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Many of Canada’s most popular baby names in 2024 also ranked among the most popular in six other countries around the world, as far afield as across the pond and down under.

Back in the Roaring Twenties, when the Dominion Bureau of Statistics was just eight years old, we published our first iteration of what would ultimately become our monthly gross domestic product release.

In the second quarter of 2025, roughly one in five Canadian businesses and organizations (19.8%) planned to take new or additional cybersecurity actions over the next 12 months. 

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

Just over 9 in 10 (91%) households in Canada had at least one thermostat in 2023. Of those households, almost three in five (59%) had one thermostat, while more than one-third (37%) of those households had more than one—perhaps setting the stage for many temperature-setting battles from different rooms. 

Canada has an abundance of natural assets, including vast areas of land and the longest coastline in the world. The Census of Environment mines multiple data sources to measure the direct and indirect benefits Canadians receive from nature. 

A StatCan study released last month, entitled “Mood disorders among older Canadians,” is among relatively few studies that have examined the prevalence of and factors associated with mood disorders in people aged 65 years and older.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

The rumbles beneath your feet that you probably felt a few times earlier this month wasn’t always a snowplow—it might have been a stampede of Canadians headed back to school, the workplace, and other places as the holidays gave way to routines.

Canadian residents spent $20.3 billion on visits within Canada in the second quarter, up 13.5% from the second quarter of 2024. It was the most spent in any second quarter on record.