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Statistics Canada said Friday that the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector made up the largest share of Canada's carbon pollution, at 22.5 per cent in 2016.

A surge in exports of energy, aircraft and pharmaceutical products helped propel Canada's economy higher in the second quarter of this year, Statistics Canada said on Thursday, August 30, 2018.

Canada’s diplomatic corps has teamed up with the government's top statisticians to rapidly deploy facts across the border that can counter Trump's false statements. The partnership between data geeks and diplomats was hatched by the federal Foreign Affairs Department along with the federal government's statistical agency, according to an internal briefing note obtained by National Observer.

The federal government is taking a somewhat noxious approach to studying just how much pot Canadians are consuming: researching our sewage.

New estimates from Statistics Canada suggest that those who go green with their choice of employment are poised to make some serious green in return.

Police-reported hate crimes in Canada spiked in 2016 for the third year in a row, and became much more violent, according to new data from Canada's national statistical agency.

A Toronto woman who organized a daytime wine festival for new mothers has found herself caught in a firestorm over the pervasiveness of alcohol at a time when heavy drinking is on the rise among women

"Many factors have contributed to this advance, led by the increased labour force participation of women," Statistics Canada said in a brief on the new data.

A major effort is underway to collect the most detailed data yet on the state of the country's roads, bridges, water pipes and transit systems.

Statistics Canada has officially set the record straight on a computing error that led it to publish false information on the decline of native French speakers in Quebec last year.

About a year after Yi Jiang and her family moved to Ottawa from China, they found themselves sharing a two−bedroom apartment with her parents.

The number of cannabis-related offences reported to police declined for the fifth straight year, Statistics Canada said as it released its annual report on police-reported crime.

A Thunder Bay MP says she's not surprised by "appalling" new numbers that suggest the Ontario city has the highest rate of metropolitan hate crime in Canada.

An increase in incidents targeting the Muslim population drove a five per cent rise in hate crimes in 2015, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.

Labour Minister Patty Hajdu says she is taking a sweeping look at the country's youth employment strategy to better target help to those who need it most.