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Calgary's downtown office vacancy rate sits near historic highs. Nearly three in ten Class A office suites stand empty. From the outside, this looks like a...
Calgary's energy sector is not shrinking. It is dividing. On one side, traditional upstream administration and legacy oilfield services roles are...
Calgary's technology sector now employs approximately 59,800 workers across 2,400 companies. On paper, the ecosystem looks healthy: 6.2% year-over-year growth...
Edmonton holds more shovel-ready industrial land than almost any logistics market in North America. Over 5,000 acres sit serviced and available across the...
Edmonton's oilfield services sector spent the last two years doing more with less. Capital discipline held upstream investment flat. Drilling counts...
Alberta's Industrial Heartland represents $40 billion in installed capital assets and processes roughly 35% of Canada's total refining capacity. Air Products'...
Gatineau is Quebec's fastest-growing census metropolitan area. Its population increased by 2.1% in 2023 to 2024, adding roughly 10,500 residents annually. Most...
Quebec produces roughly 9,000 computer science and engineering graduates every year. Gatineau's federal IT employers cannot fill 1,400 active openings. The...
Casino du Lac-Leamy is generating within 4% of its pre-pandemic revenue peak. The Canadian Museum of History welcomed 1.18 million visitors in 2024. Gatineau...
Nova Scotia's seafood export industry generated $2.8 billion CAD in 2023. Lobster and snow crab accounted for 62% of that volume, flowing through Halifax's...
Halifax Shipyard is preparing to cut steel on the most complex warship Canada has ever built. The Canadian Surface Combatant programme, with a baseline cost...
Halifax's tech sector now accounts for 8.2% of the city's total employment. Five years ago, that figure was 7.1%. The trajectory looks like a success story....
Laval's advanced manufacturing sector occupies one of the most strategically enviable positions in North American aerospace. Sitting 15 minutes from...
Laval's ICT sector now accounts for roughly $1.8 billion in local GDP and employs approximately 14,200 workers across 850 establishments. By most measures, it...
Laval added 1.4 million square feet of logistics space in its highway corridor through 2025 and into 2026. The industrial vacancy rate along the A-440 and A-15...
Between 2025 and 2026, aerospace manufacturers and MRO operators in the Longueuil and Saint-Hubert corridor committed an estimated $45 to $60 million in...
Longueuil's logistics sector entered 2026 in a condition that would puzzle anyone reading the headlines alone. The Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel, the...
Longueuil's advanced manufacturing sector sits at the centre of North America's aerospace supply chain. The city's Saint-Hubert borough and surrounding...
Montreal's aerospace cluster entered 2026 with an apparent contradiction at its centre. Airbus Canada and Bombardier announced combined hiring targets...
Montreal's interactive entertainment and digital media sector shed over 2,800 positions between early 2023 and mid-2024. Ubisoft Montreal cut more than 150...
Montreal's technology sector employs 134,000 workers, commands some of the lowest office costs in North America, and sits next to one of the continent's most...
Ottawa's defence and cybersecurity sector entered 2026 with more funded work than at any point in a generation. The federal government's Our North, Strong and...
Ottawa's optical networking workforce lost between 8% and 12% of its headcount through 2024. In the same period, senior engineering vacancies in coherent...
Ottawa's tech unemployment rate sat at 2.1% in the third quarter of 2024. That figure alone would suggest one of the tightest labour markets in Canadian...
Quebec City's interactive entertainment sector cut between 10% and 15% of its combined anchor studio workforce across 2024 and early 2025. The headlines...
Quebec City's tourism sector generated roughly $165 million CAD in direct and indirect economic impact from cruise operations alone last year. Hotel occupancy...
Quebec City's two largest insurers eliminated 450 administrative positions over a two-year integration cycle. The headlines told a story of contraction. The...
Saguenay's aluminum cluster sits at the centre of one of the sharpest workforce contradictions in Canadian heavy industry. The region reports unemployment...
Saguenay's engineered wood product facilities are running at 85 to 90 per cent capacity. Cross-laminated timber and glulam operations are scaling to meet...
The Port of Saguenay handled 3.48 million tonnes of cargo in 2024, opened its 2025 navigation season eleven days later than the historical average, and entered...
Sherbrooke's agri-food sector entered 2026 with $47 million in recent capital expenditure, a $3.2 million craft brewery expansion completed, and an additional...
Sherbrooke's advanced manufacturing sector spent CAD $48 million on automation equipment in 2024. A 22% increase over the prior year. Yet regional productivity...
Université de Sherbrooke and the CHUS research hospital generated 142 new patents in 2023 and 2024. That placed Sherbrooke third in Québec for academic...
Toronto produces more foundational AI research per capita than nearly any city on earth. Only San Francisco and Beijing generate a higher density of AI...
Toronto's financial services sector employs roughly 251,000 professionals and contributes CAD $65 billion annually to the regional economy. Those headline...
Toronto's major film stages reported utilisation rates above 94% through the second half of 2024. Pinewood Toronto hit 98% in Q3. Netflix expanded its lease at...
Metal fabrication employers in Trois-Rivières increased capital expenditure on robotic welding and CNC automation by 18% annually through 2024, according to...
Trois-Rivières handled 3.8 million tonnes of cargo through its St. Lawrence terminals in 2023, a 12% increase over the prior year. G3 Canada's grain terminal...
Trois-Rivières has spent more than half a billion Canadian dollars modernising its pulp and paper operations since 2018. Kruger Inc. converted its flagship...
Metro Vancouver's housing starts fell roughly 20% between 2021 and 2024. Construction employment across the region dropped 8.3% in a single year. The headlines...
Metro Vancouver employs roughly 95,000 technology workers across software development, cloud infrastructure, and interactive entertainment. From the outside,...
The same city that laid off more than 100 animation staff in a single week last October cannot fill a VFX Supervisor role in under four months. Vancouver's...
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