Statistics Canada posted the quarterly financial statistics for enterprises, third quarter 2017. Canadian corporations earned $100.5 billion in operating profits in the third quarter, up $7.9 billion or 8.5 per cent from the second quarter. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada released data on farm income, 2016 (revised data). Realized net farm income totalled $8.4 billion … Read more
Statistics Canada posted data on retail trade, September 2017. Retail sales edged up 0.1 per cent to $49.1 billion in September. Higher sales at gasoline stations, particularly due to higher prices, were the main contributor to the gain. Excluding sales in this subsector, retail sales declined 0.2 per cent. The full release is available online. Statistics … Read more
Statistics Canada posted the Consolidated Canadian Government Finance Statistics, 2016. The deficit of the Canadian General Government—federal, provincial-territorial and local governments combined—in their consolidated net operating balance totalled $18.1 billion in 2016, following a $12.9 billion deficit in 2015. This increase was largely attributable to expenses (+2.6 per cent) outpacing revenues (+1.9 per cent). The full … Read more
Statistics Canada issued data for wholesale trade in the month of September 2017. Following two months of increases, wholesale sales declined 1.2 per cent to $62.0 billion in September, the second decline of 2017. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada posted an economic framework for cannabis. Statistics Canada is preparing Canada’s statistical system to capture the associated economic … Read more
Statistics Canada posted data on the activities of Canadian majority-owned affiliates abroad, 2015. Total employment of Canadian majority-owned foreign affiliates rose by 3.7 per cent in 2015 to 1.31 million on the strength of non-US employment. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada released data on the activities of foreign majority-owned affiliates in Canada, 2015. Foreign majority-owned … Read more
Statistics Canada published the Consumer Price Index, October 2017. The Consumer Price Index rose 1.4 per cent on a year-over-year basis in October, following a 1.6 per cent increase in September. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the Consumer Price Index was up 0.2 per cent in October, matching the increase in September. The full … Read more
Statistics Canada announced Canada’s international transactions in securities, September 2017. Foreign investment in Canadian securities totalled $16.8 billion in September, up from $9.8 billion in August. At the same time, Canadian investment in foreign securities slowed to $2.4 billion in September, after reaching $12.1 billion in August. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada released … Read more
Statistics Canada issued data on high-income trends among Canadian tax filers, 2015. The top 1 per cent of individual tax filers saw their share of total income rise by almost one percentage point from 2014 to 2015, the result of a sharp increase in the dividend income from Canadian corporations. This was the first increase … Read more
Statistics Canada published a new report on internet use, Life in the fast lane: How are Canadians managing? 2016. Just over 90 per cent of Canadians 15 years of age and older went online at least a few times a month in 2016, and it was not just young people checking out the Internet. Some 68 … Read more
Statistics Canada released the Biannual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing, first half 2017. Overall credit conditions remained essentially unchanged during the first half of 2017. The Bank of Canada maintained its policy interest rate at 0.50 per cent along with the prime rate, unchanged at 2.70 per cent. Corporations in Canada recorded a third … Read more
