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May 15, 2026
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Canadian e-commerce growth slowed in 2025 as the rest of the world surged ahead
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Canadian e-commerce growth slowed in 2025 as the rest of the world surged ahead
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The retail e-commerce industry in Canada, like the rest of the world, went gangbusters during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian e-commerce annual revenue jumped 75 percent in 2020, from $22.5 billion CAD in 2019 to $39.3 billion. Since 2017, every year e-commerce in Canada has seen a double-digit growth rate other than in 2022, when the industry slightly cooled as social-distancing requirements were lifted, and 2023 (still 6.3 percent growth).
Then 2025 happened.
Canad…
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