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.
Another example of sometimes you need to understand what is being measured before you attempt to interpret the data coming from our friends at Stats Canada. Employment increased by 36,000 in August. At the same… Read More »Employment and Unemployment up in August
On Friday Stats Canada published the monthly Consumer Price Index Numbers and not surprisingly our beloved friend the HST lent a hand and caused a more severe price jump than expected. On July 1, 2010,… Read More »CPI Up: Thanks to HST Bigger Bump
Slight Skip Up for Unemployment On Friday August 6th Stats Canada published their Labour Force Survery for July 2010 and the numbers are similar to previous months with a few small changes here and there.… Read More »Unemployment Edges Up a Little
With all the excitement on Friday, you may not have noticed by the Inflation Rate (i.e. CPI) from Stats Canada was announced and it is back down to 1.0%, which suggests any retaliatory Interest Rate… Read More »CPI Back to 1.0%
The June employment numbers came out on Friday and there was some very good news in those numbers (and more likely than not because of them, another Interest Rate Hike coming very soon as well).… Read More »Employment Numbers Jump for June
