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To kick off this Labour Day weekend, let’s celebrate the contribution of Canadian workers with some cold hard facts.

Over half of Canadians followed the news or current events on a daily basis from a variety of mediums. Let’s take a look at how much money the mediums with a stake in the news business made or lost…

Though we’re well into the digital age, Canadians still like to get some ink done—in the form of a variety of print jobs, that is.

Parents and students across Canada are getting ready for the new school year with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety. However, before the studying begins in earnest, some serious shopping is required. Let’s take a look at what back to school will cost parents this year compared with 12 months earlier.

Saskatchewan is world-famous for growing things. In 2022, it led Canada in economic growth.

Finding a place to rent can be difficult in today’s tight housing market, with the median monthly shelter cost paid by renters rising 17.6% from 2016 to $1,070 in 2021 (unadjusted for inflation). New renters, that is, those who had started renting a property within the past year in 2021, were paying on average $300 more a month than established renters ($1,320 compared with $1,020).

The Provincial Nominee Program was first introduced 25 years ago to increase the settlement of economic immigrants outside Canada’s three largest cities and to address the workforce needs of employers. Over the years, the share of economic immigrants arriving through the program has risen from 1% in 2000 to 35% in 2019, when 68,000 nominees entered Canada, making it the largest selection program for economic immigrants nationally.

A new study looks at the associations between the local restaurant environment, the frequency of eating food from restaurants, and the intake of sugary drinks among Canadian children and youth living in a large city.