Amalgamation

[jeffster]

For one thing, the census doesn't not count temporary residents, be it students or cottage dwellers or seasonal workers.

Doesn’t not count?

Right....that was a double negative, making it appear that the census DOES count. Whoops. Keeping it there as you already quoted it. I meant to say "census doesn't count temporary residents...."

That’s pretty funny. So, do you happen to know, did Waterloo just slap stickers over the MTO sign, or put up its own, or what?

Waterloo had altered a bunch of numbers when they were doing their city signs. I do believe cities can do population estimates on their own signs whenever they want, and in Waterloo's case, though, they altered the MTO sign, which isn't allowed. This is why all the major signs going into Cambridge/Kitchener have the 2016 Census population, and it was in 2017 (last time they were updated) that the MTO corrected Waterloo's sign on that provincial land.

To be clear, I have no issue cities updating their sign (on city property) before a census count. But I do think they should try to make it accurate. Kitchener, for example, had updated its sign around the cities to 237,000 in 2015, while Census had it at 234,000 in 2016, a 1.3% difference. Waterloo updated its sign to 130,000 in 2014, while the 2016 Census had 105,000, a 24% difference.

This just got me thinking though, I had mentioned the missing sign as you go into Kitchener from Waterloo. It also made me think how there is no sign, and never had been a sign, as you go into Cambridge from Highway 8 bypass. That sign technically would have to be at or just before the 401.