In every province, women report more unmet health care needs than men. Nova Scotia has the widest gap: 14.4% of women, 10.2% of men in 2024. Alberta's is the narrowest. inspurious.com/story/9c7791... #healthcare

Suicide is often framed as a young person's tragedy. But in Canada the male rate peaked at ages 55–64 in 2024: 21.5 per 100k. Men's rate was higher than women's at every age. inspurious.com/story/e210b0... 9-8-8 is Canada's crisis line, 24/7. #Canada

Halifax is both younger and older than it was in 2001. Its age distribution is now bimodal, with peaks in the late 20s and around 60. Back in 2001 there was just one clear peak, around age 40. inspurious.com/story/2e3173... #Halifax #NovaScotia

Windsor's unemployment rate swings further from the national average than almost any other Canadian city. July 2009: 15.7%, deep in the auto collapse. Oct 2016: 4.8%. By 2024: back up to 9.1% vs. Canada's 6.7%. inspurious.com/story/fa174d... #Windsor #employment

Which grocery items have risen in price the most since 2017? A: beef top sirloin (up 81%), infant formula (78%), and coffee (75%) lead the pack of 106 tracked grocery items. Across all items, prices rose 37%. inspurious.com/story/4ea4ec... #groceries #inflation

Canada's international student population peaked in Jan 2024, the quarter Ottawa capped new study permits. By Jan 2026 it was down 37%. In Ontario, it was roughly cut in half. inspurious.com/story/4ffa7c... #immigration #Canada

Heart disease deaths in BC have fallen dramatically since 2000, from 246 to 123 per 100,000 (age-standardized). Cancer, stroke, flu/pneumonia, and chronic lung disease deaths fell too, but less steeply. inspurious.com/story/2e0579... #BritishColumbia #health

In the 2025 federal elections, 55% of Alberta's 18-24 year olds voted vs 77% of 65-74 year olds. This gap has held in every federal election since 2004. Same pattern nationwide, not just Alberta: inspurious.com/story/97960c... #AlbertaVotes #Elections

Quebec has lost residents to the rest of Canada almost every quarter since 1961. A single quarter in the late 1970s saw a net loss of over 20,000 people. Since late 2022 alone: -21,095. inspurious.com/story/0428c3... #Quebec #Migration

Saskatoon has grown 63% since 2001, nearly double Canada's 34% growth. In 2025 it grew 2.4% vs 0.9% for Canada. inspurious.com/story/2dbcd0... #Saskatoon #Canada

Outside Quebec, French immersion enrolment has grown 82% since 1997–98, while core French enrolment fell 20% over the same span. Immersion now makes up 27% of French-as-second-language students, up from 14%. inspurious.com/story/e17c54... #education #Canada

In 1987, ~13,000 people fished for a living in Newfoundland & Labrador (7% of the workforce). After the 1992 cod moratorium, it collapsed. By 2025: 3,100 jobs, just 1.3% of the workforce. inspurious.com/story/124590... #Newfoundland #fishing

Only 42% of hip/knee replacements in Quebec happened within the 6-month benchmark in 2024–25. PEI: 36%. Ontario: 80%. Huge provincial gap in surgery wait times. inspurious.com/story/397f2e... #healthcare #Canada

Between 1999 and 2020, road deaths for people inside vehicles in Canada fell ~50%. By contrast, deaths for "vulnerable road users" (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists) fell only ~10%. Result: vulnerable road users went from 22% of all road deaths in 1999 to 34% by 2020. #RoadSafety #Canada

Children now make up just 15% of Canada's population, down from 18.9% in 2001. Every one of the country's 41 metro areas experienced a decline over those 24 years, from a 0.8-point dip in Quebec City to a 7-point drop in Barrie, ON. #Canada #demographics

Canada's fertility rate just hit a record low: 1.25 children per woman in 2024, down 27% from 1.72 in 1991. Every province is now well below the 2.1 replacement level. inspurious.com/story/ad014b... #Canada #fertility

Zero-emission vehicles hit 18.3% of new car registrations in Canada in late 2024, up from just 0.8% in 2017. Then Quebec paused its EV rebate and the share fell to 11.2%. inspurious.com/story/dc763f... #EVs #Canada

Alberta health worker wages rose just 6.6% from 2001 to 2026 after adjusting for inflation, versus a 21.2% rise for Alberta workers overall. inspurious.com/story/80aa88... #Alberta #healthcare

Cancer causes 38.8% of deaths among Canadians aged 65–74. By 85+, that share falls to 15.8% as other conditions take over. inspurious.com/story/04b9ba... #cancer #health

Infant formula is up 67% in Canada since 2019, making it the 2nd largest price increase across over 100 products tracked by Statistics Canada. A 900g tin now averages $49.77, up from $28.39. inspurious.com/story/6d0d66... #inflation #groceries

Victoria has the fewest children of any major Canadian city — just 11.7% of residents are under 15, vs. a national average of 15.0%. inspurious.com/story/121a72... #Victoria #demographics

17.6% of Saskatoon's population is under 15 years old, which is the highest share of any Canadian city. That's 2.5 points above the national average, and it's held that top spot since 2001. inspurious.com/story/711de6... #Saskatoon #demographics

Ontario health worker wages beat inflation since 2001, but just barely. After adjusting for inflation, gains were only 11% over 25 years (smaller than the average wage growth across all occupations). inspurious.com/story/d21a4c... #Ontario #healthcare

To be middle class in Calgary, you need $38k–$103k according to the OECD's benchmark of 75% to 200% of the local median income. How does your city compare? inspurious.com/story/0c255a... #Calgary #income

Victoria's rental vacancy rate is 2.5% in 2025 — below the 3% balanced market threshold, but the highest in years. Victoria and Vancouver have both run tighter than the national average for most of the past 25 years. inspurious.com/story/39da637b-a845-409e-b632-c560f3b1e510 #Victoria #housing

Private school enrolment in Ontario has grown — but public schools still dominate at 92%. Private is up from 5.1% in 2006 to 7.4% today. Homeschooling peaked at 1.1% during COVID, now sits at 0.6%. inspurious.com/story/1ddc2d... #Ontario #education #Canada

BC's fertility rate fell to 1.00 children per woman in 2023 — the lowest ever recorded by any Canadian province. It ticked up to 1.02 in 2024, still well below Canada's 1.25. inspurious.com/story/8ec8b4... #BritishColumbia #Canada

Young women and girls vape more than their male peers. But after 25, the pattern reverses. inspurious.com/story/224749... #Canada #DataViz #PublicHealth #Vaping #Nicotine #YouthHealth

Canada had 364k pig farms in 1951. Today, only 7.4k are left (98% drop). Yet the national pig herd has nearly tripled to 14.6 million. Average herd size increased from 14 to nearly 2,000. 🐷📊 inspurious.com/story/38114f... #agriculture #farming #Canada

Since the early 1970s, Vancouver's apartment vacancy rate has never hit the 3% balanced market threshold. At its tightest in 1981, the vacancy rate fell to just 0.1%. inspurious.com/story/13545e... #Vancouver #housing #rentalmarket

Vancouver's apartment vacancy rate has been low since the 1970s - Inspurious

The vacancy rate — the share of rental units sitting empty — is the simplest measure of rental market pressure: near 1%, landlords hold almost all the bargainin

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