Back in the Roaring Twenties, when the Dominion Bureau of Statistics was just eight years old, we published our first iteration of what would ultimately become our monthly gross domestic product (GDP) release.
Of course, it was not called GDP in that first publication in January 1926; that term would not be coined for another eight years.
Instead, the Monthly Review of Canadian Business Statistics was launched to, in the words of the original publication, “give a general conspectus of the situation and to view current developments in their relation to each other,” providing “a general summary and review of the more important Canadian statistics.”
Flash forward to 2026, and the monthly GDP release continues to deliver—now even providing an advance indicator of the economy since April 2020.
While the original 1926 report had a very limited print run and audience, the current iteration of our monthly GDP release is viewed globally online over 2,000 times each month, making news and moving markets.
Canada’s most recent monthly GDP release will be coming out in The Daily on Friday, January 30, almost a century to the day since we began tracking Canada’s economy on a monthly basis.
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