Catch up on the latest facts and read more via the links below in case you missed them this week!
- Canadian businesses spent $26.6 billion to protect the environment in 2021, an increase of 16.3% from 2020. – Read more
- Canadian households and businesses diverted almost 10 million tonnes of waste from landfills in 2022, unchanged compared with 2020. – Read more
- Month over month, the total value of building permits in Canada increased 9.3% to $11.8 billion in February. – Read more
- Provisioning services from commercial activities in Canada totalled 293 million tonnes in 2020, with 51% from agricultural ecosystems; 49% from forests; and 0.3% harvested from marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems. – Read more
- In the fourth quarter of 2023, Canadian households spent $45.8 billion (seasonally adjusted, in 2017 constant dollars) on transport, accounting for 13.6% of total household consumption expenditures. – Read more
- The overall lifetime probability of developing cancer stood at 44.3% in 2018, with men (45.1%) slightly more likely to develop cancer than women (43.5%). – Read more
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