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Originally Posted by Half-Axed
Note that discrepancies may be observed when running more than one instance of the tool. The location in which events are occurring may differ due to the randomization of the modelled data.
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I don't think they compute these populations on a centralized server. Instead, when you load the page your browser probably loads some initial conditions and runs a model that adds and subtracts population randomly according to a distribution that is meant to match the rates happening in the real world. Over time they may tweak the parameters of the model, so a newly-loaded page may diverge from some loaded a long time ago.
When Statistics Canada announced 1,000,000 they probably already knew what the latest modeling would look like or may have gotten ahead of the public population clock a bit, rather than being wrong.