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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will initially put in 500 million euros, nearly 780 million Canadian dollars, to the European Union's 90 billion euro Ukraine Support Loan. In return, Ukraine could buy weapons from Canadian firms with EU money, and Canada shares the interest bill. The final terms have not been published.
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The federal government will put up to 1.6 billion dollars of equity into Cohere, the Toronto AI company, in stages. The real test is whether that buys Canada lasting economic value, and getting the money back is only one measure. Ottawa's pandemic stake in Air Canada made money. The 2009 auto rescue did not.
Canada buys roughly two-fifths of the goods exported from Maine and Michigan, the two states a U.S. ambassador reportedly singled out in a warning about the midterms. Across the seven Senate toss-ups, Canada's share ranges from 8% in Texas to 41% in Maine.
Toronto, London and Windsor had the biggest yearly increases in mortgages 90 or more days behind. Seven of the eight largest increases were in Ontario, while late payments fell in several Prairie cities.
Over the past five years, gasoline (+33.1%), rent (+30.4%) and groceries (+27.6%) rose faster than pay. The average hourly wage rose 21.9%, ahead of overall prices (+19.0%), so an hour's pay buys 2.4% more than five years ago, about 0.5% a year. Over the past 12 months, wage growth picked up to 2.3%, against 3.1% for prices.
Change from Sep 2021 to Sep 2026 · Statistics Canada
About 12 per cent of outstanding Canadian mortgages are in the final wave of pandemic-era five-year fixed-payment loans renewing over the next 12 months. The Bank of Canada estimates their payments will rise by about 15 per cent on average, based on market rate expectations from May.
A kilowatt-hour costs less in Montréal than in any other big Canadian city. Quebec households still pay more for electricity in a year than households in British Columbia or Ontario, and about the same as Manitoba and Saskatchewan, because they use far more of it.
Canadians aged 25 to 34 with a bachelor's degree or higher earned 39.18 dollars an hour in 2025, more than any other education group. But their inflation-adjusted pay rose just 1.5 percent since 2009, while wages for trades certificate holders climbed 13.7 percent.
In 1993, seven in ten Canadians said there was too much immigration. In 2026, opinion is evenly split. What has changed is who says it: Conservative and Liberal voters gave similar answers for decades and are now 44 points apart.
Every final poll underestimated Olivia Chow, and three of seven had Brad Bradford ahead. Betting favourites lost 6 of 19 Ontario mayor races, close to what their own odds implied.
Mayors in Mississauga, Kingston, Windsor, Oakville, Milton, Waterloo and Niagara Falls lost on Monday, and Hamilton's Andrea Horwath finished third. In 2022, every mayor in these cities who ran again won.
GDP, inflation, the Bank of Canada policy rate, unemployment, wages, the trade balance and retail sales, with five years of history.
Statistics CanadaThe latest consumer price index, the Bank of Canada's core measures, and how each province and category compares.
Refreshed every 4 hoursA weighted average of national federal polls, next to what prediction markets expect.
Whether wages are keeping up with prices, updated every month.
The big economic indicators with the methodology that StatCan actually uses.
Express Entry, permanent residents, foreign workers and students.
Growth by province, age, births and deaths.
How Canadian health outcomes compare across provinces and against peer countries.
The data behind the dominant Canadian political story of the decade.
Where federal and provincial money goes and who decides.
The numbers with methodology caveats stated up front.
The numbers behind Canada's climate commitments and where progress is real.
How Canadians get around, measured from the operators' own open-data files.
Canada's teams and athletes measured against the world, from the governing bodies' own results data.
Every figure traces back to a named primary source — Statistics Canada, Health Canada, Bank of Canada, CMHC, provincial open-data portals. Table identifiers are linked on the chart page.
Where a comparison depends on a definition, the definition is stated. Where the data has known limitations, those limitations appear on the chart, not in a footnote nobody reads.
When a chart, map, or visualization needs context the picture alone can't carry, we publish a longform explainer that walks through what the numbers do and don't support.
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