Justice · 5 min
In 1998, Canadian police cleared 60% of reported frauds — on par with how often they cleared a sexual assault that year. By 2025, that number is 10.3%, the largest decline of any offence among the 17 major categories we examined. It's happening against a backdrop of its own: the national violent-crime clearance rate bottomed at a 28-year low in 2023 and has only partly recovered since.
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Vegetable oil has climbed 138% since January 2020, the steepest sustained increase among items StatCan tracks. Beef striploin is up 89.5% over that same stretch and 46% in the past year alone. Month to month, cantaloupe jumped 25.1% in June even as broccoli and tomatoes both got cheaper. The swings show how uneven grocery inflation remains from one item to the next.
Quebec's EV market crashed when its provincial rebate ended in January 2025. The first 2026 numbers are in, and matching last year's total by December would take almost triple the current sales pace, more than a revived federal rebate or a new quota on Chinese imports can deliver.
Across every province, Maytree modelled 44 welfare households against Canada's official poverty line in 2025. Forty-three came in below what the basics cost. The one exception, in Quebec, reaches just 3 percent of the province's social assistance caseload.
Canada's youth unemployment rate rose from 10.0% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025. We checked it against the full StatCan record back to 1976: every bigger 3-year rise in that history rode a recession. This one hasn't.
Ontario's government spent 1,967 dollars per resident on hospitals in 2023, the lowest of any province and about 974 dollars less than Nova Scotia. The obvious defence is that Ontario has a younger population. Adjusting for age barely moves the number.
You asked us for an arson versus lightning breakdown of the wildfires we mapped. Only Alberta publishes one. It shows arson is a rounding error by area, 95 per cent of it a single fire, and a fifth of what Alberta maps has no cause in the province's own file — though other governments hold one for almost all of it.
Robbery has been halved and attempted murder sits at a 28-year low, but extortion has quadrupled in a generation. It has come off its 2023 national peak, yet stays concentrated in B.C.'s Fraser Valley and in Peel, where it is still climbing.
The three largest shifts Pew has recorded in Canadian opinion of the United States in 24 years are not wars or trade fights. They are the three most recent changes of president.
Six years of ridership data from the agencies' own records show one Canadian city carrying more riders than before the pandemic. Then, in 2026, every city we can measure turned down at once.
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