The Daily Monday, March 16, 2026
Press Release
March 16, 2026
Consumer Price Index, February 2026
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.8% year over year in February, down from an increase of 2.3% in January. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.1% in February.
National balance sheet and financial flow accounts, fourth quarter 2025
Canadian households continued to accumulate financial wealth in the fourth quarter of 2025, as their net worth—the value of all assets minus all liabilities—increased by $230.2 billion to reach $18,594.9 billion, continuing a string of gains that began at the end of 2023.
New motor vehicle sales, January 2026
In January, 114,415 new motor vehicles were sold in Canada, a decrease of 5.6% from January 2025. In dollar terms, sales decreased 6.1% in January 2026 compared with one year earlier. Over the same period, sales of new passenger cars fell by 18.2%, while sales of new trucks saw a smaller decline of 3.9%.
Functional health of Canadian adults, 2015 to 2024
The functional health of Canadian adults has declined over the past decade, largely due to deteriorating emotional health and the increasing prevalence of pain. Functional health, measured using the Health Utilities Index Mark 3, is an important measure of health-related quality of life (included in Canada’s Quality of Life Framework) that summarizes an individual’s level of difficulty in eight attributes: vision, hearing, speech, cognition, dexterity, mobility, emotional health and pain. The attributes can then be combined into a multi-attribute score summarizing the individual’s overall functional health status. A score of 0.89 to 1.00 indicates very good to perfect functional health, while scores below 0.89 indicate moderate to poor functional health.
Annual update of the Longitudinal Immigration Database Express Entry module, 2024
Additional data elements on the Express Entry system, up to and including the year 2024, are now included in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) to allow analysis of the economic outcomes of those who apply to this system.
Traffic Flow Dashboard
Statistics Canada has launched the Traffic Flow Dashboard as a source of experimental statistics to provide information on the traffic flow on selected road segments in the cities of Calgary and Toronto.
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