The Daily Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Press Release
Consumer Price Index, May 2021
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.6% on a year-over-year basis in May, up from a 3.4% gain in April. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.4% in May.
Lending Services Price Index, first quarter 2021
Data from the Lending Services Price Index (2017=100) are now available for the first quarter of 2021.
Wholesale trade, April 2021
Sales by Canadian wholesalers rose 0.4% in April, the third increase in the last four months. Activity was mixed with continued increases in the building material and supply subsector.
Employer pension plans (trusteed pension funds), fourth quarter 2020
The market value of assets held by Canadian trusteed pension funds continued its strong growth in the second half of 2020, rising $100 billion in the fourth quarter to $2.22 trillion. This was up 4.7% from the previous quarter and up 6.6% year over year.
Fewer adult criminal court cases were completed during the first three quarters of 2020/2021
During the first nine months of the pandemic, the number of cases completed in adult criminal courts dropped by one-third compared with the same period the previous year. Furthermore, the proportion of completed adult criminal court cases that exceeded the Jordan limit—a ceiling set by the Supreme Court beyond which delays are presumed to be unreasonable and could result in a stay of proceedings—increased from 3.8% to 6.7%.
Study: Access to mental health consultations by immigrants and refugees in Canada
A new study by Statistics Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is the first to use immigrant landing data linked with health survey data to examine the access to mental health consultation services of immigrants in Canada by admission category and other immigration characteristics (e.g., region of origin and duration since landing).
Weekly aircraft movements, May 29 to June 4, 2021
Weekly data on aircraft itinerant movements are now available for May 29 to June 4, 2021.
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