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Research on how Canadian ecommerce ships, with every number sourced.

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How a brief is built

The Institute publishes short data briefs on the Canadian ecommerce and logistics market. Each one is built on a public dataset that is named, linked and handed back as a file, so a figure can be checked before it is quoted.

One public source per number
Every figure traces to a named table and vector, with the release and access dates. A revision at the source changes the sentence.
The data ships with the brief
The dataset behind each report is downloadable as CSV from the page, so the sums can be re-run.
Nothing of our own in the numbers
A brief describes the market, not Ecom. Our operating facts stay on the service pages, where they are verified separately.

Briefs

Data brief

The online share of Canadian retail, December 2023 to June 2026

Thirty-one months of Statistics Canada retail data, read for one question: how much of what Canadians buy from Canadian retailers is bought online, and how that moves through the year.

7.7% of Canadian retail trade was online in June 2026, seasonally adjusted

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Data brief

Which ecommerce jobs AI reaches first: Canadian evidence to 2026

An online order passes through nine kinds of job before it reaches a door. Statistics Canada now measures which of those jobs are exposed to AI, which workers use it, and whether the headcount has moved. This brief reads those numbers and stops where they stop.

76% of employees in the occupation group that holds shippers, receivers, dispatchers and schedulers are in the high-exposure, low-complementarity category (Statistics Canada, May 2021)

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Canadian ecommerce research for brands that ship

The ECom Institute publishes short, sourced studies on ecommerce in Canada: online retail sales, the ecommerce share of retail trade, the seasonal peak, and what each one means for fulfillment, warehousing and last-mile delivery. Read a brief before you size a market, plan peak season or compare a 3PL with shipping in-house.

  • Canadian ecommerce statistics in one place: online sales, share of retail and month-by-month movement, each with its Statistics Canada source and release date.
  • Written for logistics decisions. Each brief closes with how to use the numbers: where to hold inventory, how much peak-season capacity to book, which delivery coverage to buy.
  • Ready to cite. Every brief carries a citation line and a downloadable dataset, so a figure can go into a board deck, a business plan or an article with its source attached.

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Tell us what you are trying to size or decide. If a public series answers it, it becomes the next brief.

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