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The Top 40 Cities For Business in Canada

Despite rising costs and the ascent of the loonie, our cities still have advantages. We rank the Top 40 cities to do business in our annual guide, and offer an in-depth look at 3 cities — Kitchener-Waterloo, Abbotsford and Vaughan — and Canada's decaying infrastructure.

The 40 cities we included in our survey of Canada's Best Places To Do Business include the country's 25 largest municipalities, according to the 2006 census, plus 15 smaller centres to provide regional representation. We ranked these places on 5 factors reflecting socio-economic health: operating cost, cost of living, building permit growth, unemployment rate and crime rate. Read our methodology for the details on each factor and how we weighted them.

How to use these tables

The tables can be sorted in ascending and descending order by clicking on the name of the column of interest. Clicking on a community name loads a profile page with all of our information about that community.

Sections of The Best Places to Do Business ranking can be emailed, printed out in a printer-friendly format, or downloaded into a spreadsheet.

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Overview: The best places to do business in Canada
Costs are still rising, but Canadian cities still have advantages.

Kitchener-Waterloo knows best
Southwestern Ontario's gem is weathering the manufacturing exodus.

Abbotsford: Boomtown B.C.
Can Abbotsford manage its growth?

Vaughan: Out of the field
Vaughan shines bright, especially next to Toronto's fading light.

Infrastructure: Crumble city
As infrastructures fall to pieces, government is waking up to the problem.

The Top 10
Our slideshow weighs the pros and cons of the best cities as it counts them down.

Methodology
How we did it: city selection, socio-economic factors and weightings explained.