Food purchased from stores index decelerates in June
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.8% year over year in June, following a 3.2% gain in May. Prices for food purchased from stores grew at a slower pace on a year-over-year basis in June (+3.9%) compared with May (+4.3%). Despite the slowdown, June was the 17th consecutive month that grocery price inflation outpaced the all-items CPI. Month over month, the CPI fell 0.4% in June, the largest monthly decline since December 2024.
Source: Consumer Price Index, June 2026
Rate of breaking and entering down for third consecutive year
In 2025, the Crime Severity Index (CSI) decreased 5% to a value of 75.01. This marked the second consecutive annual decrease, following an upward trend beginning in 2015 that reached 81.27 in 2023. Breaking and entering had the largest impact on the decline in the CSI in 2025. The police-reported rate declined 11% to 264 incidents per 100,000 population, or 109,753 incidents. The rate of breaking and entering has been steadily declining over time. The rate in 2025 was 41% lower than in 2015, and 77% lower than in 1998, the first year with comparable data.
International and domestic strength offset decline in transborder traffic
In 2025, 158.9 million passengers enplaned and deplaned at Canadian airports, up 1.3% from 2024. The year 2025 marked a notable change in travel patterns, as Canadian travellers made fewer cross-border trips amid trade tensions with the United States. The number of passengers enplaned and deplaned at Canadian airports on flights to and from the United States fell 7.9% year over year. Meanwhile, airports saw higher demand for domestic air travel (+2.9%) and an even greater increase for other international (outside the United States) air travel (+5.1%).
Workforce aging and labour productivity
Research often shows that an aging workforce is associated with less productivity growth. A recent study examines the impact of the workforce aging on Canadian labour productivity using firm-level measures for the age of the Canadian workforce from 2001 to 2022. In general, labour productivity rises as the average age of a firm's workforce rises, peaking among firms with an average worker age of 41 to 50 years, after which it declines. Firms in this group are 8.8% to 11.1% more productive than the reference group (firms with an average worker age of 25 years and younger) and 1.0% to 2.8% more productive than firms with an average worker age of 56 years and older.
Greenhouse lettuce production five times higher than in 2011
Marketed production of fresh lettuce totalled 84 343 tonnes in 2025, up for the second year in a row. Greenhouse production of fresh lettuce in Canada has risen steadily over the years and was five times higher in 2025 (+401.4%) than it was in 2011, the year we started tracking lettuce production data in tonnes. In 2025, Canada imported 148.3 million kg of fresh lettuce (not organic), valued at $374.5 million. One factor contributing to consumer prices is the cost of imported lettuce, especially during the off-season.
Source: Lettuce talk about how much Canada grows
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