For the past several months, if you were having a hard time finding furniture, appliances or even a car, you weren’t alone.
A combination of increased consumer demand and supply-chain issues amid the COVID-19 pandemic have led to shortages in various categories of consumer goods.
Many Canadians love the classic simplicity of the peanut butter and honey sandwich, while others enjoy a pile of honey-garlic wings (the best, right?), or anything else made with that sweet nectar.
Honey is definitely the bee’s signature staple, but did you know that some of these hard-working insects also pull duty in making sure a lot of our other food is grown?
Did you know all of your favourite StatsCAN Plus content (and more) can be found on the StatsCAN App? Plus, this week it celebrates its 6-month anniversary!
The Bank of Canada upped its policy interest rate by 0.25% in the first quarter, followed by two more 0.5% hikes in the second quarter and a 1% increase in July—the highest single increase in 25 years.
Measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 bring a unique set of challenges to LGBTQ2+ people in Canada—that is, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Two-Spirit, or who reported using another term that refers to sexual or gender diversity.
Here are some snippets from our new publication, “Research to Insights: Immigration as a Source of Labour Supply.”
Check out the full report for more information on the role of immigration in addressing challenges in the supply of labour.
Corn, sweet corn is there anything you cannot do?
You can eat it fresh, frozen or from a can, make tortillas or bread with its flour, or feed it to livestock. You can even drive your car using ethanol made from corn.
Let’s shuck the husks off of our big pile of corn data and dig into this super, sweet vegetable.
