This spring, Sacramento tied the state’s budget to consequential housing reforms, forcing a contentious showdown in the Legislature. With lawmakers facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit and mounting pressure to deliver results, a series of long-debated reforms were pushed through. While much of the policy discussion has focused on densely-pop...
June’s inflation data showed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising 2.7% year-over-year, up from 2.4% in May and marking the fastest pace since February. It took several months, but the effects of the import tariffs introduced in April now appear to be materializing in the data.
The recent numbers effectively confirm what many expected: businesses w...
This morning's release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from Statistics Canada brought a modest uptick in headline inflation in June to 1.9%, from 1.7% in May. Canadians continued to enjoy some price relief last month owing to the removal of the consumer carbon tax in April, which will put downward pressure on the annual rate of inflation for a y...
The latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) data release from Statistics Canada, for June 2025, showed some encouraging signs: after only adding a total of 60,700 jobs through the first five months of the year, Canada saw employment grow by 83,100 last month alone.
The month-to-month changes in the LFS are notoriously volatile and should generally be taken...
