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The Bank of Canada held its key overnight rate steady at 5.25% in March 2026.

The Canadian dollar strengthened slightly against the Australian dollar in March 2026.

The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate steady at 2.5% in March 2026.

Canada's Fisher commodity price index rose 3.3% in March 2026, reaching 770.9.

The Fisher commodity price index in Canada rose to 640.5 in February 2026, up from the previous period.

Canada's industrial product price index for manufacturing rose to 138.2 in February 2026.

Canada's industrial product prices rose 0.4% in February 2026.

Canada's industrial product prices rose 0.4% in February 2026.

The price of finished motor gasoline in Atlantic Canada jumped 3.7% in February 2026.

Canada's retail sales hit $70.7 billion in January 2026, up from December 2025.

Canada's total retail sales fell to $61.0 billion in January 2026, down from the previous month.

Canada produced 278,000 metric tonnes of aluminum in January 2026, up from the previous month.

Canada produced 996,000 carats of diamonds in January 2026, down from the previous month.

Canada's raw materials price index increased 0.6% in February 2026.

The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York discount rate remains unavailable for March 2026.

Canada’s aluminum shipments hit $1.14 billion in January 2026, up from $1.07 billion last month.

Canada's opening inventories of crude oil and equivalents held by pipeline transporters reached 15.2 million cubic metres in January 2026.

Canada shipped 56.5 million barrels of crude oil and equivalents by pipeline in January 2026, a decrease from the previous month.

Canada's bank rate remains steady at 2.5% in March 2026.

The total funds advanced for residential mortgages in Canada decreased to $7.7 billion in January 2026.

Canada saw a 15.5% jump in weekly domestic aircraft movements in February 2026 compared to the previous week.

Canada's chartered banks held $4.1 billion in foreign currency assets at the end of January 2026, down from $4.6 billion in the previous quarter.

Canada's central bank assets fell to $219 billion in March 2026, down from $227 billion the prior week.

Data on absorptions of newly completed dwellings in Canadian census agglomerations remains unavailable for the latest period.

Absorptions of newly completed dwellings in Canadian metropolitan areas rose slightly to 2,572 units in February 2026.

Canada's conventional mortgage lending rate for a 5-year term fell slightly to 5.05% in February 2026.

Canada's housing starts rose to 239,000 units in February 2026, up from the previous month.

Canada's housing starts increased to 230,500 units in February 2026, up from the previous month.

Canada's average monthly housing starts rose to 256,000 in February 2026.

Canada's housing starts rose to 250.9 thousand units in February 2026.

Canada's rural housing starts fell to 17.0K in February 2026, down from the previous period.

Canada's rural housing starts increased to 20.4K in February 2026.

Canada's homeowner housing starts data for Q4 2025 remains unavailable as of the latest release.

Canada saw a drop in homeowner housing starts to 3,083 units in February 2026.

Canada saw housing starts dip to 14.7 thousand units in February 2026, down from the previous month.

Housing starts in Canada's largest cities fell to 1,131 units in February 2026, down from 1,461 units last month.

Housing starts in Canada's largest cities fell to 13.8K units in February 2026, down from the previous month.

Data on newly completed and unoccupied housing units in major Canadian cities remains unavailable for the latest period.

Canada's core inflation measure, CPI-common, slowed to 2.4% in February 2026.

Canada's consumer prices rose 0.5% in February 2026 compared to the previous month.

Canada's Consumer Price Index rose slightly to 166.4 in February 2026.

Canada lost 35,405 jobs in December 2025, bringing total employment to 18.2 million.

Canada lost 354,000 jobs in December 2025, the largest monthly decline in over a decade.

Statistics Canada has not released updated gasoline price data for the latest period.

Canada's new motor vehicle sales dropped nearly 10% in January 2026 compared to the previous month.

Canada's manufacturers' sales of goods dropped to $64.2 billion in January 2026, down from the previous month.

Canada's manufacturing capacity utilization rate fell to 75.3% in January 2026.

Newfoundland and Labrador's manufacturing sales jumped to $391.6 billion in January 2026, a sharp increase from the previous month.

Calgary's manufacturing sales fell to $1.33 billion in January 2026, down from $1.42 billion in December 2025.

Canada’s real manufacturing sales fell to $51.2 billion in January 2026, down from $53.3 billion in the previous quarter.

New motor vehicle registrations in Canada dropped 15.3% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year.

Canada's provisional weekly death counts fell to 3,957 in December 2025.

Canada's provisional weekly age-standardized mortality rate for December 2025 remains unchanged from the previous period.

Provisional weekly death counts for December 2025 remain unavailable as data has not been released.

Statistics Canada did not report provisional weekly death counts for the week ending December 2025.

Canada's wholesale sales dropped to $115.1 billion in January 2026.

Canada's wholesale trade inventories rose to $147.9 billion in January 2026.

Canada's wholesale trade sales fell to $106.2 billion in January 2026.

Canada's electric power selling price index rose 2.0% in January 2026.

Canada's chartered banks reported $2.11 trillion in outstanding mortgage loans at the end of October 2025, up from $2.10 trillion a year earlier.

The average price of beef stewing cuts in Canada dropped to $22.79 per kilogram in January 2026.

Canada's oil and gas extraction industries increased capital spending to $11.4 billion in 2025.

Canada's federal debt reached $1.29 trillion by the end of 2025, up from the previous quarter.

Canada's federal government swung to a $245 billion surplus in the fourth quarter of 2025, a massive improvement from the $80 billion deficit recorded in the previous quarter.

Canada’s supply of coal to coke plants rose to 222,000 tonnes in December 2025.

Canada produced 3.44 million tonnes of coal in December 2025, up from the previous month.

Canada's total primary and secondary energy production figures are not yet available for the latest period.

Canada generated 10.9 million megawatt-hours of electricity in December 2025, up from the previous month.

Canada generated 10.6 million megawatt-hours of electricity in December 2025, up from the previous month.

Canada's CPI-common core inflation slowed to 2.7% in January 2026.

Canada's merchandise imports fell by $1.0B to $62.1B in December 2025.

Canada's retail sales fell to $70.0 billion in December 2025, a slight decline from the previous month.

Canada's total retail sales reached $73.6 billion in December 2025, up from the previous month.

Canada produced 1.74 billion litres of propane in December 2025, down from the previous month.

Canada's hydrocarbon gas liquids production data remains unreleased for the latest period.

Canada's renewable fuel plant feedstocks beginning stocks fell to 143.2 thousand tonnes in December 2025.

Screened passenger traffic at Canada's eight largest airports fell to 4.6 million in January 2026.

Canada produced 24.9 million cubic metres of crude oil in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from the previous quarter.

Canada's gross natural gas withdrawals reached 21.2 billion cubic metres in December 2025, up from the previous month.

Canada's bank rate remained steady at 2.5% in February 2026.

Canada's couriers and messengers services price index fell 0.7% to 143.2 in January 2026.

Canada's machinery and equipment price index fell 1.4% in December 2025 compared to November.

Canada's machinery and equipment price index fell 1.4% in December 2025 compared to the previous quarter.

Nearly three-quarters of Canadian children under 18 now have savings set aside for postsecondary education.

The share of Canadian children under 5 with postsecondary savings fell to 67.7% in January 2025.

56.4% of children under 18 in Canada had postsecondary education savings in January 2025, up from 53.5% previously.

The share of Canadian children with less than $5,000 saved in an RESP rose to 34.6% in January 2025.

Canada's construction union wage rate index held steady at 126.3 in the fourth quarter of 2025.

The basic construction union wage rate for carpenters in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador held steady at $39.76 per hour in December 2025.

Canada's total sales for management, scientific, and technical consulting services remained flat at $100 billion in January 2024.

Canada's management, scientific and technical consulting services maintained $100 billion in total operating expenses in January 2024.

Canada's management, scientific and technical consulting services maintained $100 billion in total sales to all clients in January 2024.

Canada's management, scientific and technical consulting services saw operating revenue reach $39.9 billion in January 2024, up from $37.6 billion a year earlier.

Canada saw nearly 20,000 cybercrime incidents reported to police in the first quarter of 2025, a slight decrease from the previous quarter.

Police-reported hate crime in Canada dropped 11.2% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year.

Canada's crop production output was 2.21 times its GDP contribution in 2022.

Canada's output-to-GDP ratio for crop and animal production increased to 3.9 in January 2022.

The cost of a basic basket of goods in rural Newfoundland and Labrador fell to $49,400 in January 2024.

The poverty threshold for a single person in rural Newfoundland and Labrador increased to $24,700 in January 2024.

Canada's retail services price index fell 0.5% in September 2025.

Canada's retail services prices rose by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2025.

Canada's wholesale services price index fell 0.4% in September 2025.

Canada's wholesale services price index fell 1.4% in the third quarter of 2025.

Canada's investment in non-residential capital reached $471 billion in January 2024, up from $449 billion a year earlier.

The total cost of the Market Basket Measure basket rose to $666,817 in January 2023, up from $648,161.

Canada's average basket coefficient remained steady at 2.09 in January 2023.

Canada had 4.6 million people living in low income in January 2023, up from 4.5 million a year earlier.

The number of Canadians living in low income increased to 4.6 million in January 2023.

The number of Canadians with disabilities living in low income dropped to 1.476 million in January 2023.

The number of Canadians living in low income increased to 4.69 million in January 2023.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s economy contributed 0.036% to Canada’s GDP growth in January 2024, reversing a 0.046% decline the previous month.

Newfoundland and Labrador's GDP share remained at 100 in January 2024.

St. John’s had 8,000 businesses with employees in January 2025, unchanged from the previous period.

Canada had 1.38 million businesses with employees in January 2025.

Canada had 3.6 million businesses without employees in January 2025.

All centre-based child care providers in Newfoundland and Labrador charged $10 or less per day for infants under 24 months in April 2024.

Nearly 1 in 5 supervisory child care staff in Canada had no formal early childhood education training as of April 2024.

Nearly all child care centres in Canada were licensed by provincial, territorial, or local authorities as of January 2024.

Canada had 14,500 child care providers with space for 1 to 20 children in April 2024.

Canada had 909,000 children enrolled in centre-based child care in January 2024.

About 1 in 4 child care centres in Canada hired at least one supervisory staff member in 2023.

All child care centres in Canada reported having children enrolled as of April 2024.

Nearly all Canadian child care centres employed full-time supervisory staff in January 2024.

Nearly half of licensed home-based child care providers in Canada charge $10 or less per day for children aged 5 and younger not attending school.

About 1 in 4 licensed home-based child care providers in Canada had family child care-specific workshop training as their highest ECE-related qualification in April 2024.

Just over half of home-based child care providers in Canada were licensed or registered as of January 2024.

Canada had 1,100 licensed home-based child care providers with space for 1 to 3 children as of April 2024.

No licensed home-based child care providers in Canada had zero children enrolled as of April 2024.

Canada had about 47,000 centre-based and home-based child care providers operating as of January 2024.

Canada had 14,523 centre-based child care providers operating as of January 2024.

Just 41.9% of Canada’s centre-based child care providers received training in child health and personal care as of April 2024.

71% of centre-based child care providers in Canada received funding from the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care agreement as of January 2024.

Nearly 7 in 10 licensed child care providers in Quebec received funding from the Reduced Contribution Program in January 2024.

More than half of Canada's centre-based child care providers operate as not-for-profit organizations as of April 2024.

Nearly one in five Canadian child care centres had unionized employees in January 2024.

Over half of unlicensed home-based child care providers in Canada cite wanting control over their own business as their reason for operating without a license.

Canada had 19.3 million paid worker jobs in January 2023, up from the previous month.

The average annual employment income in Canada rose to $57.6K in January 2023.

The average market income for Canadians reached $33,100 in January 2023, up from $32,100 the previous year.

Over 5.6 million Canadians with disabilities reported employment income in January 2023, up from 5.46 million the previous year.

The number of Canadians with employment income reached 23.2 thousand in January 2023, up from the previous period.

Canada's economic families earned $17.1 billion in market income in January 2023, up from $16.7 billion a year earlier.

Nearly 9.2 million Canadians with disabilities earned market income in January 2023, up from 9.0 million a year earlier.

The number of Canadians earning market income rose to 33.1 thousand in January 2023.

The share of Canadians aged 25 to 64 with any level of education remained at 100% in January 2024.

Canada's educational attainment rate for the population aged 25 to 64 remains unchanged from the OECD average in 2024.

The employment rate for Canadians aged 25 to 64 with any level of education held steady at 72.5% in January 2024.

The number of food-secure Canadians fell by 213 to 29.1 thousand in January 2023.

The number of food secure Canadians fell by 213 to 29.1K in January 2023.

Canada's income inequality, measured by the Gini coefficient for adjusted market income, decreased slightly to 42.9% in 2023.

Statistics Canada did not release Newfoundland and Labrador's GDP data for January 2024.

The average total income for Canadians aged 15 and over reached $33,100 in 2023, up from the previous year.

Nearly 9.25 million Canadians with disabilities reported earning income in January 2023, up from 9.04 million in the previous period.

The number of Canadians with income rose to 17.1 million in January 2023.

A single person in rural Canada needed at least $16,548 after tax in 1976 to avoid being counted as low-income.

Canada’s after-tax low-income cut-off for a single person in rural areas rose to $16,548 in January 2023.

The low-income threshold for a single-person household in Canada rose to $29,800 in 2023.

Canada's average after-tax income for economic families reached $39,100 in 2023, up from the previous year.

Families with young children in Canada now spend nearly half of their income on child care.

The unemployment rate for young Canadians aged 25 to 29 rose to 7.4% in January 2024.

Canada's unemployment rate for Indigenous people rose to 6.5% in January 2024.

Over 3 million Canadians reported unmet health care needs in January 2023, up from the previous period.

Statistics Canada did not release updated upper income limits for 2023, leaving the latest figures unchanged.

Statistics Canada did not release updated upper income limits for Canada's top deciles in 2023.

The number of Canadians contributing to RRSPs increased to 3.6 million in January 2023.

Canada had 34.6 million tax filers in 2023, up from the previous year.

The number of Canadians claiming charitable donations on their taxes increased by 1.0 million in January 2023.

The number of Canadian tax filers who donated to charity in January 2023 rose to 30.1 million, up from 28.9 million a year earlier.

The number of Canadian tax filers who donated to charity increased by 1.0 million in January 2023.

The number of Canadian tax filers with wages, salaries and commissions rose 2.9% in January 2023 compared to the previous year.

The number of Canadian tax filers earning wages, salaries and commissions rose 3.0% to 19.5 million in January 2023.