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Using data from the 2021 Canadian Housing Survey, we look at the characteristics of Canadians living in subsidized housing.

Personal relationships can add value to life in many different ways. For most, family and friends can provide an important sense of comfort and belonging. Satisfaction with personal relationships can also influence other factors, such as mental health and overall well-being.

To mark National Police Week, we would like to salute the 70,566 police officers we counted on May 15, 2022, and thank them for the 11.9 million calls for service they responded to in 2021/2022.

The conventional image of a Canadian farm is a family farm, operating independently with the occasional helping hand from a neighbour. While that holds true for most farms in Canada today, just over one in five (39,170) farms in Canada had one or more employees working on them.

The 64^th International Statistical Institute’s (ISI) World Statistics Congress (WSC) will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, from July 16 to July 20, 2023. StatsCAN Plus had the pleasure of catching up with Conchita Kleijweg, Director of the ISI, to get the scoop on the conference and what to look forward to.

Most vegetables grown in Canada won’t be ready for harvest until mid-summer or the fall, but Canadians can enjoy domestically grown asparagus starting in May. Canadian farmers grew enough asparagus in 2022 to make almost 21 million asparagus frittatas.

Sunday, May 14 is Mother's Day.

To mark this special occasion, we found some data on flowers—the sweet gifts of spring blooming for mothers of all kinds all over Canada today.

Every two years, as part of the Households and the Environment Survey, we’ve asked Canadians about their bird-related purchases. When asked most recently in 2021, about one-quarter of Canadian households (26%) made purchases to feed or shelter birds on their property in the previous 12 months, consistent with previous years going back to 2011.