Statistics Canada ("the agency") is a member of the Innovation, Science and Industry portfolio. Statistics Canada's role is to ensure that Canadians have access to a trusted source of statistics on ...

Canada is known for its ethnocultural and religious diversity, with every Canadian contributing to this rich landscape. Data on the origins and religions of the population have been collected by the ...

View articles exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to children and youth in this selection from our series StatCan COVID-19: Data to Insights for a Better Canada.

Weather-related catastrophic events once again plagued Canada in 2024. Let’s take a look at the price Canadians have paid and continue to pay for these weather-related catastrophes. A summer of ...

The Consumer Price Index increased 2.9% year over year in May, an uptick from 2.7% in April. Conversely, the overall inflation rate has been on a general downward trend since its peak in June 2022.

For many college and university students, school is officially out for summer! High school students have just a little more to go before their school year wraps up and summer vacation begins. As the ...

Statistically speaking, the fiscal year 2022/2023 was not “a vintage year” in terms of the volume of wine sold nor its share of the alcoholic beverage market. However, sparkling wine was the toast of ...

We’ve all seen prices in grocery stores lately. Wherever you live in Canada, there is no question that grocery bills are getting more expensive. From 2021 to 2022, prices for food purchased from ...

It’s spring, which means vacation planning for many Canadians is in full swing! Some of those plans might mean a road trip, covering a chunk of the approximately one million kilometres of public roads ...

Vaisakhi, the holiest day of the year in the Sikh faith is fast approaching. To mark this day, let’s take a statistical snapshot of Sikhs in Canada. During the 2021 Census of Population, 771,790 ...

Businesses are always looking for a competitive edge and generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded as a transformative labour- and money-saving technology. In the first quarter of 2024 ...

Canada is blessed with water. We have the longest coastline in the world and the third highest volume of renewable fresh water. To celebrate World Water Day, let’s dive into some water-related data.