Happy Holidays from our Statistics Canada family to yours!

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Happy holidays from our Statistics Canada family to yours!
Description: Happy holidays from our Statistics Canada family to yours!

(A festive winter scene is visible in the background of the card, including groups of diverse peoples offering gifts to one another, talking, walking together, waving at one another, playing with a dog, carrying a Christmas tree, etc. A larger central group stand together embracing each other.)

Happy holidays from our Statistics Canada family to yours!

In the new year, with your support, we will continue to provide you with timely data and insights as we push forward to build an even better Canada.

Warm wishes for a happy and healthy 2022!

This past year, Canadians continued to reconnect. In person or from afar, our holiday spirit and cheer spread from coast to coast to coast.

(In the foreground, three holiday ornaments are visible with text in each.)

We stayed in touch.

57% of Canadians (15 years of age and older) video-conferenced with family and friends more often since the start of the pandemic.

Source: Internet use and COVID19: How the pandemic increased the amount of time Canadians spend online.

We sent each other a little something.

$56.6 billion in retail sales in September.

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 2010-0008-01. Retail trade sales by province and territory (x 1,000).

We found ways to get together.

The tourism, accommodation and food services sectors showed a higher number of active businesses for the third straight month in August.Footnote *

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 33-10-02790-01. Experimental estimates for business openings and closures for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted.

(Below a string of colourful holiday ornaments, the Statistics Canada logo, Canada wordmark and the Chief Statistician’s signature are visible at the bottom of the card.)

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