Canada’s population grew by more than half a million over the past year, the biggest increase in six decades.

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That’s the biggest gain since 1957. International migration recorded the biggest increase ever measured in Canada’s history and accounted for about 80 percent of population growth.  New immigrants totaled 303,257 over the past year.