Canadians More Web-Connected, but at Possible Cost to Work-Life Balance, StatsCan Says
Canadians are leading more and more digitally connected lives, and that's having both positive and negative implications on our well-being, a new Statistics Canada survey suggests. The data agency said in a report Tuesday that more and more Canadians are accessing the internet on a regular basis, with 91 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 using the internet at least a couple of times every month last year. That's up from 86 per cent three years earlier 2013, and the prevalence of the internet in people's lives gets higher depending on how young you are. The percentage for those between the ages of 15 to 44 was over 90 per cent last year, but it was similarly high in 2013 too. Among 65- to 74-year-olds, however, internet penetration has shot up in the past three years, from 65 per cent to 81. For those over 75, usage jumped from 35 per cent to 50 per cent. People offered many ways in which technology has improved their lives, with...