Statistics Canada Reports II

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

^ How come Québec City is not ahead of Winnipeg? : )

No NHL team dragging them down.

[KnoxfordGuy]

I hope our CMA population number estimates from Stats Can come out in January 2025 as per the usual. We had to wait until May 2024 for the July 2023 data. It was almost a year old at that point.

[Rhb]

Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

I hope our CMA population number estimates from Stats Can come out in January 2025 as per the usual. We had to wait until May 2024 for the July 2023 data. It was almost a year old at that point.

The Daily (Statistics Canada)has a release schedule for all their data products.
Canada population estimates: subprovincial areas are out on January 16th 2025 for 2024.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dai-quo/cal3-eng.htm

[KnoxfordGuy]

Yay!!!!!!! It totally went over my head to look and I'm usually on top of that like butter on toast

[BlackDog204]

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

^ How come Québec City is not ahead of Winnipeg? : )

Winnipeg surpassed Quebec City in metro population several years ago.

[craner]

^
They are referring to the GDP list in the quote below:

Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

Based on the 2021 data and the contraction in 2020 due to the pandemic and over compensation with the surge in growth in 2021 when economies bounced back.

2024 GDP top 10 cities by population (CMA)
This is extrapolated data and so rough it's almost a crime, but I did it just for fun.

Do not come for me haha

Toronto $520 billion
Montreal $280 billion
Vancouver $210 billion
Calgary $125 billion
Edmonton $100 billion
Ottawa $90 billion
Winnipeg $52 billion
Quebec City $57 billion
Hamilton $45 billion
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo $42 billion

[BlackDog204]

Originally Posted by craner

^
They are referring to the GDP list in the quote below:

Nope, population.

[craner]

FrAnKs was responding to the City GDP list - they are consecutive posts on the previous page.

[BlackDog204]

Originally Posted by craner

FrAnKs was responding to the City GDP list - they are consecutive posts on the previous page.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10325607&postcount=2438

[nclsteba]

In november 2019, Statcan published the Preliminary 2021 Census Metropolitan Area and Census Agglomeration Delineation here :

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/92f0138m/92f0138m2019002-eng.htm

Will we have the same information soon for the 2026 Census?

Maybe the teleworking is making the delineation more complicated to do...

[q12]

Unemployment rate rises to 6.8% (+0.3)

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241206/dq241206a-eng.htm?HPA=1

[WarrenC12]

Ontario is really spiraling. Another 50bps cut next week? Chances are better after this.

Our big Conservative provinces are struggling. Must be Trudeau's fault.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Our big Conservative provinces are struggling. Must be Trudeau's fault.

JT has got it out for them - keeps sending them more immigrants.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Ontario is really spiraling. Another 50bps cut next week? Chances are better after this.

Our big Conservative provinces are struggling. Must be Trudeau's fault.

Yes it's very important for the country for Ontario to do well even if many Canadians don't realize it.

All of the Ontario cities are near the top section of unemployment rankings, except for Ottawa which is insulated due to the federal hiring bubble.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Acajack

All of the Ontario cities are near the top section of unemployment rankings, except for Ottawa which is insulated due to the federal hiring bubble.

PP will take care of that!!!

[zoomer]

The 7 cities with the highest unemployment rate are in the two chaotic right wing provinces.. interesting. By chaotic I mean they lack consistent evidence based approaches to governing and instead rely heavily on ideology, culture wars and personal whims of leadership.

Victoria is the only city to see unemployment drop and now the lowest rate - what’s going on there eh? Of course government employment doesn’t hurt, but the economy is highly diversified, and even employment participation rates are on the rise.

[P'tit Renard]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Ontario is really spiraling. Another 50bps cut next week? Chances are better after this.

Our big Conservative provinces are struggling. Must be Trudeau's fault.

Specific to Ontario, running the immigration/NPR ponzi scheme full tilt and letting population numbers run amok is definitely Trudeau's fault. Ontarians bearing the brunt of these disastrous policies, just so the Casper boomers can see their Timmies open an extra hour. Unless you think Trudeau & Co has no control over Canada's international borders.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by zoomer

The 7 cities with the highest unemployment rate are in the two chaotic right wing provinces.. interesting. By chaotic I mean they lack consistent evidence based approaches to governing and instead rely heavily on ideology, culture wars and personal whims of leadership.

.

I am not sure that is true in the case of Ontario at least. (Alberta, maybe.)

Ontario isn't really doingmore stuff to upset the woke-minded than, say, Quebec is.

And Quebec's economy is doing decently well by Canadian standards even if it's slowed down a bit.

I also don't even think that Alberta's economy is affected by UCP politics that much, or at least anything current that differs from the classic denial that hitching your horse to a single wagon isn't a good thing when that wagon starts losing wheels. Alberta Conservatives have never diverged from that.

Ontario's problems to me are on the one hand related to a delayed rust belt-ization of the economy outside the GTA that has come with a 40-year delay compared to when it hit places just across the border. (Admittedly it hasn't hit Ontario as hard.) Plus you have so many newcomers who have moved to the province that it's caused a glut in the employment market as people are too numerous to be adsorbed by the economy plus they don't always have the skills needed for available jobs.

[craner]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Plus you have so many newcomers who have moved to the province that it's caused a glut in the employment market as people are too numerous to be adsorbed by the economy.

This was my first thought for both Ontario & Alberta.

[zoomer]

/\ good point and no doubt the major reason for the higher unemployment rates. In Ontario's case, for the present and future Doug Ford's personal whims and chaotic approach to governing are damaging the economy through unpredictability and apparent corruption. Alcohol privatization, Science Centre, greenbelt/development, further investments in road infrastructure/ripping out bike lanes, subpar public transportation and a lack of a clear, coherent plan all hurts the economy. Then again you could likely say the same amount most governments these days.

As for Alberta, time, money and attention spent on culture wars is a drain, divisive and not conducive to economic growth. We've heard for decades how they will/must diversify and there has been some success, but the economy still seems largely dependent on low taxes and oil and gas (which enable the first).

A very quick overview filled with gaps no doubt but I'm at the beach listening to the ocean waves right now and now will continue my walk.