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View the Archive..December 15, 2025CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, NOVEMBER 2025 
Year-over-year (November 2025 vs November 2024)
All items: Consumer prices in Nova Scotia increased 2.4%, down 0.2 percentage points from inflation in the previous month. The national average inflation was 2.2%. In Halifax consumer prices increased 2.2%.
All items excluding food and energy: Nova Scotia consumer prices outs...
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December 15, 2025NEW VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS, Q3 2025 Statistics Canada now reports Nova Scotia results for new motor vehicle registrations. Data are reported for all provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador and Alberta.
In Q3 2025, there were 15,529 new vehicles registered in Nova Scotia, up 20.1% from Q3 2024. Among fuel types, gasoline powered vehicles were the most common with 12,566 registrations - over 3 times the number of other fuel types registered (diesel, battery electric, hybrid and plug-in hybr...
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December 12, 2025CANADIAN INCOME SURVEY: POVERTY, 2023 BASKET REVISION AND 2024 PROVISIONAL Statistics Canada has recently issues two updates to poverty measurements from the Canadian Income Survey.
1. Updating the Market Basket on which the Market Basket Measure is assessed to 2023. There were minor changes to shelter, clothing, food and transporation estimation methods while a new communication services component was added (removing this item from 'other'). Likewise, ...
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December 12, 2025BUILDING PERMITS, OCTOBER 2025 Monthly (seasonally adjusted, October 2025 vs September 2025)

Changes in monthly building permit values are typically very volatile, with large swings from one month to the next. &nb...
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December 12, 2025NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES, OCTOBER 2025 Year-to-date (January-October 2025 vs January-October 2024, unadjusted)
Compared with January-October 2024, Nova Scotia unit sales of new vehicles (+14.4%) reported a faster gain than in any other province, with national unit sales up 3.7%. Unit sales were up in all provinces except Québec. ...
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