Press Release
Job vacancies, first quarter 2025
Job vacancies fell in the first quarter of 2025 to 524,300 (-20,600; -3.8%), following little change in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Canada’s international transactions in securities, April 2025
Canadian investors acquired $4.1 billion of foreign securities in April, led by the highest investment in US government bonds since November 2023. Meanwhile, foreign investors reduced their exposure to Canadian securities by $9.4 billion in April 2025, led by the highest monthly divestment in Canadian bonds since December 2018.
Consumer Price Index: New basket weights, 2024
Updated basket weights for the goods and services in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), representing consumer spending patterns in 2024, are now available. The 2024 basket will combine expenditure data from the Household Final Consumption Expenditures, the Survey of Household Spending and alternative data sources to account for shifts in spending.
Telecommunications services producer price indexes, first quarter 2025
Data from the first quarter of the telecommunications services producer price indexes (first quarter of 2020=100) are now available upon request.
Time pressure and time spent with friends over the last 30 years
Today, Statistics Canada is releasing data that shed light on social connections and well-being spanning more than three decades. New tables and an infographic provide information on feeling pressed for time and how much time Canadians spent alone, with family and with friends.
Census of Environment: Ocean condition account
The condition of ocean waters surrounding Canada has significant effects on Canadians and people around the world.
New data on geographic mobility of Canadian bachelor’s degree graduates, 2012 to 2021
Today, Statistics Canada is releasing new data on the geographic mobility of Canadian bachelor’s degree graduates. This release examines the movement of graduates between their place of residence prior to their studies, their place of study and their place of residence one year after graduation.
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