OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 2, 2026 /CNW/ - Statistics Canada is pleased to announce that collection for the 2026 Census of Population has begun in select communities in northern and remote areas of the country.

The Catholic population in Canada has declined by almost 2 million people in the last 10 years, the Canadian census has found in a report that indicates the religiously unaffiliated now outnumber ...

Renters are increasingly likely to occupy newer homes in Canada, suggesting investors may be displacing owner-occupiers as the country looks to build its way out of an affordability crisis, census ...

A Directors Guild of Canada census revealed just 18.3 percent of members self-identified as Black, indigenous or people of color, far lower than their overall share of the Canadian population. By Etan ...

Select Northern regions of the NWT are at a higher risk of census under-counting, says a Statistics Canada census expert. Having already begun their data collection in some Northern communities, ...

Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to 41.58 million people, according to the latest population estimates, and the average age was 41.7. At the time of the last census, just over half were women ...