Canada's Population is Moving: Alberta VS Ontario
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Canada just did something it's never done before: its population shrank. Buried inside that headline is a bigger story. One province is booming while the two largest are losing residents fast. Here's what that means for housing, market by market.
The National Number Doesn't Tell You Much
Canada's population fell 0.25% in Q1 2026, that's 103,500 people, following the country's first-ever annual decline in 2025 (Statistics Canada). Easy to read that as "the whole country is slowing down." Not quite right, though. That national figure is an average of some very different local realities, and it's the local realities that actually move housing markets, benchmark prices, active listing counts, and days on market. This is the first post in a series…
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