The average distance travelled by workers to their place of work in 2006 was 7.6 kilometres, up from 7.2 kilometres in 2001 and 7.0 kilometres in 1996. Workers in Ontario had the highest median distance in 2006 at 8.7 kilometres.
In March, employment among older workers (55 years and older) increased by 24,000, building on the strong gains of the past year. Older workers have shown the fastest employment increase of all age groups over the past 12 months, with an annual growth rate of 7.8 percent, well above the 0.9 percent for core-aged (25 to 54 years) workers.
In January, the average weekly Canadian earnings of all payroll employees ( full and part-time) increased $4.38 from December to $785.14. Compared with a year earlier, average weekly earnings were up 3 percent.
In Canada’s largest industrial sectors, earnings were up 3.3 percent in manufacturing, 2.8 percent in health and social assistance, 2.5 percent in educational services, and 1.6 percent in retail trade compared with a year earlier. Quebec and Manitoba have had the strongest year-over-year earnings growth of all provinces at 4.7 percent and 4.6 percent respectively. The average hourly earnings for hourly paid employees edged up $0.08 to $19.68 in January.
Canadian employment growth continued in February with gains estimated at 43,000, pushing Canada’s employment rate to a new record high (63.9 percent). For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate held steady at its 33-year low of 5.8 percent. Employment growth over the last 12 months stands at 361,000 (+2.2 percent).
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In November, the average weekly Canadian earnings of all payroll employees ( full and part-time) increased $7.65 from October to $784.83. Compared with a year earlier, average weekly earnings were up 4.0 percent.
In Canada’s largest industrial sectors in November, earnings were up 6.2 percent in health and social assistance, 4.5 percent in manufacturing, 3.0 percent [...]
Details from Statistics Canada have revealed that more than one million immigrants arrived in Canada in the last five years, settling in a country that is now home to 150 languages and people from more than 200 countries.
The 2006 Census enumerated 6,186,950 foreign-born people in Canada. They accounted for virtually one in five (19.8%) of [...]
Canada’s population has exceeded 33 million, according to demographic estimates from Statistics Canada, which also show that Saskatchewan has more than 1 million people for the first time since 2001. The estimates also show that Saskatchewan has supplanted Alberta as Canada’s fastest-growing province.
As of October 1, 2007, Canada’s population was estimated at 33,091,200, up 115,200 [...]
The Canadian residential average price rose 11.7 per cent year-over-year in November to $313,645. This was the seventh consecutive month in which the increase in average price has exceeded ten percent and the largest increase since July. Average prices broke all previous monthly records in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Quebec, and stood just slightly below record levels on a national basis in Ontario. “2007 has been a tremendous year for Canada’s housing market, and we expect overall sales activity to edge slightly lower in 2008,” CREAPresident Ann Bosley said. “Prices are also forecast to set new records, but the increase in average price will be smaller in 2008.”
Canadian resale housing activity edged back in the third quarter of 2007 from its peak in the second quarter but remains very strong, according to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).
Sales activity totalled 129,451 units in the third quarter of 2007, a 3.2 per cent decline from the record set in the [...]
Employment in Canada continued to rise in October, jumping an estimated 63,000, split between full and part time in a report from Statistics Canada . At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to a 33-year low of 5.8 percent, down 0.1 of a percentage point from September. Canadian employment has increased 2.1 percent (+346,000) [...]