Number in which U.S., British, or Canadian corporations own a controlling interest: 4
3/87Rank of the outdoors and trains among the unconventional places in which Canadians say they’ve had sex: 1,2
3/89Percentage of the U.S. hazardous waste shipped abroad that goes to Canada: 90
2/90Percentage of the value of all foreign-owned U.S. real estate that is owned by Japanese companies: 15
Percentage of the value of all foreign-owned U.S. real estate that is owned by Canadian companies: 26
4/90Number of months the 4 managers of the Moscow McDonald’s attended the Canadian Institute of Hamburgerology: 9
6/90Number of biodegradable golf tees ordered this year from Peat “T” of Edmonton, Canada: 300,000,000
9/90Price of Cybervac, a self-navigating robotic vacuum cleaner, from Cyberworks of Ontario, Canada: $10,500
10/91Percentage of Canadians who say they have “never thought about” having sex with a co-worker: 60
12/91Amount the city of Montreal will spend this year on a rest room for dogs in William Bowie Park: $34,000
10/92Breasts bared on a Canadian border bridge last July to celebrate New York State’s legalization of topless sunbathing: 40
7/92Percentage of Canadians who expect their country to become a part of the United States in the next 50 years: 37
7/93Ratio of liver transplants performed per capita in Canada last year to those performed in the U.S.: 1:1
9/93Number of TV stations that have refused to air a consumer group’s ad advocating a Canadian-style health-care system: 8
9/93Ratio of the number of Canadians who favor a U.S.-style health-care system to those who believe Elvis is alive: 1:2
7/94Factor by which the likelihood that a U.S. heart-attack victim will receive surgery exceeds that of a Canadian: 2
11/96Rank of “Denendeh” among the new names favored by residents of Canada’s proposed northern territory: 1
12/96Percentage change in the homicide rate in Canada since the 1976 abolition of the death penalty there: -27
12/97Portion of Canada’s 105 daily newspapers that are owned by Conrad Black: 1/2
4/97Estimated percentage change in the size of Canada’s Native-American population since 1500: +22
Estimated percentage change since then in the size of the Native-American population of the U.S.: -76
1/98Price a Nova Scotia artist charges for a silver necklace with a pendant cast from an antidepressant pill: $30
1/98Percentage of Canadian adults under the age of 25 who believe that Neil Armstrong was the first Canadian in space: 10
Percentage who believe that Allen Ginsberg was Canadian: 20
12/98Maximum amount that the Canadian government has agreed to spend on a soldier’s sex-change operation: $40,000
5/98Amount that a Disney licensing agreement has earned the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since 1995: $414,848
8/00Maximum suggested donation for a week’s course in civil disobedience at Canada’s clandestine Co-Motion Action Camp: $125
11/01Number of days a Quebec protester was jailed in April for allegedly catapulting three stuffed animals at police: 17
3/01Hours it took Canadian election workers last year to hand count 13 million ballots cast in their general election: 5
3/01Pounds of marijuana that a private company has been contracted to grow for Canada’s health ministry next year: 407
4/01Square miles of Quebec City to be enclosed with chain-link fencing during a free-trade meeting there this month: 2
6/01Percentage of the electrical supply of the U.S. and Canada, respectively, that is produced by dams: 10, 62
7/01Average monthly viewership of NakedNews.com, a Canadian website whose anchors strip while reading the news: 6,000,000
10/02Number of traffic tickets issued in July by British Columbia police officers posing as squeegee men: 90
2/02Percentage of oil imported by the U.S. last year that came from Persian Gulf countries: 23
4/02Price that a Canadian firm charges for a ten-inch cement “Garden Liberal” resembling Prime Minister Jean Chretien: $50
9/02Radius, in miles, around this year’s G8 summit in Canada within which unauthorized persons were not allowed: 2
Distance, in miles, from the summit to the area where demonstrations were allowed: 11
7/03Number of NATO countries besides the United States and Canada that use no form of proportional representation: 0
9/03Number of Canadian prison inmates who overdosed in March on fellow prisoners’ methadone-laced vomit: 2
Number of inmates charged with drug trafficking for providing the vomit: 3
7/04Percentage of his salary Minnesota senator Mark Dayton spends on bus trips for seniors buying drugs in Canada: 100
7/04Ratio of U.S. and Canadian spending on pharmaceuticals last year to the amount the rest of the world spent: 31:32
8/04Average number of inches by which Chicago sinks each year as the land it stands on adjusts from the last ice age: 0.04
1/05Number of states, provinces, or territories of the United States, Canada, and Mexico that lack a McDonald’s: 1
2/05Estimated percentage by which the number of automobiles made in Ontario last year exceeded the number made in Detroit: 4
4/05Number of Canadian work permits granted since 1998 to stem a labor shortage in “exotic dancing”: 2,000
Number under the U.S.‒Canada border: 1
4/06Percentage of Canadians who say that immigrants are a “good influence” on their nation: 77
Percentage of Americans and Germans, respectively, who say this: 49, 35
4/06Number of glasses of wine or sherry that seventeen homeless alcoholics were allowed daily, in a Canadian study: 15
Number of the participants who reduced their alcohol intake, quit the study, or died, respectively: 11, 3, 3
10/07Percentage change since 2004 in U.S. immigration to Canada: +46
Percentage change since then in total retail sales in Crawford, Texas: –27
11/07Feet on each side of the U.S.-Canadian border that by law are supposed to be kept clear of brush: 10
Percentage of the border that has not been maintained since 2000: 44
Percentage change from the United States and Canada, respectively: +16, +25
8/08Number of times per year that Canada’s defense ministry requires a think tank it funds to be mentioned in the press: 29
Number of op-ed pieces the think tank’s staff must publish, including letters: 15
9/08Percentage of Britons and Canadians, respectively, who say the United States is a “force for evil”: 35, 34