The Daily Friday, February 18, 2022
Press Release
Retail trade, December 2021
Retail sales fell 1.8% to $57.0 billion in December. Lower sales at clothing and clothing accessories stores (-9.5%) and furniture and home furnishings stores (-11.3%) led the decline, which coincided with concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in December.
New Housing Price Index, January 2022
In January 2022, new home prices for Canada grew by 0.9% compared with December 2021, slightly up after the market had a brief slowdown in December. Prices were up in 15 of the 27 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) surveyed, and unchanged in 12.
Monthly credit aggregates, December 2021
Households added mortgage debt at a relatively slower pace in December, with total mortgage liabilities growing $10.4 billion (+0.5%) from November to reach $1,950.7 billion at the end of 2021. While the volume of existing home sales was lower in December on an unadjusted basis, the average sale price remained above the $700,000 mark. In December, new home prices for Canada grew (+0.2%) at their slowest pace since June 2020 according to the New Housing Price Index.
Canadian Wastewater Survey, December 2021 to January 2022
With the emergence of the Omicron variant, Canada finds itself in the midst of another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been at an all-time high in most provinces and territories. Since fall 2020, Statistics Canada has partnered with the National Microbiology Laboratory from the Public Health Agency of Canada to develop methods that detect and monitor levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the wastewater of five cities (Metro Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montréal and Halifax).
Quarterly civil aviation statistics, third quarter 2021
Operating revenue for the 24 largest Canadian air carriers totalled $3.3 billion in the third quarter, more than double the amount from the same quarter of 2020. However, this represents less than half (40.3%) of the revenue generated in the third quarter of 2019.
Monthly Mineral Production Survey, December 2021
During the last quarter of 2021, the total value of shipments of minerals posted an overall decrease of 11.9% compared with the previous quarter, after experiencing a sharp drop during the month of October. While subsequent increases were reported in November and December, they were not enough to counter October’s decrease. Lower shipment values for gold, iron ore and copper were mainly responsible for the decline.
Real-time local business conditions, February 7 to 13, 2022
Weekly data on real-time local business conditions are now available for February 7 to 13, 2022.
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