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While the hot days of summer are not generally associated with the cold or flu season, approximately one in seven Canadians reported having a respiratory infection in the summer of 2024. This is what they told us about their experience. 

The Canadian electricity sector saw another challenging year in 2024. Many of the factors and trends observed in 2023 played a role again in 2024, particularly the persistent dry conditions that continued to reduce hydroelectricity generation, Canada’s largest electricity generation source. 

Canada has by far the longest coastline in the world, but relatively few employees sailing the deep blue sea or the Great Lakes or working in offices ashore.

Radishes are among the first vegetables to be planted and harvested during Canada’s short growing season, generally taking only one month to grow from seed to harvest. 

With World Music Day just around the corner, now is a good time to tune into what is happening in the Canadian music scene. In 2023, the most recent year for which data are available, sales in the record production and distribution industry rose by over one-fifth from two years earlier to $903.3 million.

Canada is blessed with many excellent restaurants where one might overhear a non-official language spoken among staff. While the accommodation and food services sector ranked third in the number of workers using a non-official language at work in 2021, other languages, generally in combination with English or French, were also used by workers at hospitals, realtor offices, construction sites, farm fields or warehouses.