hate crimes in the country: 1
● Rank of Toronto: 7
● Number of new condominium units that have been built in Toronto during the last four years: 100,000
● Number of people in Toronto currently on the waiting list for subsidized housing: 180,000
● Percentage increase in the number of people in the United States worth more than $30 million during the last decade: 30
● Percentage increase in the number of people in Canada worth more than $30 million during the same period: 50
● Percentage of Canadians who consider themselves “middle class”: 74
● Chance that a First Nations child on a reserve in Canada lives in poverty: 3 in 5
● Ratio by which First Nations youth suffer higher suicide rates than those of non-First Nations youth: 6 to 1
● Ratio by which Inuit youth suffer higher suicide rates than that of the national average: 11 to 1
● Since 1876, number of First Nations children who were placed in residential schools across Canada: 150,000
● Year in which the residential school system was abolished: 1996
● Percentage of residential school survivors who report they suffered physical abuse as students: 67
● Percentage of Canadians who have never read or heard about the history of the residential school system: 33
● Projected percentage increase in military spending by the federal Liberal government over the next ten years: 73
● Number of new fighter jets previously scheduled for purchase by the previous Conservative government: 65
● Number of new fighter jets scheduled for purchase by the current Liberal government: 88
● Celsius increase in average global temperatures since 1880: 1.3
● Additional Celsius increase in future global temperatures even if all of the Paris Climate Agreement goals are achieved: 0.7
● Since 1980, chance that an armed conflict is related to climate change or climate change-related natural disasters: 1 in 4
● Current total membership of the British Conservative Party: 149,800
● Number of people who joined the British Labour Party during the three day period after the June 8 general election: 150,000
● Chance that a farmer in Canada is over the age of 55: 1 in 2
● Chance that a homeless person in Australia is under the age of 25: 2 in 5
● Estimated number of Canadian youth under the age of 25 who experience homelessness each year: 35,000
● Chance that a homeless shelter user in Canada is over the age of 50: 1 in 4
● Percentage of Americans who believe border security with Mexico should be increased: 64
● Percentage of Canadians who believe border security with the United States should be increased: 71
● Rank of Canada in being among the first countries in the world to legalize same-sex marriage: 4
● Percentage of Canadians who say the country’s universal health care system is a “source of collective pride”: 94
● Percentage of Canadians who say the same about the British monarchy: 39
● Year in which slavery was abolished in Canada: 1834
● Out of 10 provinces and 3 territories, number whose names are First Nations in origin: 6
● Year that National Aboriginal Day was first celebrated in Canada: 1996
● Year in which the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy was formed: 1142
Our Times Tally is written by union communications and media consultant Sean Cain (www.labourmedia.org).
