Statistics Canada

Most consumers and businesses expect recession; views on inflation diverge: BoC

Consumers have become more pessimistic about inflation in the short run, while business expectations for inflation have eased.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s jobless rate ticks up to 4.1% in September as labour force grows

Ottawa

Region is still outperforming most major Canadian cities, with Toronto (six per cent), Calgary (5.2), Montreal (4.9), Edmonton (4.8) and Vancouver (4.5) all posting higher

Foot traffic steadily rising in Ottawa and other Canadian cities, new data shows

Ottawa

New data shows foot traffic in the nation’s capital is up 105 per cent as of the week of Sept. 19, making it the best-performing

Canadian economy grew slightly in July, Statistics Canada says

Canada & World

Statistics Canada said Thursday that the economy grew by 0.1 per cent in July, outperforming its preliminary estimate that pointed to a contraction of 0.1

Labour shortage, pandemic savings to soften blow of short-lived recession: report

Canada & World

Tight job market means unemployment might not rise as much as it typically would during a recession, Deloitte says in its latest Canadian economic outlook.

July travel on an upward trend, but is still a fraction of pre-pandemic levels

Canada & World

The agency says the number of trips by U.S. residents in July was 2.2 million, 11 times the number of trips taken in July 2021

Canadian employers sought to fill nearly one million jobs in Q2

Canada & World, Human Resources

Statistics Canada says employers were actively seeking to fill 997,000 jobs in the second quarter, the highest quarterly number on record.

Canada’s inflation rate cools in August but grocery prices continue to climb

Canada & World

In its latest monthly consumer price index (CPI) report, Statistics Canada said grocery prices rose at the fastest rate since 1981, with prices up 10.8

Ottawa’s unemployment rate falls to 3.4% in August, bucking national trend

Canada & World

It marks the capital’s lowest unemployment rate since at least March 2001 – the earliest date for which statistics are available.

Full steam ahead for downtown Ottawa task force

Ottawa

One month in, the Downtown Ottawa Revitalization Task Force is diving headfirst into its three-month plan for bringing life back to the downtown core.