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A few clouds with some rays of sunshine in the high school job market this summer

June 26, 2024, 11:00 a.m. (EDT)
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The long-awaited day has finally arrived. High school’s out for summer—and for some, forever! Some teens will be making their first foray into the job market in the coming days. Let’s take a look at how the labour landscape for Canadian youth aged 15 to 19 is shaping up heading into the summer of 2024.

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Scrolling through the social media stats

June 25, 2024, 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
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Social media has found a way to make itself comfortable in most of our everyday lives. Whether we’re sharing, commenting or lurking, our connection to social media can be a complicated love-hate relationship.

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For many Canadian businesses, the time to move has come (or not)

June 24, 2024, 11:00 a.m. (EDT)
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Nearly half (49.1%) of all businesses and organizations lease the location used for their operations, and of those, more than one in six (17.8%) had less than one year remaining on their lease, while nearly half (47.9%) had between one and three years left.

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Trip through the wires: Electricity data, past and present

June 20, 2024, 2:00 p.m. (EDT)
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The high-frequency electricity data (HFED) visualization tool was recently launched on the Canadian Centre for Energy Information website. Depending on data availability, this tool provides users with comprehensive access to provincial electricity data for a number of variables (such as load, demand, and generation), and in near real-time.

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Improving data to reflect the ethnocultural diversity of Canada’s population

June 19, 2024, 11:00 a.m. (EDT)
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Canada is known for its ethnocultural and religious diversity, a value which is largely shared among the population. In fact, according to the 2020 General Social Survey - Social Identity, 92.0% of the population aged 15 years and older agreed that ethnic or cultural diversity is a Canadian value.

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Sweet summer in Canada: A vacation in Newfoundland and Labrador

June 18, 2024, 11:00 a.m. (EDT)
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Our Sweet summer in Canada series explores vacation destinations across the country that report the highest levels of life satisfaction. Last month, we featured Quebec, the province that reported the highest levels of life satisfaction in Canada. As the second part of our series, we’re exploring some popular vacation destinations in the province that reported the second-highest levels of life satisfaction: Newfoundland and Labrador.

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