New monthly record for crude oil production
Primary energy production reached 2.2 million terajoules in December 2025, essentially unchanged from December 2024. Production of crude oil and equivalent products rose 2.8% to reach 27.8 million cubic metres in December 2025, the highest monthly volume since the start of the series in 2016. Exports to the United States by pipeline edged up 0.4% to 18.2 million cubic metres in December 2025, marking the first monthly year-over-year increase in 11 months.
Source: Energy statistics, December 2025
Retail sales rise in December
Retail sales reached $73.6 billion in December, an increase of 2.2% compared with the same month one year earlier. Higher sales were recorded in 13 of the 18 commodity classes. In December, the largest monthly increase in dollar terms came from sales of food and beverages, which rose 4.4% compared with the same month in 2024.
Imported wine sales decline for the first time
Federal and provincial governments earned $15.5 billion (-2.0%) from the control and sale of alcohol ($13.1 billion; -4.2%) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, posting the largest annual decrease since these data were first collected in 2004/2005. Wine sales fell 2.2% to $7.7 billion in 2024/2025, driven by a decline in imported wine sales (-3.9%). This was the first time imported wine sales have decreased since Statistics Canada began tracking alcohol sales by origin in 1992/1993.
Source: Control and sale of alcoholic beverages and cannabis, April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025
Growth in unit labour costs accelerates in the fourth quarter
The labour productivity of Canadian businesses edged down 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2025 as hours worked declined at a slower pace than real gross domestic product (-0.2%). As labour productivity edged down in the quarter, the 0.5% rise in hourly compensation resulted in a 0.7% growth in unit labour costs to businesses. This was the fastest pace of quarterly growth since the first quarter of 2024.
Source: Labour productivity, hourly compensation and unit labour cost, fourth quarter 2025
Obesity rates among young adults aged 18 to 39 years increase sharply
Just under one in five young adults aged 18 to 39 years had obesity in the years leading up to the pandemic. From 2019 to 2024, the obesity rate for this group increased from 20% to 31%. Canadian adults across all age groups added a few kilos to their frame during this period, but younger adults gained the most weight during the pandemic and beyond. From 2019 to 2024, young adults (aged 20 to 39 years) gained on average 4.8 kilograms, middle-aged Canadians (aged 40 to 59 years) gained 3.5 kilograms, while older Canadians gained 2.9 kilograms.
Source: Weighing the data on obesity
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