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  1. Okay, done. We've been censed.

    #StatsCan's official motto:
    "Don't cens us, we'll cens you."

    #Census2026 #Census #shortForm

  2. Okay, done. We've been censed.

    #StatsCan's official motto:
    "Don't cens us, we'll cens you."

    #Census2026 #Census #shortForm

  3. Okay, done. We've been censed.

    #StatsCan's official motto:
    "Don't cens us, we'll cens you."

    #Census2026 #Census #shortForm

  4. Okay, done. We've been censed.

    #StatsCan's official motto:
    "Don't cens us, we'll cens you."

    #Census2026 #Census #shortForm

  5. Okay, done. We've been censed.

    #StatsCan's official motto:
    "Don't cens us, we'll cens you."

    #Census2026 #Census #shortForm

  6. 🧵I didn’t like the care survey I got from Stats Can.
    I think it asked a lot of suggestive questions about what they were measuring, but nowhere did it ask about affordability, or what prevents participation, etc.

    Like questions about my work/self employment as an artist…how many hours? it’s my life, the rest & the work, the thinking, research, drawing, painting, social media sharing, marketing, all of it…

    #statsCan #statistics #Canada #actuallyautistic #adhd #poverty #violence #crime

  7. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.715

  8. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/3392-

  9. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    macleans.ca/the-year-ahead/ten

  10. Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCan

    misryoum.com/us/canada-news/ca

    The numbers are as sobering as a zero-proof margarita.Canadians are buying less alcohol, leading to the largest annual drop in beer, wine and spirits sales in the 20 years Statistics Canada has tracked the data, according to the agency's latest...

    #Canadians #are #drinking #less #driving #the #biggest #drop #alcohol #sales #years #StatsCan #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  11. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    globalnews.ca/news/11544814/ca

  12. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    ctvnews.ca/canada/article/retu

  13. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wom

    fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/women-

  14. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/xma

  15. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71

  16. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6203-

  17. Good Morning #Canada
    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.

    #CanadaIsAwesome #Sandwich

    My favourite type of bread: Please boost for scientific significance.

  18. 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
    ctvnews.ca/health/article/cana

  19. 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
    ctvnews.ca/health/article/cana

  20. Good Morning #Canada
    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.

    #CanadaIsAwesome #Automobile

  21. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    madeinca.ca/marriage-statistic

  22. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-prim

  23. Imagine if the news media (dreaming in technicolor now) did a yearly report on the Quality of Life Hub reporting. Government policy makers might suddenly care about the #StatsCan web site and begin calculating how an individual policy might positively impact our quality of life.

  24. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    www160.statcan.gc.ca/index-eng

  25. Good Morning #Canada
    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
    www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/e

  26. #Victoria #commuters #walk, #bike to #work more than any major #city in #Canada

    The new #commuting #data from the 2021 #census, released on #StatsCan’s website Wednesday, shows that around 1 in 20 commuters (5.3 per cent) “regularly #biked to work in 2021, by far the highest rate” out of Canada’s 41 biggest #cities.

    cheknews.ca/victoria-tops-for-

  27. The volume of beer sold per person in Canada last year reached an all-time low, while the wine sales based on volume also experienced its largest decline since tracking began in 1949, according to Statistics Canada.

    #Canada #Drinking #Wines #Beers #Ciders #Coolers #StatsCan

    thestar.com/news/canada/2023/0

  28. Good Morning #Canada
    It's my birthday today, 68 years young, so I'm up early wondering how many of my fellow Canadians are of similar age. There's still quite a few, according to #StatsCan, with 2.4 million of us in the 65 to 69 year range. Not crazy about the trend of more of us disappearing as those age bands get older, but thankfully, I'll likely be gone before my retirement funds run out. I'm a #GlassHalfFull type.

    #CanadaIsAwesome
    www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71

  29. Gender diversity of Canadian postsecondary students, 2021/2022 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11

    Amazing how much time and energy folks spend "debating" about this "massive" population, isn't it? I'm off to figure out what other groups are so over-represented in our headspace...

    #TRAHR #StatsCan #PSE

  30. Canada will be hitting 40 million people very soon and StatsCan has made a real-time countdown so we can all watch it tick over together because... fun?
    www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71

    #Canada #CDNpoli #population #worldpopulation #statscan

  31. The #NovaScotia government says it's getting caught up in providing data on deaths to Statistics Canada — information that an infectious diseases expert says is key to more accurately assessing the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    #Covid #Statscan #Data
    #NSGov #NSPoli #TimHouston
    𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
    Nova Scotia trails other provinces in reporting deaths, but says it's making headway

    cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

  32. The volume of beer sold per person in Canada last year reached an all-time low, while the wine sales based on volume also experienced its largest decline since tracking began in 1949, according to Statistics Canada.

    #Canada #Drinking #Wines #Beers #Ciders #Coolers #StatsCan

    thestar.com/news/canada/2023/0

  33. The volume of beer sold per person in Canada last year reached an all-time low, while the wine sales based on volume also experienced its largest decline since tracking began in 1949, according to Statistics Canada.

    #Canada #Drinking #Wines #Beers #Ciders #Coolers #StatsCan

    thestar.com/news/canada/2023/0

  34. The volume of beer sold per person in Canada last year reached an all-time low, while the wine sales based on volume also experienced its largest decline since tracking began in 1949, according to Statistics Canada.

    #Canada #Drinking #Wines #Beers #Ciders #Coolers #StatsCan

    thestar.com/news/canada/2023/0

  35. The volume of beer sold per person in Canada last year reached an all-time low, while the wine sales based on volume also experienced its largest decline since tracking began in 1949, according to Statistics Canada.

    #Canada #Drinking #Wines #Beers #Ciders #Coolers #StatsCan

    thestar.com/news/canada/2023/0

  36. Gender diversity of Canadian postsecondary students, 2021/2022 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11

    Amazing how much time and energy folks spend "debating" about this "massive" population, isn't it? I'm off to figure out what other groups are so over-represented in our headspace...

    #TRAHR #StatsCan #PSE

  37. Gender diversity of Canadian postsecondary students, 2021/2022 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11

    Amazing how much time and energy folks spend "debating" about this "massive" population, isn't it? I'm off to figure out what other groups are so over-represented in our headspace...

    #TRAHR #StatsCan #PSE

  38. Gender diversity of Canadian postsecondary students, 2021/2022 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11

    Amazing how much time and energy folks spend "debating" about this "massive" population, isn't it? I'm off to figure out what other groups are so over-represented in our headspace...

    #TRAHR #StatsCan #PSE

  39. Gender diversity of Canadian postsecondary students, 2021/2022 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11

    Amazing how much time and energy folks spend "debating" about this "massive" population, isn't it? I'm off to figure out what other groups are so over-represented in our headspace...

    #TRAHR #StatsCan #PSE

  40. More than 86 per cent of #London's #apartment #condos are owned by #investors: #StatsCan | #CBCNews

    "New data from #Statistics #Canada suggests more than 86 per cent of all apartment condominiums in the City of London were owned by investors in 2020 — a sign first-time buyers are being squeezed out of the #market by investors, who are cashing in on the city's severe undersupply of purpose-built #RentalApartments."

    cbc.ca/news/canada/london/lond