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October 2026

Trends in physical activity among Canadian adults from 2007 to 2024
by Rachel C. Colley, Joel Barnes, Isabelle Michaud, Aidan Gribbon and Janine Clarke

Given that the health benefits of physical activity are well established, ongoing surveillance is important to monitor population activity levels, evaluate public health initiatives, and advance understanding of how movement relates to health. This study used seven cycles of the Canadian Health Measures Survey to examine temporal trends in accelerometer-measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and step counts among Canadian adults from 2007 to 2024 and to assess adherence to a range of activity benchmarks, including levels below current recommendations.

Decomposing the decline in life expectancy at birth by cause of death during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
by Ashraf Sirag, Mohan Kumar, and Owen Phillips

Life expectancy at birth has increased in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries and across the globe over the past few decades, until 2019. However, this trend was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw a significant decrease in life expectancy in Canada and many other countries. This study used death counts from the Canadian Vital Statistics – Death database to decompose the life expectancy gap by cause of death in Canada between the periods of 2017 to 2019 and 2020 to 2022, by province and sex.

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