Stats Canada has a large amount of great reports not just about the Canadian economy but about Canadian consumers and they are well worth reading.
In June 2012, Canada’s Consumer Price Index rose 1.5% year-over-year, a modest increase led primarily by higher costs for electricity and passenger vehicles. Surprisingly, gasoline prices declined, while electricity surged 5.9% due to rate hikes… Read More »June 2012 CPI Update: Inflation Up, Electricity Surges in Canada
Friday our friends from Stats Canada published their monthly Labour Force Survey for June 2012, and their news is that not much has changed. The good news is that things don’t seem worse, but they… Read More »Not Much Change in Employment Numbers in June 2012 (in Canada)
Are civil servants over paid lazy lumps, or are they under appreciated, over worked serfs? As usual the answer is somewhere in the middle.
Friday Stats Canada put out some interesting numbers for their Consumer Price Index report for May (and the year ending in May). It was a big drop (well a drop in the rate of increase,… Read More »CPI Drops in May 2012 in Canada? WTH?!?
Our friends at Stats Canada published the Labour Force Survey for May 2012, which shows not much change in terms of Employment or Unemployment, so I guess the Canadian Economy took a break to catch… Read More »Employment for May About the Same?
