The Weekly Review, August 9 to 13, 2021
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Statistics Canada's look at the week
Release date: August 13, 2021
More Canadians returning by car year over year
In July, 202,400 Canadian residents returned from the United States in Canadian-licensed automobiles. While this is more than the 144,500 recorded in July 2020, it is just a fraction (7.2%) of the 2.8 million who drove back across the border during the same month in 2019.
Source: Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, July 2021
Over 23,000 Canadians have died from COVID-19
From March 2020 to mid-May 2021, there were an estimated 19,979 excess deaths in Canada, or 6.0% more deaths than what would be expected were there no pandemic, after accounting for changes in the population, such as aging. Over this same period, 23,050 deaths were directly attributed to COVID-19.
Source: Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2020 to May 2021
Vacant land is nearly 15 times more expensive in British Columbia than in New Brunswick
The median price of properties sold in British Columbia was over three times the price in Nova Scotia in 2018, and almost four times the price in New Brunswick. The price gap was most pronounced for vacant land in British Columbia, where the median price was almost 9 times higher than in Nova Scotia and nearly 15 times higher than in New Brunswick.
Source: Canadian Housing Statistics Program, Properties sold in 2018
Inappropriate sexualized behaviour more common for women in occupations historically held by men
For women, experiences of inappropriate sexualized behaviour in 2020 were most common for those working in certain occupations historically held by men. For example, almost half (47%) of women working in trades, transportation, equipment operation and related occupations said that they experienced inappropriate sexualized behaviour at work in the year leading up to the pandemic―compared with 19% of men.
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