The Daily Thursday, December 18, 2025
Press Release
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies, October 2025
The number of employees receiving pay and benefits from their employer—measured as “payroll employment” in the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours—increased by 21,200 (+0.1%) in October, largely offsetting a decline of 24,300 (-0.1%) in September. On a year-over-year basis, payroll employment was up 68,300 (+0.4%) in October.
Employment Insurance, October 2025
The number of Canadians receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits edged up (+1.1%; +6,200) to 553,000 in October. The number of beneficiaries has changed little since July, following an upward trend from January to June (+59,000; +12.0%).
Annual Survey of Manufacturing Industries, 2024
In 2024, total revenue in the Canadian manufacturing sector decreased by 0.9% to $931.2 billion.
Logging, 2024
Total revenue in the logging industry increased by $49.2 million (+0.4%) to $12.4 billion in 2024 after falling 0.3% in 2023. Revenue in 2024 was split almost equally between the logging (except contract) industry (50.6%) and the contract logging industry (49.4%). Revenue from logging activities—which excludes revenue from other sources, such as secondary business activities—was up 0.7% to $11.4 billion in 2024.
Monthly estimates of business openings and closures, September 2025
In September, the business opening rate edged up 0.1 percentage points to 4.8%, following a 0.2 percentage point decline in the previous month. The business closure rate edged down 0.1 percentage points for a second consecutive month to settle at 4.7% in September. Both the opening and the closure rates were 0.1 percentage points above their respective 2015-to-2019 averages.
Railway carloadings, October 2025
In October, the volume of cargo carried by Canadian railways reached 33.2 million tonnes, down slightly (-0.9%) from October 2024.
Preliminary national estimates on police-reported human trafficking incidents, 2025
Today, Statistics Canada is releasing preliminary national estimates on human trafficking incidents reported by police for 2025, which has been done since 2022. These estimates are available on request.
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