Recent releases from The Daily

March 10, 2025
Study: Unfair treatment, racism and discrimination in community sports in Canada, 2025
In 2023, 6% of individuals in the wider sports community reported having experienced unfair treatment, racism or discrimination in community sports during the previous five years.

March 7, 2025
Labour Force Survey, 2025
Employment was virtually unchanged in February (+1,100; +0.0%) and the employment rate held steady at 61.1%. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.6%.

March 7, 2025
Control and sale of alcoholic beverages and cannabis, 2025
Federal and provincial government earnings from the control and sale of alcohol and recreational cannabis in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, rose 1.1% from a year earlier to $15.7 billion. Sales of beer, wine, and spirits fell compared with a year earlier, while sales of ciders, coolers, and cannabis increased.

March 6, 2025
Canadian international merchandise trade, 2025
In January, in the context of tariff threats on Canadian goods, Canada's merchandise exports increased 5.5% while imports were up 2.3%. Canada's merchandise trade surplus with the world widened from a revised $1.7 billion in December to $4.0 billion in January. This was the largest surplus since May 2022.

March 6, 2025
Perspectives on country attribution in Canadian international merchandise trade statistics, 2025
In Canadian international merchandise trade statistics, import and export data are available by partner country to provide insight into the countries with which Canada trades. Today, the introduction of two new data tables offers more direct insight into country attributions in these trade statistics.

March 5, 2025
Key findings from the Health of Canadians report, 2024, 2025
Today, Statistics Canada released Health of Canadians, 2024. This report offers a comprehensive overview of the state of population health in Canada using the latest data to highlight trends of key health indicators across several sociodemographic characteristics.

March 4, 2025
Annual retail trade, 2025
Retail spending grew across most sectors in 2023, with online shopping continuing its upward trend.

February 28, 2025
Gross domestic product, income and expenditure, 2025
Real gross domestic product increased 0.6% in the fourth quarter, after rising 0.5% in the third quarter. Growth in the fourth quarter was driven by higher household final consumption expenditures and increased exports and business investment. Drawdowns of business inventories and higher imports moderated the overall growth.

February 28, 2025
Gross domestic product by industry, 2025
Real gross domestic product rose 0.2% in December with increases coming from both services-producing and goods-producing industries.

February 28, 2025
Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, 2025
Cost- and labour-related challenges remain the top obstacles anticipated by businesses in the first quarter of 2025, though the proportion of businesses expecting cost- and labour-related obstacles has continued to ease.