Manufacturing and wholesale trade sectors contract in November
Real gross domestic product was essentially unchanged in November, following a 0.3% decline in October, as contractions in goods-producing industries offset expansions in services-producing industries. The manufacturing sector fell 1.3% in November, with decreases in both durable-goods and non-durable-goods manufacturing industries. The wholesale trade sector contracted 2.1% in November, the largest contraction since April 2025. Contractions in motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts and accessories wholesaling and building material and supplies wholesaling drove the decline in November.
Quarterly natural resource export volumes move higher in the third quarter of 2025 while imports decrease
Real gross domestic product (GDP) of the natural resources sector increased 0.9% in the third quarter. In comparison, economy-wide real GDP increased 0.6% over the same period. Export volumes of the natural resource sector rose 2.2% in the third quarter. The increase was mainly attributable to the energy subsector (+5.4%). Meanwhile, the sector’s import volumes decreased 7.8%, mainly attributable to a decline in the minerals and mining subsector (-12.2%).
Journeypersons could face a higher risk of automation-related job transformation
Journeyperson occupations may face lower exposure to artificial intelligence-related job transformation relative to other occupations. However, they could face a higher risk of automation because of the repetitive nature of some tasks. In journeyperson occupations, 20% of employees could face a high risk of automation compared with 13% of employees in other occupations.
Education and work: What impacts motherhood?
In general, there is a higher proportion of women without any children among university graduates or employed women. For example, among women aged 30 to 39 years in 2024, close to half (48.6%) of university graduates had no children, compared with 37.0% of those without a university degree. Constraints related to work-life balance, as well as the cost and availability of child care, could account for the temporary absence of many mothers from the labour market, revealing a tension between motherhood and career.
Managing data privacy across the Canadian economy
In the second quarter of 2025, almost one in six Canadian businesses and organizations (15.7%) planned to adopt or incorporate security software tools over the next 12 months. Meanwhile, roughly one in five businesses and organizations (19.8%) planned to take new or additional cybersecurity actions over the next 12 months. Businesses and organizations that had used artificial intelligence said they developed new workflows (40.1%), while others purchased cloud services or cloud storage (25.7%) or computing power or specialized equipment (17.9%).
Source: Data privacy: How some Canadian businesses and organizations are adapting to online security threats
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