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Nearly half of Canadians say that they are finding it 'harder to distinguish between true and false news or information' compared to three years prior.

Higher oil and gasoline prices pushed overall inflation in May to 3.2 per cent compared with a year ago, according to Statistics Canada.

High oil and gasoline prices are expected to push inflation higher when Statistics Canada reports its consumer price index for May on Monday.

Vehicle insurance premiums also rose 23.9 per cent due to extreme weather claims, according to Statistics Canada in newly released data.

According to a Statistics Canada press release, 'census enumerators will begin contacting households from which a completed questionnaire has not yet been received.'

Debate has raged on Parliament Hill over whether the country is in a recession since Statistics Canada reported last week that the economy shrank for two quarters in a row.

Statistics Canada says economic growth stalled in the first quarter and real gross domestic product was slightly negative on an annualized basis.

Canadian visits to the U.S. declined in the last quarter of 2025 and Canadians also spent less money while travelling south of the border, data from Statistics Canada shows.

Canada’s tariff-hit manufacturing sector led the growth in February, rising 1.8 per cent. This was the largest growth for the sector since January 2023.

New numbers from Statistics Canada show Manitoba tied for the highest annual inflation rate among the provinces last month, partly driven by jumps in grocery prices and taxes.

Consumer inflation surged last month to 2.8 per cent compared to a year earlier with higher gas prices being the primary driver, according to Statistics Canada.

But the rate of firearm-related violent crime in 2024 was still 44 per cent higher than 10 years earlier, when it stood at 25 incidents per 100,000 population.

Statistics Canada found that the share of millennials in Metro Vancouver living with their parents more than doubled between 1991 and 2021.

In 2021, 16.3 per cent of millennials between the ages of 25 and 39 were living with at least one parent, a Statistics Canada study released Wednesday said.

Full-time international students in public post-secondary institutions decreased four per cent for the academic year 2024-25 and 26 per cent in 2025-26, Statistics Canada said.

The agency says the income gap in the top 40 per cent and those in the bottom 40 per cent, reached 46.7 percentage points in 2025.

A new survey from Statistics Canada shows that Albertans are less satisfied with the quality of life in Canada when compared to other Canadians.

Cucumbers, peppers and celery all saw price growth in March, 'due in part to tighter supplies related to adverse growing conditions in producing countries,' Statistics Canada said.

Canadians earned higher hourly wages in March compared with the same time last year, with average hourly wages rising 4.7 per cent, Statistics Canada said.

The net worth of Canadian households, calculated as the value of all assets minus all liabilities, rose 1.3 per cent in the first three months of 2026 to reach $18.6 trillion.