Two young women wearing face masks sit indoors. Bold pink text reads: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Millennial and GenZ Canadians, highlighting how these generations have navigated the challenges of recent years.

Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Millennial and GenZ Canadians

This report examines how Millennial and GenZ Canadians have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. It finds that a majority of Canada’s younger generations (those between the ages of 18 and 40) say that the COVD-19 pandemic has had either a major or at least a moderate impact on their lives.

People stand and sit along a stone railing, overlooking a city skyline at dusk. The illuminated buildings and vibrant crowd reflect the rich Quebec identity, culture, and language shaped by Canadian sovereignty.

Thanks to Quebec millennials, another referendum isn’t looming

Some observers say Canada has never been more divided than it is today. They’re wrong. Oct. 30 marks the 25th anniversary of Quebec’s second referendum on sovereignty.

The flag of Quebec, featuring a white cross and four white fleurs-de-lis on blue, flies on a flagpole against a clear sky—a proud symbol of Canadian sovereignty in Quebec identity, culture, and language.

Millennial and Gen Z francophones don’t value Quebec nationalism

The year 2020 will forever be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remains significant in other ways. Among other things, it marks 40th and 25th anniversaries of Quebec’s two referendums on sovereignty.

Four ladders, three white and one red, rise toward a blue sky with clouds, symbolizing ambition and opportunity—an apt visual metaphor for intergenerational mobility in Canada.

Intergenerational Mobility in Canada

A succession of economic downturns over the last decades has led many to express concerns that the next generation of Canadians will be less, and not more, well-off than the ones that preceded it.

A large stone inukshuk stands on snowy ground at night, with vibrant green northern lights swirling in the dark sky above, symbolizing that youth see hope for reconciliation but it will take work.

Youth see hope for reconciliation but it will take work

There have been many expressions of goodwill toward reconciliation since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action in 2015.

Canadian Youth Reconciliation Barometer 2019 Final Report cover featuring a stylized hand and vibrant abstract lines. Below are the logos for Environics Institute, Canadian Roots Exchange, and Mastercard Foundation.

Canadian Youth Reconciliation Barometer 2019

Canada’s relationship with the Indigenous Peoples who first inhabited this land continues to be largely unresolved and fraught with controversy.

A graphic titled Canadian Millennial Social Values Study features six illustrated portraits in colored squares, alongside the logos of The Environics Institute, The Counselling Foundation of Canada, RBC, Apathy is Boring, and The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.

Canadian Millennial Social Values Study

A major national survey conducted in 2016 reveals a bold portrait of Canada’s Millennials (those born between 1980 and 1995), that for the first time presents the social values of this generation, and the distinct segments that help make sense of the different and often contradictory stereotypes that so frequently are applied to today’s young adults.

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