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July 26, 2024
HALIFAX BUSINESS CONDITIONS: JULY 15-JULY 21, 2024

Statistics Canada has released real-time local business conditions from July 15 to July 21, 2024. Reference dates reported now refer to the date following the end of the reference week. These data are not adjusted for seasonality and monthly or weekly changes may simply reflect regular seasonal patterns.

From August 10 of 2020 to July 22, 2024, the local business conditions index for Halifax increased by 377.2%. Regina, Abbotsford and Windsor reported the strongest growth in business ...

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July 26, 2024
US PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAY, JUNE 2024

Month over month (June 2024 vs May 2024, seasonally adjusted)

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that US personal income increased by $50.3 billion (+0.21%). Employee compensation was up $44.4 billion (+0.30%). Personal disposable income was up $37.7 billion (+0.18%) while personal consumption expenditures (PCE) grew by $57.6 billion (+0.30%).

US personal savings declined by $21.7 billion (-2.99%)              &...

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July 25, 2024
PAYROLL EMPLOYMENT AND AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS, MAY 2024

Monthly (May 2024 vs April 2024, seasonally adjusted)

Nova Scotia had 454,140 payroll employees in May 2024, down 0.1% (-455) compared to April 2024, the only decline among provinces. Canada had 18.20 million employees, up 0.2% from April 2024. There were gains in nine provinces, led by Newfoundland and Labrador.     ...

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July 25, 2024
JOB VACANCIES, MAY 2024

Monthly (May 2024 vs April 2024, seasonally adjusted)

Nova Scotia had 15,215 job vacancies in May 2024 with a vacancy rate of 3.3%. Canadian employers were actively recruiting for 559,650 positions in May with a vacancy rate of 3.1%. The national job vacancy rate declined 0.1 percentage points in May 2024 with six provinces reporting low...

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July 25, 2024
POLICE REPORTED CRIME STATISTICS, 2023

Statistics Canada has released the 2023 results for police-reported crime statistics collected under the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey. This annual publication measures the volume of crime, crime rates (per 100,000 population), and crime severity (based on sentencing data) by types of crime.   

In 2023, Nova Scotia's crime rate (Criminal Code violations excluding traffic) was 5,933.2 incidents per 100,000 population. In comparison, Canada's crime ...

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