Toronto: Although Canada’s annual inflation rate dropped slightly in September to 6.9 percent, the cost of groceries continues to soar, Statistics Canada reports. The price of grocery prices rose at the …
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Bank of Canada. Image credit: WikimediaCommons Toronto: According to the expectations of the Economists there would be another aggressive interest rate hike by the Bank of Canada next week after …
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Statistics Canada said that real gross domestic product grew 0.3 percent in Apri mainly led by the mining, quarrying, oil, and gas extraction sector and client-facing industries. Although the official …
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Ottawa/CMEDIA: Canada’s addition of 40,000 jobs in May driven by a gain in full-time jobs was due to continuing tightening of the labor market and an increase in the wages, said …
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Ottawa/CMEDIA: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census of Population included for the first time a question on gender at birth, allowing all cisgender, transgender, and non-binary individuals to report their gender. Canada is …
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Ottawa/CMEDIA: The addition of 72,500 jobs in March, Canada’s unemployment rate fell from 5.5 percent to 5.3 percent, its lowest rate on record comparable to data going back to …
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Toronto/CMEDIA: The Canadian economical growth at an annual rate of 6.7 percent in the fourth quarter was faster than the Bank of Canada anticipated which ensured an interest-rate hike when …
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#Canada; #StatisticsCanada; #CanadaPopulationGrowth; #Covid19Pandemic; #CanadaImmigrants Ottawa/CMEDIA: Canada’s population growth rate of about 37 million last year, almost twice the pace of every other G7 country from 2016 to 2021, with …
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#StatisticsCanada; #CanadaJobsReport; #OmicronImpact Ottawa/CMEDIA: Canada’s employment in January fell by 200,000 (-1.0%) and the unemployment rate rose 0.5 percentage points to 6.5%, the first increase since April 2021 January employment declines were driven mainly by Ontario …
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#StatisticsCanada; #CanadaLifeExpectancy; #COVID19 An average seven-month decline in national life expectancy in 2020 was contributed by the COVID-19 pandemic the largest decrease recorded since 1921 when the vital statistics registration …
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