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Radishes are among the first vegetables to be planted and harvested during Canada’s short growing season, generally taking only one month to grow from seed to harvest. 

With World Music Day just around the corner, now is a good time to tune into what is happening in the Canadian music scene. In 2023, the most recent year for which data are available, sales in the record production and distribution industry rose by over one-fifth from two years earlier to $903.3 million.

Canada is blessed with many excellent restaurants where one might overhear a non-official language spoken among staff. While the accommodation and food services sector ranked third in the number of workers using a non-official language at work in 2021, other languages, generally in combination with English or French, were also used by workers at hospitals, realtor offices, construction sites, farm fields or warehouses.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

For the fourth consecutive year, production of crude oil and equivalent products reached a record high, up 4.3% from 2023 to 298.8 million cubic metres in 2024.

March is Nutrition Month in Canada, and this year’s theme is Nourish to Flourish. Food plays an important role in everyone’s life and is essential to all aspects of our health and well-being. From physical and mental health to social and cultural connections, we nourish to flourish. 

Transit agencies reported 1.6 billion passenger trips in 2024, equivalent to 40 transit rides for every Canadian. Many Canadians rely on public transit to get around every day, with over 1 in 10 commuters taking it to get to work, while others seldom or never use it. One factor often overlooked in the time spent “on public transport” is the time it takes to reach the nearest transit stop from home on foot.