Canadian and American Ancestry?

In 1992, when my family moved (temporarily, as we told our families) from Toronto to Los Angeles, one of our early discoveries was that upon hearing the words ‘out’ or ‘about’, many of our neighbors immediately claimed some level of Canadian heritage. This shouldn’t...

Canada Demographic Overview 2025

The population of Canada has for decades growth at a relatively stable pace of about 1% per year. From 1971 to 2021, the population increased from 21.6 to 36.9 million people, averaging around 1% growth per year. Since the 2021 census, however, the population has...

Border Curiosities

This being summertime, we thought we would spare you a discussion about optimal kernel size selection for multiscale geographically weighted regression, no matter how cool the AGS geek squad thinks that may be. In its stead, we offer some lighthearted spatial...

BusinessCounts Canada and POI Data Now Available

We are excited to announce the release of a new databases for Canada, BusinessCounts and Point of Interest (POI) data. These new databases will nicely compliment the other Canadian data that we currently carry. For more information on these new databases, keep...

The Public Transit City

Toronto has long been hailed as a great example of a public transit system that works. For many years, the downtown core was where all the job action was – the banking and insurance towers, the countless government buildings known as Queen’s Park, the University of...

Dimensions Canada

Toronto is generally considered to be one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, even more so than New York or Los Angeles. Of the nearly 7 million residents, almost 45% are immigrants who have arrived from many nations across the world. Hidden below that...