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“If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.” This famous (and probably apocryphal) quote, usually attributed to Mark Twain, could often be applied to Canada. It’s not uncommon to experience several seasons in one week, or even in one 24-hour period. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, we can expect more extreme weather events, including “increasing wildfires, more intense droughts and hurricanes, and more intense heat waves.”

Museums, big and small, all contribute to our collective memory and are prized destinations for school groups, parents with young children, and tourists alike. Many museums are also a business. In the first half of 2024, we counted 1,661 museum businesses with and without employees, all doing their part to keep Canada’s past alive.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

Today, Statistics Canada is releasing new data from the Canadian Oral Health Survey (COHS) conducted in 2023/2024 on Canadians’ avoidance of oral health services, including avoidance of visits to an oral health-care provider or avoidance of recommended care because of cost.

If you’re a new parent reading this, we know you’re already intimately familiar with what it means to be one—because you’ve been there, time and time again.

Canada is filled with all kinds of beautiful landscapes. Although much of the greenery is covered up by a layer of snow and will be for the next few months, snow-covered scenery can be equally breathtaking.

Outside of winter wheat growing beneath the snow, not much is happening on Canadian crop farms at this time of the year, providing farmers with some much-needed time to reflect on last year’s harvest and start planning for the crop ahead. How exactly did last year’s harvest shape up? Let’s take a look.

Many children, adults too, eagerly await the holiday season for the arrival of the latest electronic swag, whether it be a computer, gaming console, smart phone or flat screen television. What happens to those fancy new gadgets a few years down the road, when they break down, become obsolete or are no longer loved or used, is up to the households that buy them.

The start of the New Year offers a chance to break old habits, form new ones and set meaningful goals. For adults resolving to become more active this year, a study looked at how many Canadians were meeting the recommended 150 minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in the years leading up to the pandemic and explored some of the underlying factors on why some Canadians may not be meeting the guidelines.

In 2024, Canada was home to 10.9 million census families—that is, couples with or without children and one-parent families. Among the census families, 9.1 million were couple families, while the remaining 1.8 million were one-parent families.