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The Daily Version française

Thursday, October 7, 1999
For release at 8:30 a.m.


MAJOR RELEASES
  • Population estimates, July 1, 1999

    Canada's population has surpassed the 30.5-million mark despite the slowest growth rate in 30 years. As of July 1, 1999, the nation's population stood at 30,568,000, an increase of just under 0.9% from July 1 last year.

  • Homicide statistics, 1998

    The national homicide rate declined to its lowest point in 30 years in 1998 as 555 individuals were killed, 31 fewer than in 1997. Firearms were involved in just over one-quarter of these cases, the lowest proportion since data were first collected in 1961.


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