https://opendatacanada.ca/ Charts, maps and explainers built from Canadian public data. en-ca Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-business-succession-buyer-risk-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-business-succession-buyer-risk-2026 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A brand-new Statistics Canada table shows 20.3 percent of private-sector businesses in Canada plan to sell or transfer ownership within 10 years, rising to 26.6 percent among businesses more than 20 years old. Among the smaller group planning to sell within 2 years, StatCan asked for the first time what happens if a buyer can't be found: 46.8 percent called closing or scaling down likely, and 46.5 percent called selling at a reduced price, or to a less-preferred buyer, likely too. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-gdp-winners-since-2019 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-gdp-winners-since-2019 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Real GDP is up 14.6% since January 2019, but the industries behind that number aren't the ones you'd guess. Finance and professional services have each grown by nearly a third; health care by about a quarter. Manufacturing is the one broad industry that still hasn't gotten back to where it started. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-mobile-data-prices-g7-2024 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-mobile-data-prices-g7-2024 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ottawa spent two years tracking wireless prices down and declared victory in January 2022. A federal price-comparison study shows Canada has stayed among the three most expensive places for a basic mobile plan among G7 countries plus Australia, at every plan size tracked, and by late 2025 the prices that did fall were climbing again. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-oil-gas-jobs-production-gap-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-oil-gas-jobs-production-gap-2026 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Crude oil production is up 34% since 2014 and sits at a record high. Oil and gas extraction employment is down 13.6% over the same span and has never recovered its 2014 peak. Pembina Institute flagged a version of this gap in 2025; this piece extends the comparison through 2025 with Statistics Canada and Alberta Energy Regulator data, plus a separate look at oil sands capital spending. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/road-fatality-rate-canada-2023 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/road-fatality-rate-canada-2023 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT New Brunswick had Canada's highest road fatality rate in 2023, 8.5 deaths per 100,000 people, more than double Ontario's 3.9. Switch to fatalities per kilometre actually driven and Atlantic Canada is still worst, but the order inside it shifts, and a couple of provinces move a lot: Alberta looks mid-table by population and drops close to the national average once its driving distances are counted. Nova Scotia moves the same way. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/foreign-bond-buying-secondary-market-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/foreign-bond-buying-secondary-market-2026 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Statistics Canada reported foreign investors bought a record 106 billion dollars of Canadian bonds in the second quarter of 2026, coverage that led with the headline number. Break the total down by transaction type and about 95 billion dollars was secondary-market trading of bonds that had already been issued — not new financing for Canadian borrowers. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ttc-streetcar-delays-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ttc-streetcar-delays-2026 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Diversions and cars parked on the rail account for 35 percent of all streetcar delay-minutes since the start of 2025, far more than mechanical failure. Crews and cars in the way combined explain six in ten delay-minutes across the full 2024-2026 period. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ttc-subway-delay-map-2025 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ttc-subway-delay-map-2025 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Adjusting 2025 delay records for typical-weekday station activity produces a completely different ranking than the raw count. Twelve of the top twenty stations by this measure never show up in the raw top twenty at all. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ttc-subway-delay-minutes-2025 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ttc-subway-delay-minutes-2025 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT We ranked TTC stations by 2025 delay-record counts weighted for station usage. This time we ranked them by actual delay minutes instead, and ran a tougher statistical test on top of it. Rosedale, Donlands, Summerhill and Greenwood all lock in a top-five spot. The fifth is a genuine toss-up among five stations. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/alberta-ontario-union-coverage-2025 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/alberta-ontario-union-coverage-2025 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Alberta and Ontario have the lowest union coverage rates of any Canadian province in 2025, and both have bounced back from a low point since — Alberta's bounce three times as large as Ontario's. But being lowest today isn't the same as falling fastest: Prince Edward Island actually posted the largest gain of any province since 1997, while British Columbia, not Alberta or Ontario, saw the steepest decline of the full period. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-ai-data-centres-age-divide https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-ai-data-centres-age-divide Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A Nanos poll finds a real generational split on whether AI data centres will hurt the economy, 38% of Canadians 18-34 versus 28% of those 55+. Opposition to government subsidies for building them is a separate story, high at every age, with no meaningful age gap at all. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-july-jobs-private-sector-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-july-jobs-private-sector-2026 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The headline jobs number is genuinely good: full-time and part-time gains were balanced, and unemployment matched a two-year low. But almost 60 percent of July's employment growth came from people going self-employed, private employers added 57,900 jobs, and the public sector cut 27,000 — the piece no outlet covering the release reported. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-grocery-prices-2026-06 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-grocery-prices-2026-06 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-fraud-clearance-collapse-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-fraud-clearance-collapse-2026 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/quebec-ev-sales-need-to-triple-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/quebec-ev-sales-need-to-triple-2026 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/welfare-vs-poverty-line-2025 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/welfare-vs-poverty-line-2025 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Across every province, Maytree modelled 44 household scenarios 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ontario-hospital-spending-lowest-2023 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/ontario-hospital-spending-lowest-2023 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/alberta-wildfire-causes https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/alberta-wildfire-causes Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-extortion-rising-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-extortion-rising-2026 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-us-favourability-presidents https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-us-favourability-presidents Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-transit-ridership-recovery-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-transit-ridership-recovery-2026 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-soccer-federal-funding https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-soccer-federal-funding Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The World Cup Canada co-hosted ends this weekend. Federal grant records show soccer gets about 3 dollars a player in program funding, less than diving or curling, while 220 million dollars went to hosting the tournament. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-china-us-favourability https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-china-us-favourability Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pew finds 44% of Canadians view China favourably against 33% for the United States, the lowest U.S. reading in Canada since 2002. It is the second time Canadians have rated China the higher of the two, after a narrower crossover in 2017 and 2018. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/forced-labour-import-ban-canada https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/forced-labour-import-ban-canada Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The United States has stopped 42,807 shipment lines under its forced-labour import ban. Canada, bound by the same CUSMA obligation, has one shipment on its public record, later released. Washington has charged a 10 per cent tariff over it since July 24. Ottawa's fix has been consulted on but is not law. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/bombardier-lmia-saint-laurent-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/bombardier-lmia-saint-laurent-2026 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The request coincides with 306.5 million dollars in federal funding for Bombardier's aerospace business, and lands during a technical recession, with manufacturing unemployment rising. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/climate-concern-seniors-vs-gen-z https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/climate-concern-seniors-vs-gen-z Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT New StatCan survey data flips the usual climate-anxiety script. Canadians 65 and older report the highest concern of any age group, while 15-to-24-year-olds report the least. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-foreign-aid-2025 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-foreign-aid-2025 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT While the United States slashed foreign aid by 57 percent and the rich-country average fell by nearly a quarter, Canada trimmed just over 2 percent. Yet a look at where the money went shows more than half of it now goes to Ukraine or is spent inside Canada on refugees, leaving the smallest share for the developing world in years. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-us-flights-by-airport-2026 https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-us-flights-by-airport-2026 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The 52.8 percent cross-border collapse was mostly car trips. In the air the US pullback is milder, about 10 percent nationally, but it lands unevenly. Toronto and Vancouver carry the most US exposure. Edmonton and Winnipeg fell the hardest. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-grid-2050-energy-mix https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/canada-grid-2050-energy-mix Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The CER's net-zero scenario maps every technology from 2024 to 2050. Wind grows ninefold to become the biggest source of capacity, hydro stays roughly flat, gas keeps a smaller but real role, and nuclear stays modest. It is the regulator's modelling of one pathway to net-zero, not a forecast. https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/nuclear-strategy-cer-gap https://opendatacanada.ca/articles/nuclear-strategy-cer-gap Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Canada's new National Nuclear Energy Strategy promises to supercharge atomic power. The regulator's own net-zero model hands nuclear 5 percent of new capacity through 2050 — and assigns wind 62 percent. Ontario alone faces a potential 14.6 GW nuclear delivery gap by midcentury.