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Good Morning #Canada
The #CCG has an enormous job covering the world's longest coastline: over 243,000 km of coast and 5.3 million square km of water. Unlike many other nations, the Canadian Coast Guard has no military, naval, or law enforcement duties. On an average day, the CCG coordinates multiple search and rescue operations, saving roughly 13 to 15 lives daily. All with only 6,700+ staff plus 4,000 volunteers in the CCG Auxiliary. -
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This week PM Carney announced the building of 6 new #Icebreakers for the #CCG - Canadian Coast Guard services. In commemorate that event I think we need a #CCG_Week full of #History , facts and stories about this important department. The CCG was officially announced in 1962, although many of its responsibilities were handled by various ministries dating back to 1867. Fasten your life jackets for the week ahead. -
Good Morning #Canada
This week PM Carney announced the building of 6 new #Icebreakers for the #CCG - Canadian Coast Guard services. In commemorate that event I think we need a #CCG_Week full of #History , facts and stories about this important department. The CCG was officially announced in 1962, although many of its responsibilities were handled by various ministries dating back to 1867. Fasten your life jackets for the week ahead. -
Good Morning #Canada
This week PM Carney announced the building of 6 new #Icebreakers for the #CCG - Canadian Coast Guard services. In commemorate that event I think we need a #CCG_Week full of #History , facts and stories about this important department. The CCG was officially announced in 1962, although many of its responsibilities were handled by various ministries dating back to 1867. Fasten your life jackets for the week ahead. -
Good Morning #Canada
This week PM Carney announced the building of 6 new #Icebreakers for the #CCG - Canadian Coast Guard services. In commemorate that event I think we need a #CCG_Week full of #History , facts and stories about this important department. The CCG was officially announced in 1962, although many of its responsibilities were handled by various ministries dating back to 1867. Fasten your life jackets for the week ahead. -
Good Morning #Canada
This week PM Carney announced the building of 6 new #Icebreakers for the #CCG - Canadian Coast Guard services. In commemorate that event I think we need a #CCG_Week full of #History , facts and stories about this important department. The CCG was officially announced in 1962, although many of its responsibilities were handled by various ministries dating back to 1867. Fasten your life jackets for the week ahead. -
Good Morning #Canada
The long range forecast for the eastern half of Canada reports that we can expect a longer fall and a delayed start to winter. That means plenty of time for a #RoadTrip and some out of this world #BigStuffInSmallTowns. Welcome to Moonbeam Ontario where a #UFO has landed, and is still there. The saucer is only 3 metres high which means the green men or women are little. Cannabis recommended while visiting.#CanadaIsAwesome #Immigration
https://www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/57uq8q76aglfv9wpn9bd1uilapwc1g -
Good Morning #Canada
The long range forecast for the eastern half of Canada reports that we can expect a longer fall and a delayed start to winter. That means plenty of time for a #RoadTrip and some out of this world #BigStuffInSmallTowns. Welcome to Moonbeam Ontario where a #UFO has landed, and is still there. The saucer is only 3 metres high which means the green men or women are little. Cannabis recommended while visiting.#CanadaIsAwesome #Immigration
https://www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/57uq8q76aglfv9wpn9bd1uilapwc1g -
Good Morning #Canada
The long range forecast for the eastern half of Canada reports that we can expect a longer fall and a delayed start to winter. That means plenty of time for a #RoadTrip and some out of this world #BigStuffInSmallTowns. Welcome to Moonbeam Ontario where a #UFO has landed, and is still there. The saucer is only 3 metres high which means the green men or women are little. Cannabis recommended while visiting.#CanadaIsAwesome #Immigration
https://www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/57uq8q76aglfv9wpn9bd1uilapwc1g -
Good Morning #Canada
The long range forecast for the eastern half of Canada reports that we can expect a longer fall and a delayed start to winter. That means plenty of time for a #RoadTrip and some out of this world #BigStuffInSmallTowns. Welcome to Moonbeam Ontario where a #UFO has landed, and is still there. The saucer is only 3 metres high which means the green men or women are little. Cannabis recommended while visiting.#CanadaIsAwesome #Immigration
https://www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/57uq8q76aglfv9wpn9bd1uilapwc1g -
Good Morning #Canada
The long range forecast for the eastern half of Canada reports that we can expect a longer fall and a delayed start to winter. That means plenty of time for a #RoadTrip and some out of this world #BigStuffInSmallTowns. Welcome to Moonbeam Ontario where a #UFO has landed, and is still there. The saucer is only 3 metres high which means the green men or women are little. Cannabis recommended while visiting.#CanadaIsAwesome #Immigration
https://www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/57uq8q76aglfv9wpn9bd1uilapwc1g -
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On September 8th we celebrate International Literacy Day and this year it coincides with #BackToSchool. Canada's education system is well regarded worldwide and our #Literacy rates are slightly above the world average. But there are gaps with 15% of Canadians considered functionally illiterate.
#StatsCan provides us with an excellent snapshot of Literacy, Numeracy and Adaptive Problem-Solving skills of Canadians.#CanadaIsAwesome #Reading
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241210/dq241210a-eng.htm -
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It's #NationalDogDay and you are legally obligated to spoil your doggo. Start now.
According to #StatsCan and the internet, therefore true, here are some Canadian dog facts.
- In 2022, Canucks owned 7.9m dogs
- Large dogs, over 22.5kg, made up 40%
- Most popular dog breed = Labrador Retriever (12%)
- Prairie provinces, Northern Canada, and B.C. are more likely to own dogs
- 42% of Maritimers allow dogs to sleep in their bed -
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In downtown Toronto you can find Simcoe Park and the 100 Workers Monument. Erected in 2000, it was an initiative of Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to shine a light on workplace safety. The monument features 100 plaques that describe an actual fatal on-the-job accident from 1901 to 1999, some mundane and others gruesome. A final plaque was left blank to represent future tragedy.#CanadaIsAwesome #WorkplaceSafety
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#Hotdogs vs #Hamburgers ? We're serving both at our family #BBQ today but internet data, therefore 100% true, indicates Canadians eat an average of 8 hotdogs annually versus 20 Hamburgers. Even if we consider that Costco Canada sells 36.6 million hotdogs every year, there must be some outliers dragging up those averages because I'm well below average. That's what she said last night...#CanadaIsAwesome
Hot dogs Versus Hamburgers | CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thedebaters/hot-dogs-vs-hamburgers-northern-tourists-1.3755552/hot-dogs-are-better-than-hamburgers-1.4138518 -
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We Canadians are fortunate enough to have water close to us and we enjoy a wide variety of water sports. For example, the internet states, and therefore must be true, that 14.8 million Canadians participate in kayaking or canoeing. Paddle Canada also states there are 318 billion trees across Canada.
Here's some older data from #StatsCan with fascinating numbers on our activities on the water.#CanadaIsAwesome #Kayak #Canoe #GetOutside
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/1372-flow-chart-how-canadians-love-water -
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Under a sprawling Toronto block of condo towers, offices, shops and six levels of underground parking, lies a huge battery. Known as "the well", it's a thermal battery full of water that provides heating and cooling to surrounding buildings. It's part of the Toronto district energy system that uses Lake Ontario to heat and cool over 100 buildings in the downtown area.#CanadaIsAwesome #EnergyConservation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/thermal-storage-explainer-1.7163743 -
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This past weekend my wife and I went looking for a small independent #Grocery store in the #Innisfil area where we could buy fruits and vegetables, similar to what we had access to in #Caledon. Unfortunately we only have the big grocery chains nearby, Sobey's and Metro, until the farmer's markets start opening in June. As we discovered our limited options, I was reminded of this Marit Stiles' video on food prices.#CanadaIsAwesome #Affordability
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Canadian beekeepers depend on the arrival of up to 300,000 queen bees every year from countries like Italy, Chile and USA to supplement domestic demand, according to #StatsCan. That's because Canada has been dealing with a sustainability problem where honey bee colonies have been dying at unsustainable rates for over a decade. New research conducted by the U of Guelph hopes to change that.#CanadaIsAwesome #Science #Apiculture
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In theory every Friday is a #GoodFriday because it leads to a weekend for most of us. Good Friday is determined by #EasterSunday, which is celebrated on the 1st Sunday after the first full moon in spring (after March 21st). Totally logical.
According to the last #StatsCan census over 29% of Canadians identify as Catholic, although only approximately two thirds attend church regularly.#CanadaIsAwesome #Religion
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/3392-happy-easter -
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Happy National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day to all those who likely have to work today. Over 55% of businesses in Canada have less than 5 employees, and 73% have less than 10. A late 2025 #StatsCan survey reports business confidence is high despite tariff challenges, and 30% of companies report higher sales of Canadian products.Maclean's made some business predictions for 2025 and pretty much got them wrong.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Entrepreneur
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A few weeks ago our local #CBCradio host was interviewing an debt counselor, likely due to the arrival of Christmas credit card bills. The segment reinforced the data that Canadians carry high levels of debt, unfortunately among the highest percentage of income worldwide. Mortgage debt, according to ##StatsCan, is flat to slightly declining, likely because new home purchases by younger Canadians is down, but car loans, personal lines of credit, and credit card debt are all up in 2025.
Our government continues to try and respond by offering tax credits and supplemental payments which invariably get sucked up by corporations. They have to change the game - build public housing or invest in leasehold or cooperative homes, build public options for utilities, internet, food or other necessities. Invest heavily in public transit and subsidize it so that it's low cost or free. Remove corporate profits from necessities.#CanadaIsAwesome #Finance
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My morning routine includes #CBCRadio with my coffee and this morning they had an interesting segment on Canadian youth returning to church. According #StatsCan 2022 data, 22% of Canadians ages 15-24 attended religious services at least once a month. That's a significant increase compared to ages 25 to 64. Angus Reid found that positive views of religion by #GenZ adults grew from 35 to 40% between 2023 to 2025, while views from every other generation significantly decreased.
This led me to read several news articles from late last year that reported on these studies, one of which is linked below. It appears the trend became noticeable during and after COVID lockdowns. The words of multiple interviewees tells me that young people's were looking for community and human interaction with something grounded with a sense of morality. That's positive even if you don't believe in her holiness above.#CanadaIsAwesome #Hallelujah
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/return-to-faith-church-attendance-increasing-for-first-time-in-decades/ -
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2026 has been designated as the International Year of the Woman Farmer by the United Nations, in an effort to increase and improve food security across the planet. Once again we call upon the fairer sex to save humanity.
Women led farms are on the rise in Canada. From the 2021 #StatsCan report, there were 80,000 female farm operators, representing 30% of total farm operators, up from 25% in 1991. In general female participation is increasing while men are decreasing. Farming is an industry where women operators can achieve wage parity with male counterparts because compensation is based on market conditions, but currently most women led farms are smaller with less annual revenues.A helpful #AI tells me a female farmer could could be called a farmerette, a farmeress, or farmHER. So helpful...
Two articles are linked - a feel good news piece from the CBC, and more solid demographic info from FCC-FAC.ca.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Agriculture
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/women-career-agriculture-1.7443846https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/women-in-canadian-agriculture
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Have you put up your #ChristmasTree yet? #StatsCan (2021 census data) reports there are 1,364 Christmas tree farms. Ontario (418) had the most farms, followed by British Columbia (276) and Quebec (257). Nova Scotia’s 213 farms were more than the combined total of the Prairie and Maritime provinces (199). Canadian Christmas tree producers earned nearly $163.5M in 2021, and exported over 2.4 million fresh Christmas trees that same year. most of which (97.2%) ended up in the United States. Final destinations for most of them were Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia. Trump's tariffs hit artificial trees with a 30% price hike which means it could be an excellent year for real Canadian trees in the U.S. market. Most of the remaining exports in 2021 were to warmer climates in the Western Hemisphere, including Panama, Curaçao, Bermuda, Aruba, St. Maarten (Dutch part) and Barbados.#CanadaIsAwesome #HoHoHo
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/xmas-tree-trends-2025-9.6993539 -
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You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm -
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Checking my fake holiday calendar, and I see it's Go For A Ride Day. I guess that could include cars, trains, skateboards, horses, and your favourite human, but let's focus on bicycles. Some people say Canada is too big to have a cycling culture and that's why there's only 1 bike for every 4 Canadians. But those are the people who have never heard of cities... or are named Doug Ford. Only 6% of Canadians are active commuters, meaning walking or biking, but it's more prevalent in Victoria (18.7%) and Halifax (12.3%). About one-third (34%) of neighbourhoods across Canada have no cycling infrastructure but some municipalities have invested in high-comfort bike lanes (dedicated & protected pathways), including Montréal (360 km), Vancouver (246 km), Edmonton (226 km) and Québec City (190 km).Here's some #StatsCan data on commuting by bike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Biking #GetOutside
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6203-bike-work-day-cycling-through-data -
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Happy National Homemade Bread Day for all those with enough dough to celebrate. There's no data on how many of us make their own bread at home, but there are 1,321 bakery product manufacturing establishments and more than 1,406 retail bakeries in Canada. Canada annually ranks in the top 10 worldwide in wheat production, 6th or 7th, depending on the year, but we don't eat a lot of bread. #StatsCan says we consume approximately 30 kg per person yearly, which doesn't put us in the top 30 internationally - Turkey's citizens eat 6 times as much as us. We spend about 10% of our grocery bill on baked goods, and that has increased almost 30% over the past 5 years. Canada exports $5.2B in baked goods annually with $5B of that going to the U.S. market.My favourite type of bread: Please boost for scientific significance.
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Good Morning #Canada
I slept in this morning, getting an extra 90 minutes or so of extra #ZZZs. I usually get 7 to 8 hours of sleep, meeting the Canada Health recommendations, and apparently better than most Canadians. The attached article has some sleepy stats from a study commissioned by IKEA but doesn't address sleeplessness due to stress related furniture building. Some additional data:- 60% of Canadians say they wake up “well rested”.
- Albertans are sleep-deprived as only 9% say they never find it hard to fall asleep. Compared to Saskatchewan and Manitoba (19%), Ontario (20%), B.C. and Atlantic Canada (27%), and Quebec (28%).
- 47% of us say money and financial matters affected our sleep.
- Quebec residents use more sleep medications (11.5%) than those in Ontario (6.7%), and we have Doug Ford.
- Only 5% of Canadians would give up intimate relations for better sleep.(Data from Research Co., Leger, #StatsCan)
#CanadaIsAwesome #WakeUp
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadians-are-losing-sleep-at-an-alarming-rate-recent-reports-suggest/ -
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This morning, our old Mazda goes in for new brakes, front and back, and install the snow tires. While sipping my coffee, I was wondering about auto stats in Canada....- Canada ranks 23rd worldwide in vehicles per 1,000 people. USA ranks 10th.
- COVID put and end to rising car ownership. In 2020 there were 473 vehicles for every 1,000 people. Today, it's estimated to be 408.
- 11% of Canadians own 3 or more vehicles, 2% own 5 or more.
- 9% own an electric vehicle or hybrid.
- 78% of Canadians say it would be impossible for them not to have a car.
- 41% wish they had better transportation options to avoid needing a car altogether.
- Compared to 2024, car ownership costs have increased 9 per cent, rising from $5,025 to $5,497 annually.Data from Wikipedia, #StatsCan, and Car Ownership Index.
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I've been a bachelor since Thursday as my wife is in Toronto helping my daughter with her latest chemo session. She's back late Monday when life, for me, returns to normal. According to #StatsCan, being married at our age (late 60s) is the most prevalent relationship. But Canadians in younger age brackets are more likely these days to be living common-law and getting married later in life, if at all. Canada has one of the highest rates of common-law relationships worldwide and the highest in the G7. Between 1981 and 2021, common-law couples increased 447% while the number of married couples grew by only 26%. Common-law unions are most prevalent in Nunavut (52%), Quebec (43%), and the Northwest Territories (36%). It's no surprise that more than half of Canadians believe that marriage is not necessary, and even less surprising that this opinion is stronger with young men versus young women.#CanadaIsAwesome #Relationship
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And welcome to Day 2 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming. Just made that up. Let's continue the series with some very interesting overall statistics, which I, admittedly a numbers nerd, found insightful.
Depending on the source, it's estimated that less than 10% of Canada’s land is suitable for farming. According to 2021 #StatsCan data, approximately 6.2% of Canada was being actively farmed but a significant amount of farmland was being lost to urban sprawl. The average age of farmers in Canada is 56, and as they retire corporations are buying up the land, resulting in fewer individuals in the industry but the average farm is larger in size. Although today Canada punches above its weight in global comparisons, there are some challenges to maintaining our agricultural land.#CanadaIsAwesome #FarmLife
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-prime-farmland-1.6877661 -
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There is a little known reporting tool on the ##StatsCan website called Canada’s Quality of Life Hub. First proposed in 2021, and launched in 2023, it is a framework that gathers data and evidence to inform priority setting and guide decision-making in various policy areas, including the budgetary process. The Framework comprises five domains –prosperity, health, environment, society, and good governance – and two cross-cutting lenses: fairness and inclusion, and sustainability and resilience. Not enough Canadians have heard of it, and I suspect very few government policies are implemented before analyzing the impact on quality of life measurement by this tool. On a positive note, #StatsCan is looking for feedback on how to improve the hub.#CanadaIsAwesome #QualityOfLife
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Today is World Population Day, established by United Nations as a result of the massive interest people had in Five Billion Day in 1987. It's a good day to get an update on Canada’s population growth, which was aggressive in 2023 when we hit 40M, and then hit 41M just a few months into 2024. The #StatsCan Real Time Tracker is not working for some reason, but we still have their Quarterly Estimates data. At the end of June, there were 41,548,787 of us strolling around Canada, with every province and territory showing growth.#CanadaIsAwesome #INeedMySpace
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710000901 -
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Before our move to #Innisfil, we spent 16 years in Caledon living on top of the Niagara Escarpment. We were fortunate to take advantage of the hiking trails and scenic beauty of the area with the Bruce Trail, Forks of The Credit Road, and numerous parks within a few kilometers. More Canadians should be aware of this approximately 1,050-kilometre geological feature that today is protected in Ontario as a continuous corridor.#CanadaIsAwesome
https://youtu.be/5V5DIgF2yag?si=Z4tTs4k-3htyv6V8 -
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#HappyBirthday to Jessica Elizabeth Stam, born OTD in 1986, in Kincardine, Ontario. Stam originally wanted to become a dentist, but in your typical Canadian fairytale, she was discovered in a local Tim Hortons coffee shop by an agent from the International Model Management agency in Barrie, Ontario. She went on to become one of Canada’s most successful supermodels.
BTW, maple dipped donuts are awesome.#CanadaIsAwesome #SuperModel
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Today is my birthday but I was today years old to discover that I share this day with one of my favourite artists. Alex Colville was born David Alexander Colville on August 24th 1920 in Toronto, Ontario. He spent his entire career in Canada, primarily in Nova Scotia, studied painting at Mount Allison University and served as a military artist in WWII. He passed away July 16th 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.#CanadaIsAwesome #Artists #AlexColville
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/alex-colville/biography/