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The Weekly Review, June 24 to 28, 2024
Prices and price indexes
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Article
Statistics Canada's look at the week.
Sewing a Canada Day quilt with census data
Population and demography
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Article
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.
A few clouds with some rays of sunshine in the high school job market this summer
Labour
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Article
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.
Scrolling through the social media stats
Digital economy and society
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Article
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.
For many Canadian businesses, the time to move has come (or not)
Business performance and ownership
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Article
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.
The Weekly Review, June 17 to 21, 2024
Prices and price indexes
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Article
Statistics Canada's look at the week.
Trip through the wires: Electricity data, past and present
Energy
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Article
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.
Improving data to reflect the ethnocultural diversity of Canada’s population
Immigration and ethnocultural diversity
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Article
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.
Sweet summer in Canada: A vacation in Newfoundland and Labrador
Travel and tourism
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Article
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.
More Canadians delivering packages, costs slowing
Digital economy and society
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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.