Canada added another 60,000 jobs to its economy in June despite the country’s unemployment rate ticking upward to its highest percentage in over a year, says Statistics Canada. StatCan wrote in its “Labour Force Survey” for June that the increase in jobs, which it says was driven mostly by gains in full-time work, brought Canada’s employment…

Nearly 6 million respondents to Canada’s “2021 Census of Population” marked their ethnicity or cultural origins as “Canadian,” making it the most named of any ethnicity by census users, according to Statistics Canada figures released on May 10. Question 23 on Canada’s last long-form census asked respondents to identify the “ethnic or cultural origins” of…

Inflationary pressures are causing average living standards in Canada to fall despite an overall increase in wages, says a new Statistics Canada report. “High inflation especially for food products has put a severe strain on living costs especially among more vulnerable households as income and saving levels adjust to the withdrawal in pandemic-related supports,” said…

StatCan numbers reveal the percentage of permanent residents who become Canadians has plummeted over the past 20 years. The Institute for Canadian Citizenship says Statistics Canada data points to a 40 percent decline in citizenship uptake since 2001. The group’s CEO, Daniel Bernhard, calls the drop alarming and says it should serve as a “wake…

The latest release of 2021 census data shows Canada continues to lead the G7 countries for the most educated workforce thanks to its strong college sector and highly educated immigrants. Just over 57 percent of workers aged 25 to 64 have a college or university credential. Statistics Canada says almost one in four working-age people…

A new Statistics Canada study finds women post-secondary graduates were more likely to receive the Canada Emergency Response Benefit in 2020 than male graduates. The study also finds that those who graduated in 2018 with a college-level certificate or diploma were more likely to access the benefit than the general working population. The federal government…

The number of job vacancies across Canada reached an all-time high in March, ending a five-month decline, Statistics Canada said Thursday. The agency said employers were seeking to fill more than one million positions at the beginning of March, up 186,000 positions or 22.6 percent from February and 382,000 or 60.5 percent from the prior…

A new report by Statistics Canada has pointed out that at the same time that cases involving child sex abuse and child pornography are rising, fewer such cases are being solved. Fifteen percent of child pornography incidents were cleared, leaving over 8 out of 10 incidents (85 percent) not cleared. Of online child sexual predation and…

Statistics Canada says the jobless rate fell in April to another record low as employment was little changed for the month with a gain of 15,300 jobs. The unemployment rate came in at 5.2 percent for April compared with the previous record low of 5.3 percent set in March. Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug…

Excess mortality rates among younger Canadians rose as the COVID-19 pandemic wore on, which may have been the result of increased substance use and missed medical appointments, according to Statistics Canada. The federal agency released the latest provisional data on April 14, which shows that overall excess mortality—meaning more deaths than expected in a given period—climbed…