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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 13h

Among Canadians aged 15–19, girls were treated for mood or anxiety disorders 2.2× as often as boys in 2023–24: 14.8% vs 6.7%. The gap varies sharply by age. inspurious.com/story/72e742... #Canada #Health

A chart compares the share of Canadian women and girls versus men and boys treated for a mood or anxiety disorder by age in 2023–24; the largest gap is ages 15–19, at 14.8% versus 6.7%.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the 12 months to June 2026, Canada ran an $86b surplus with the United States and a $96b deficit with the rest of the world. The two nearly cancel, leaving an overall goods deficit of $10b. inspurious.com/story/0be0d9... #trade #Canada

Line chart of Canada's 12-month rolling goods trade balance since 1997, showing a consistent surplus with the United States (now $86b) and a steadily widening deficit with the rest of the world (now -$96b).

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Halifax Stanfield tourist arrivals have been climbing in recent years and are now well above what they were before COVID-19

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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

Dumbbell chart of the share of men and women reporting unmet health care needs in each province in 2024, with women higher in all ten and Nova Scotia widest at 14.4% for women versus 10.2% for men.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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

Chart of Canada's 2024 suicide rate per 100,000 people by age group and sex, showing the male rate peaking at 21.5 at ages 55–64 against 5.6 for women the same age, with men above women in every age band.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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

Line chart of the share of Halifax's population at each age, comparing 2001 (dashed grey) with 2025 (blue); the 2001 line has a single peak near age 40, while the 2025 line peaks in the late 20s and again around age 60.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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

Line chart of Windsor's monthly unemployment rate vs. Canada and the CMA median from 2006-2024, showing Windsor swinging from a 2009 peak of 15.7% down to a 2016 low of 4.8% and back up to 9.1% by 2024.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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

Bar chart ranking 106 Canadian grocery items by price change from 2017 to 2025, with beef top sirloin up 81%, the largest increase, against a 37% average.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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

Line chart of study permit holders in Canada, Ontario, and British Columbia from July 2021 to January 2026, showing all three peaking in January 2024 then declining — Canada down 37%, Ontario down 50%.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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

Line chart showing BC's five fastest-declining causes of death from 2000-2024: heart disease fell from 246 to 123 deaths per 100,000, cancer from 253 to 189, stroke from 80 to 36, chronic lung disease from 44 to 28, and flu/pneumonia from 44 to 14.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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

Bar chart of 2025 Canadian federal election turnout by age group, ranging from 55% for ages 18-24 up to 77% for ages 65-74, with 67% turnout overall.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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

Bar chart of Quebec's quarterly net interprovincial migration from 1961 to 2025, almost entirely negative, with the deepest loss exceeding 20,000 people in a single quarter in the late 1970s.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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

Line chart of annual population growth 2002–2025 for Saskatoon, the median Canadian city, and Canada — Saskatoon spikes to 5% in 2023 versus about 1% for the others, and never dips below zero.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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

Line chart showing student enrolment outside Quebec from 1998–2024: core French fell from 1.63m to 1.30m, while French immersion rose from 0.26m to 0.48m.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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

Line chart of fishing, hunting and trapping employment in Atlantic provinces, 1987–2025, showing Newfoundland & Labrador falling from ~13,000 to 3,100 while Nova Scotia partly recovers.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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

Bar chart showing the share of hip and knee replacement surgeries completed within six months by province, 2024–2025, ranging from 36% in Newfoundland and Labrador/PEI to 80% in Ontario, with the Canada-wide figure at 64%.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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

Line chart showing annual road deaths in Canada from 1999-2020: vehicle occupant deaths falling steeply from ~2,000 to ~1,000, while vulnerable road user deaths (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists) stay roughly flat around 500-600.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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

Line chart showing the share of the population aged 0-14 falling from 18.9% to 15.0% nationally between 2001 and 2025, with faint lines for all 41 Canadian metro areas and bold lines for the Canada and CMA-median trends, all sloping downward.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

Line chart showing Canada's total fertility rate declining from 1.72 in 1991 to a record-low 1.25 children per woman in 2024, with all provinces tracking below the 2.1 replacement level.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

Line chart showing zero-emission vehicles as a share of Canada's new vehicle registrations rising from 0.8% in Q1 2017 to a peak of 18.3% in Q4 2024, then falling to 11.2% by Q4 2025.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

Line chart of median hourly wages for Alberta health workers, 2001–2026, showing the unadjusted wage climbing to $35.91 while the inflation-adjusted wage (in constant January 2001 dollars) rises only to $19.45, up from $18.24 in 2001.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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

Horizontal bar chart showing the percent of deaths caused by cancer by age group in Canada in 2024, peaking at 38.8% for ages 65–74 and falling to 15.8% for ages 85+.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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

Line chart of the monthly retail price of a 900g tin of infant formula in Canada, rising from $28.39 in 2019 to $49.77 in 2026.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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

Line chart showing Victoria's share of population aged 0–14 falling from ~15% in 2001 to 11.7% in 2025, well below the Canada average and CMA median lines.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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

Line chart showing Saskatoon's share of population aged 0–14 from 2001 to 2025, sitting above the Canada average and CMA median throughout, ending at 17.6% in 2025.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

Line chart showing Ontario health worker median hourly wages from 2001 to 2026, unadjusted ($19.26 → $37.17) vs. inflation-adjusted ($19.49 → $21.63), a real gain of 11%.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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

Horizontal bar chart showing the 25th–75th percentile income range for 40 Canadian cities; Calgary is highlighted in orange at $22k–$91k.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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

Line chart showing Victoria's apartment vacancy rate (3-year rolling average) since 2000, at 2.5% in 2025 — below the 3% balanced market line, alongside Vancouver (2.1%) and the all-CMAs average (2.4%).

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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

Line chart showing Ontario school enrolment share from 2006–2023: public schools fell from 94.7% to 92%, private rose from 5.1% to 7.4%, homeschooling grew from 0.2% to 0.6%.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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

Line chart of total fertility rates for all provinces, 1991–2024, highlighting British Columbia falling to 1.02 children per woman in 2024 — the lowest in Canada — versus 1.25 nationally.

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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

Share who vaped in the past month, Canada

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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

Average herd size climbed from a dozen pigs to nearly two thousand

Average number of pigs per Canadian farm, 1951-2021

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Egg prices crack the top 20 products with the largest price increases since 2019, of 106 products tracked by StatsCan inspurious.com/story/cdc960... #Canada #Inflation #FoodPrices #CostOfLiving #Eggs #DataViz

Egg prices climbed sharply after 2019

Retail price of a dozen eggs, 12-month rolling average

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Since late 2022, Ontario has posted a total net loss of >85k residents to other provinces inspurious.com/story/31b3a3... #Ontario #Canada #DataViz #Population

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Life expectancy decreased in every province during COVID-19. #Quebec and #NovaScotia had the smallest declines. inspurious.com/story/09df21... #LifeExpectancy #PublicHealth #HealthData #DataViz

Life expectancy at birth by province, 2019 vs 2023

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The chart below tracks average monthly apartment rents in Winnipeg since 1992. 👇 Compare to other cities: inspurious.com/story/fd8fdf... #Winnipeg #Manitoba #Rent #CostOfLiving

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Violent crime in Victoria BC is down across all categories over the past ~25 years inspurious.com/story/7a3416... #VictoriaBC #yyj #PublicSafety #CrimeStats

Violent crime in Victoria

Incidents per 100,000 people, 1998–2000 average vs 2022–2024 average

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In 1971, women made up 8% of all doctors in Manitoba. By 2024, that figure has grown to 40%. View the data for any province: inspurious.com/story/0b7cae... #Manitoba #Healthcare #WomenInMedicine #DataViz

Female physicians as share of total in Manitoba

Percentage of physicians who are female, 1971–2024

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Quebec's top 10 causes of death from 2000: how have they changed? inspurious.com/story/2952ec... #Quebec #PublicHealth #MortalityData

Age-standardized mortality rate in Quebec

Deaths per 100,000 in 2000 vs. 2024 for the top 10 causes of death as of 2000

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Canada's leading causes of infant death: 2000 vs. 2024 The most dramatic shift: sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) fell from 37 deaths per 100k live births in 2000 to 4.4 in 2024. By contrast, deaths linked to maternal complications rose 60% over the same period. #Canada #HealthData #DataViz

Infant mortality rates in Canada

Deaths per 100,000 live births, 2000 vs. 2024

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Montreal housing starts by type since 2000 inspurious.com/story/19143d... #Montreal #Housing

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Have Ontario teacher salaries been keeping up with inflation? inspurious.com/story/b41ad8... #Ontario #Education #Inflation #Wages #DataViz

Teacher wages in Ontario

Median hourly wage, current dollars vs inflation-adjusted, 12-month rolling average

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Inspurious @inspurious.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

British Columbia leads all provinces in opioid deaths per capita (2016-2024) inspurious.com/story/873f2d... #bcpoli #OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth #HarmReduction

Average yearly opioid deaths per 100,000 people, by province (2016-2024)

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