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A Sunlife survey found 19% of Canadians have a full plan for caring for an aging or sick relative. By 2045, Canada will have about half as many people aged 45 to 64 per person aged 85 and older.
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CMHC's September release raised its estimate of July's annual pace of housing starts by 17,267 and August's by 13,177. Those are revisions to annual-rate estimates, not a count of extra homes. September came in at a 248,896 annual pace.
From November 3, 2026, a qualifying job offer in a high-wage occupation can earn up to 100 Express Entry points. Canadian work in a high-wage occupation can earn up to 70 points on top of work-experience points. Candidates get the higher option, not both.
Four companies sell about 67 cents of every dollar spent on groceries in Canada, by a USDA estimate of 2023 sales. In the United States the top four sell about 35 cents. Other estimates for the top four or five run as high as 80 percent.
Over the past five years, rent (+30.5%), groceries (+29.0%) and gasoline (+25.3%) rose faster than pay. The average hourly wage rose 21.6%, ahead of overall prices (+19.1%), so an hour's pay buys 2.1% more than five years ago, about 0.4% a year. Over the past 12 months, wage growth slowed to 2.0%, against 3.0% for prices.
Change from Aug 2021 to Aug 2026 · Statistics Canada
Toronto approved more homes than any other Canadian metro. Per resident, it sits near the bottom of 42. Nine of the ten metros with the fewest approvals per person are in Ontario.
Canada's population grew by 189,425 people between July 2025 and July 2026. Over the same 12 months, permits were issued for 303,006 new homes. Two years earlier there were 4.3 new residents for every home approved.
Students at private career colleges received 1,331 million dollars in OSAP grants in 2024-25, more than university students. Ontario has since moved career-college students to loans only and paused all OSAP payments associated with private postsecondary institutions during an audit.
Saskatchewan has one mayor or councillor for every 258 residents. Ontario has one for every 5,093. The councils are about the same size; Saskatchewan just has far more of them.
The Parti Québécois took 59 of 127 seats on 28.02 per cent of the vote, five seats short of a majority. Of 180 provincial elections since 1960, no winning party has had a smaller share.
Albertans vote on ten questions on October 19. Premier Danielle Smith has named a winning bar for only one, the question on leaving Canada. On two others that poll under 50 per cent, yes is still ahead of no.
GDP, inflation, unemployment, wages, the trade balance and retail sales, with five years of history.
Statistics CanadaThe latest consumer price index, the Bank of Canada's core measures, and how each province and category compares.
Refreshed every 4 hoursA weighted average of national federal polls, next to what prediction markets expect.
Whether wages are keeping up with prices, updated every month.
The big economic indicators with the methodology that StatCan actually uses.
Express Entry, permanent residents, foreign workers and students.
Growth by province, age, births and deaths.
How Canadian health outcomes compare across provinces and against peer countries.
The data behind the dominant Canadian political story of the decade.
Where federal and provincial money goes and who decides.
The numbers with methodology caveats stated up front.
The numbers behind Canada's climate commitments and where progress is real.
How Canadians get around, measured from the operators' own open-data files.
Canada's teams and athletes measured against the world, from the governing bodies' own results data.
Every figure traces back to a named primary source — Statistics Canada, Health Canada, Bank of Canada, CMHC, provincial open-data portals. Table identifiers are linked on the chart page.
Where a comparison depends on a definition, the definition is stated. Where the data has known limitations, those limitations appear on the chart, not in a footnote nobody reads.
When a chart, map, or visualization needs context the picture alone can't carry, we publish a longform explainer that walks through what the numbers do and don't support.
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