250,000 Canadians Worked in Ride-Sharing and Delivery Sector Using Apps Last Year

This illustration picture shows delivery applications logos from Amazon, Uber Eats, Instacart and Doordash displayed on a smartphone on April 10, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images

The gig and digital economy has expanded in recent years, with the rapid growth of services such as food delivery, but just how many Canadians depend on it to put bread on their own table or to make ends meet at the end of the month?

Statistics Canada released a new set of data pertaining to the topic of digital platform employment in its Labour Force Survey released on Jan. 6.