Females face a 35 per cent probability of getting cancer and a 22 per cent chance of dying. Lung cancer is the top fatal cancer for both men and women, Statistics Canada says. St. John's, Nfld., has the dubious distinction of being the wettest city in the country. It suffers through rain and snow 217 days per year, compared with just 109 in Regina. Even rainy Vancouver has only 164 wet days, not many more than Ottawa, which averages 159.
Youth crime is a declining problem.
In 1998, there were 2.5 million offences, down from 2.8 million in 1994. The number of violent crimes dropped to 295,000 from 303,000 in the same period. If you want to watch the sun set on 1999, head to Falealupo, Samoa. During this century, Canada's population has swelled from 7.2 million to 30 million, but millions of people just passed through on their way to another country. Between 1911 and 1921, 1.4 million immigrants came to Canada, but one million people left.