Daily average time and proportion of day spent on various activities, by age group and gender, 15 years and over, Canada, Geographical region of Canada, province or territory, 2022.

This table contains restriction indexes for the provinces and territories. The indexes begin in January 2020 and continue to the most recent reference period. The indexes are not seasonally adjusted. A difference is reported for restrictions on vaccinated and unvaccinated persons once a difference is present.

Potable water use by sector and average daily use for Canada, provinces and territories.

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Daily average foreign exchange rates in Canadian dollars, Bank of Canada

This table contains 39 series, with data for starting from 1991 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Financial market statistics (39 items: Government of Canada Treasury Bills, 1-month (composite rates); Government of Canada Treasury Bills, 2-month (composite rates); Government of Canada Treasury Bills, 3-month (composite rates);Government of Canada Treasury Bills, 6-month (composite rates); ...).

According to a survey held in June 2023, 32 percent of Canadians headed to a Canadian news website first when they accessed news each day, whereas just seven percent sought news via Apple News as their go-to option. Facebook and Google were both popular, whereas Twitter (now X) was the least visited major social network for news on an average day.

Daily average time in hours and proportion of day spent on various activities by age group and sex, 15 years and over, Canada and provinces.

This table contains 44 series, with data for years 1950 - 2017 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Type of currency (44 items: United States dollar, noon spot rate; United States dollar, 90-day forward noon rate; Belgian franc, noon spot rate; Danish krone, noon spot rate; ...).

General social survey (GSS), average time spent on various activities for the population aged 15 years and over, by sex and main activity.

In 2020, Francophone internet users in Canada spent an average of 3.06 hours per day online via PC, laptop or tablet devices. Daily online usage of Anglophone internet users was 3.92 hours per day. Overall, daily non-mobile internet usage had declined 0.3 and 6.5 percent for Francophones and Anglophones respectively. In contrast, mobile usage in Canada had increased significantly during the same period.

A summer 2023 survey revealed that most common method of getting online news among Canadian adults was accessing specific stories through a news aggregator like Google News, with 22 percent saying they did so every day. Podcasts and newsletters were the least likely way Canadians accessed online news on a daily basis, whereas clicking links found on social media was a popular choice.

A study published in spring 2023 found that Victoria has the highest weekly readership of daily newspapers in Canada, as 78 percent of respondents from Victoria stated to have read a newspaper in the week prior to the survey. Quebec City and London followed in second position with a reach of 73 percent respectively. Ottawa, Vancouver, and Toronto closed the list, although still scoring a readership of around two in three respondents.

This statistic shows the daily internet usage rate of online users in Canada in 2016, sorted by age group. During the survey period, it was found that 96 percent of internet users between the ages of 25 and 34 were accessing the internet every day.

According to a Juny 2019 survey of adults in Canada, 25 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 years spent between one and two hours on social media per day on average. Overall, a fifth of responding adults stated that they did not use social media at all.

As of the third quarter of 2024, Canadians spent an average of one hour and 46 minutes per day on social media and more than six hours per day using the internet in general. TV consumption was also high at three hours and 30 minutes, while Canadians devoted less time to music streaming or gaming activities. Internet usage trends in Canada Canada’s online population has steadily increased over the past two decades. In 2024, the number of internet users in Canada surpassed a record 36.7 million, which translates to approximately 96.5 percent of the Canadian population using the internet for information, communication, and entertainment. Given that most traditional media formats can now be accessed online, Canadians have gradually shifted from TV, radio, and magazine consumption towards digital channels. That said, some forms of analog media and entertainment experienced a surge in demand following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. What are the leading social media platforms in Canada? Social media has become one of the most popular online activities among Canadian internet users. In 2024, Canada’s social network user penetration stood at 94 percent, and according to the latest forecasts, this figure will surpass 98 percent by 2028. This rapid increase in social media usage is spearheaded by rising mobile adoption and the ever-increasing selection of digital platforms that Canadians can use to upload photos, send direct messages, or simply pass the time. Facebook was the leading mobile social media website in Canada as of 2024, outpacing Pinterest and Instagram by a large margin of visits.

Michel Séguin describes the events preceding and following a Daily release that reported a drop in real GDP. In particular, he looks at how the media reported this negative economic news.

General social survey (GSS), average time spent at various locations for the population aged 15 years and over, by population cohorts.

The statistic presents information on the daily reach of media in Canada from September 2017 to May 2018. According to the source, TV reached 81 percent of the Canadian population on a daily basis. Radio's penetration rate was 75 percent.

This table contains 9 series, with data for years 1999 - 2007 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2008-10-08. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Positions of members of the Canadian Payments Associations and buy back transactions with primary dealers (9 items: Positions of members of the Canadian Payments Association with the Bank of Canada; overdraft loans; total; Positions of members of the Canadian Payments Association with the Bank of Canada; positive balances; total; Positions of members of the Canadian Payments Association with the Bank of Canada; positive balances of which: automated clearing settlement system; Positions of members of the Canadian Payments Association with the Bank of Canada; overdraft loans of which: automated clearing settlement system ...).