Parksville, British Columbia, is one of the rare places in Canada with a mild Mediterranean climate and a long sandy ocean beach, which most likely explains why it has the largest concentration of seniors of any city in Canada.
The Prairie provinces continue to power Canada’s agricultural output. According to the 2021 Census of Agriculture, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta combined to make up over 51.2 million hectares of farm area, or over four-fifths (82.3%) of the 62.2 million hectares of total farm area nationwide.
Easter Sunday, along with Christmas, are the biggest celebrations of the year for the world’s 2.3 billion Christians. In fact, these may well be the only two days of the year when a Christian will go to church.
The carrot is one of those rare vegetables that you can use to make a cake. It also has a great crunch when eaten raw. Canadian farmers grow more carrots than any other root vegetable.
“Not having Statistics Canada data would be like driving on the highway with no steering wheel and not knowing where you’re going,” laughed Maryse Fredette, Director of Development, Businesses and Services at the Société de développement économique de Drummondville (SDED), a non-profit organization deemed to be the “economic arm” of the city and 16 neighbouring municipalities.
The town of Matane, located on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, was home to 18,474 people according to the 2021 Census of Population, 420 fewer compared with five years earlier.
Approximately one in eight Indigenous people (237,420 people) reported they could speak one of 70 distinct Indigenous languages well enough to conduct a conversation in 2021, 10,750 fewer people compared with 2016, and the first decline since comparable data started being collected in 1991.
