StatsCAN Plus

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

Canada is truly a quilt of many people with very diverse ethnocultural backgrounds. In fact, Canadians reported over 450 different ethnic or cultural origins during the 2021 Census of Population. Let’s take a look at some of the larger and smaller ethnic or cultural groups from around the world found here in Canada, which make us the multicultural mosaic that we are today.

The long-awaited day has finally arrived. High school’s out for summer—and for some, forever! Some teens will be making their first foray into the job market in the coming days. Let’s take a look at how the labour landscape for Canadian youth aged 15 to 19 is shaping up heading into the summer of 2024.

Social media has found a way to make itself comfortable in most of our everyday lives. Whether we’re sharing, commenting or lurking, our connection to social media can be a complicated love-hate relationship.

Nearly half (49.1%) of all businesses and organizations lease the location used for their operations, and of those, more than one in six (17.8%) had less than one year remaining on their lease, while nearly half (47.9%) had between one and three years left.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

The high-frequency electricity data (HFED) visualization tool was recently launched on the Canadian Centre for Energy Information website. Depending on data availability, this tool provides users with comprehensive access to provincial electricity data for a number of variables (such as load, demand, and generation), and in near real-time.

Canada is known for its ethnocultural and religious diversity, a value which is largely shared among the population. In fact, according to the 2020 General Social Survey - Social Identity, 92.0% of the population aged 15 years and older agreed that ethnic or cultural diversity is a Canadian value.

Our Sweet summer in Canada series explores vacation destinations across the country that report the highest levels of life satisfaction. Last month, we featured Quebec, the province that reported the highest levels of life satisfaction in Canada. As the second part of our series, we’re exploring some popular vacation destinations in the province that reported the second-highest levels of life satisfaction: Newfoundland and Labrador.

E-commerce sales totalled $45.1 billion in 2023, accounting for 5.7% of total retail sales from Canadian-based retailers. Based on that number, and the steady stream of packages landing on doorsteps, the number of deliveries necessary to get all the goods to Canadian households certainly isn’t slowing down.