Transportation was responsible for 187.7 megatonnes (28.0%) of overall greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, and the largest proportion was from road transportation, which included all types of vehicles and fuels.
In 2019, there were nearly 6.2 million tonnes of plastic in products produced for Canadian consumption, and nearly 2.3 million (36.9%) of those tonnes were in packaging.
Salt marshes are a type of tidal wetland along Canada’s coastline.
Nearly one-third of the utility companies in Canada employed energy storage systems to better harness the power of the wind and the sun in 2019.
Winkler, Manitoba’s fourth largest community, became a city 21 years ago. In Winkler, one in four people were aged 14 years or younger as of July 1, 2022, making it Canada’s youngest census agglomeration.
For the first time, Statistics Canada has compiled a list of the nation’s most popular baby names from 1991 to 2021.
Weather-related emergencies occur every year in Canada. In the fall of 2022, almost one-third (32%) of Canadians living in rural areas told us they had taken steps to prepare for a natural disaster or weather-related emergency in the previous 12 months compared with just under one in four urbanites (23%).
Like many societies across the world, interwoven in the Canadian identity are particular social, democratic, and diversity values. Canada’s Quality of Life Framework therefore assesses the extent to which such values are shared, as part of its monitoring of factors such as social cohesion, community vitality and opportunities for cultural expression.
