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Statistics Canada's look at the week. 

October 1 is National Seniors Day. In 2024, there were 5.5 million Canadians living in a senior family—families in which the highest income earner is aged 65 years or older—as well as 2.2 million unattached seniors. Today, seniors, also known as older Canadians, are proudly Canadian, report a high level of satisfaction with their family relationships and are less likely to be living in poverty than Canadians overall.

Statistics Canada's look at the week. 

In the third quarter of 2026, approximately one in five (20.3%) businesses in Canada said that they intend to sell or transfer ownership within the next 10 years. Other businesses either did not intend to sell or transfer ownership within the next 10 years (42.6%), or their plans were unknown (37.1%).

There were 58,811 new registrations of ZEVs across Canada in the second quarter of 2026, an increase compared with the first quarter of 2026 (43,113) and the second quarter of 2025 (46,413). This was the highest quarterly total since the fourth quarter of 2024, when 81,216 new ZEVs were registered.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The orange shirt symbolizes the loss of culture, freedom and self-esteem that many Indigenous children experienced. This day reminds us that “Every Child Matters.”

Statistics Canada's look at the week.

In Canada, 14% of those aged 16 to 65 years had literacy scores at levels 4 and 5, compared with an average of 11% among the 27 participating Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

Statistics Canada's look at the week.