Statistics Canada: Census Data

Canada Dept: We ll know more on Wednesday, when Statistics Canada releases the 2011 census data on families, according to Globe and Mail. Previous census data have already shown that the number of married parents with children is in relative decline, common-law relationships are on the increase, single-parent families are ever more common and that couples increasingly include same-sex as well as opposite-sex relationships and canada s aging population Statscan has measured such exotic creations as skip-generation families, complex step families and other alternatives to the traditional, or what you might now call archaic family as Janice Keefe of Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax puts it that make up the social fabric of contemporary Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.