The Daily Thursday, May 26, 2022
Press Release
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies, March 2022
The number of employees receiving pay or benefits from their employer—measured by the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours as payroll employment—increased by 118,100 (+0.7%) in March.
Retail trade, March 2022
Retail sales were virtually unchanged in March. Sales were up in 10 of 11 subsectors, led by higher sales at gasoline stations (+7.4%). Lower sales at motor vehicle and parts dealers (-6.4%) erased the gains observed in the remaining subsectors.
Aircraft movement statistics: Major airports, March 2022
In March, exactly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 375,833 aircraft movements at Canada’s major airports. This number was an increase of 6.2% from the same month in 2021 and almost three-quarters (74.2%) of the number recorded in March 2019, before the pandemic.
Monthly civil aviation statistics, March 2022
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, passenger numbers, traffic and capacity all reached their highest levels since March 2020.
National Travel Survey, fourth quarter 2021
In the fourth quarter of 2021, Canadians took 53.9 million trips within Canada or abroad, nearly 20 million more than in the fourth quarter of 2020. While this is a clear sign of recovery in travel, numeric and qualitative differences are apparent when compared with the same quarter in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deliveries of major grains, April 2022
Data on major grain deliveries are now available for April.
Commercial rents in key Canadian economic markets, first quarter 2022
Data from the Commercial Rents Services Price Index are now available for the first quarter of 2022.
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