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More than three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s health care system continues to face challenges in caring for patients, particularly on the part of nurses and related occupations.

The late great Ontario-born songwriter Gordon Lightfoot wrote “it was good to be Alberta Bound” back in 1972. A half-century later, Canadians are once again Alberta bound, with almost half of the newcomers arriving in the first quarter of 2023 hailing from Ontario. 

In the years leading up the pandemic, full-service restaurants enjoyed a larger slice of the total food and drink sales pie than limited-service eateries, such as fast-food joints, coffee and donut shops.

It’s summer in Canada, which, for most of us, also means road construction season! While we don’t have stats on how many orange cones you have to weave around (at a safe speed!) or on the number of minutes you’re stuck in traffic (will it ever end!), we can give you a shovelful of other related numbers.

A couple of million lakes and rivers, plus the longest ocean coastline in the world make Canada a premier fishing destination. Let’s cast our rod into our rapidly flowing river of fish data and see what we can pull out. Unlike most fishing tales, you can trust this story.

Nearly one in five businesses (19.5%) in the manufacturing sector planned to expand the current location of the business or organization over the next 12 months, close to triple the proportion of all businesses (6.7%).

Private short-term rentals in Canada over doubled its market share in the accommodation services subsector over a five-year period, rising from 7.0% of total revenue in 2017 to 15.2% in 2021, according to a new study.

The nearly 10.9 million tonnes of residential waste generated across Canada in 2020 was the highest amount on record since we started tracking in 2002 and was 13,880 tonnes higher than in 2018. There were over 15.2 million tonnes of waste from non-residential sources in 2020, up 360,820 tonnes from 2018.