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Statistics Canada's look at the week.

Whether it’s to save money, care for aging parents, or both, multigenerational households are on the rise—and more common in some parts of the country than others.

Perhaps playing all those video games as a kid was not a waste of time after all—at least for those who turned their long hours of gaming into a career. Indeed, the video game industry is the world’s fastest-growing media industry. Here in Canada, the number of video game design firms more than doubled from 2013 to 2022, with most of that growth due to small firms with fewer than five employees.

Radon is a radioactive gas that you cannot see, smell or taste, and it can get into your home undetected. It can be a health hazard when it enters enclosed spaces in your home, typically through cracks, openings in the foundation or gaps around pipes, and accumulates to a high level. Long-term exposure to radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

It’s back to school for 5.8 million children and youth across Canada, and that means millions upon millions of lunches and snacks will be packed in the weeks and months ahead.

According to results released in the spring from the Survey of Oral Health Care Providers, there have been various challenges reported by oral health care providers in Canada. There were differences observed by geography for the rates of insured versus uninsured patients and the capacity of the practice to limit wait times or take new patients. 

Construction on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project began in the summer of 2018. The project, which involved construction of a new pipeline parallel to the existing one, was proposed to ease the bottleneck on Western Canadian crude and increase flows to the West Coast, opening access to new markets. The pipeline expansion became fully operational in May 2024 and since then has nearly tripled the capacity of the existing pipeline through the Rocky Mountains from Edmonton, Alberta, to the port of Burnaby, British Columbia, where Canadian crude can be shipped to new markets by sea. 

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

The Rocky Mountains of Alberta are world-renowned for their majestic beauty and are well loved among Canadians, with almost 5.5 million domestic visits to the region in 2024. Let’s take a look at domestic visits to Alberta’s Rockies, with a focus on who visits and when, where they stayed, how they got there and how much they spent while visiting.