Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Retail sales stall

RETAIL sales stalled in the month just before Christmas as consumers spent less on big ticket items such as furniture, home furnishings and electronic gadgetry.    more >>

Factory expectations grim

MANUFACTURERS have entered 2005 with their lowest expectations for production and employment levels in a year.    more >>

Cash for culture

THE THREE levels of government spent a total of about $236 for each Canadian on culture in 2002/03 to assist everyone from book and periodical publishers to performing arts groups and the film and video industry.    more >>

SPOTLIGHT: Housing

This week’s Spotlight is on urban housing. Conditions improved considerably in Canada's largest urban areas during the late 1990s. Even so, one out of every six households in metropolitan areas was considered to be in "core housing need”.    more >>

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