2026-10 — full dated evidence record
Original readings, including their limits and then-future triggers. These are historical assessments.
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Evidence update · Material change
August 2026 has approximate derived totals of 40,125 permanent-resident admissions, 59,615 study permits becoming effective, 48,755 IMP permits becoming effective, 9,150 TFWP permits becoming effective and 4,560 asylum claims submitted.
More on this: Can Canada absorb its own population growth? →
Why it stands: The five official IRCC files retain their resource identities and definitions. Catalogue modification dates are October 20–22; the captured catalogues do not supply a separate issuer release date.
The qualified successor advances the dated record; prior source editions and readings remain retained.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next issuer observation, revision or methodological clarification.
Limit — wording amended 2026-10-28: These are monthly flows, not current resident or permit-holder stocks. IRCC rounds to five and suppresses small cells; derived sums are approximate and the PR, study and asylum resource names say not for calculations; work-permit catalogue rounding/suppression caveats remain. Countability presents these as approximate administrative-flow totals; no precision beyond the source is implied.
Original limitation recorded October 26, 2026
Historical wording, retained for transparency: These are monthly flows, not current resident or permit-holder stocks. IRCC rounds to five and suppresses small cells; derived sums are approximate and the PR, study and asylum resource names say not for calculations; work-permit catalogue rounding/suppression caveats remain. The user reconfirmed existing use; no precision beyond the source is implied.
Wording amendment and effect →
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Issuer revision · Material change
Earlier IRCC history changes in all five files; January 2015 IMP moves from 14,070 to 12,660. The old observations remain retained.
More on this: Can Canada absorb its own population growth? →
Why it stands: The staged comparison identifies 183 monthly numerical revisions across the five files, including substantial 2015 changes and smaller later revisions. The captured sources do not establish a revision cause.
The qualified successor advances the dated record; prior source editions and readings remain retained.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next issuer observation, revision or methodological clarification.
Limit: Do not interpret differences between source editions as a new migration event or infer a definition change. Rounding/suppression limits and approximate aggregation continue to apply.
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Evidence update · Material change
During 2026 Q3, 63,641 dwellings started on the unadjusted all-areas measure, including 38,413 apartment and other units.
More on this: Can governments still solve housing shortages? →
Why it stands: Exact coordinates and unit/seasonal basis match the registered concepts. Statistics Canada redistributed these observations October 19, separately from CMHC’s October 16 calendar. No selected prior numeric point changed.
The qualified successor advances the dated record; prior source editions and readings remain retained.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next issuer observation, revision or methodological clarification.
Limit: Actual quarterly counts differ from the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate. Completion/under-construction mirrors have unavailable observations; no new numerical completion or stock value is inferred.
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Evidence update · Material change
August 2026 records 344 business insolvencies: 261 bankruptcies and 83 proposals. The twelve months through August total 4,758, -6.56% against the preceding twelve months.
More on this: Is Canada renewing its business base? →
Why it stands: The official catalogue links the August workbook. Its 210 new selected cells pass all bankruptcy/proposal, corporate/individual-business and provincial-total reconciliations; no selected historical cell changed.
The qualified successor advances the dated record; prior source editions and readings remain retained.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next issuer observation, revision or methodological clarification.
Limit: BIA filings are not statistical business closures. The catalogue modification date is not asserted as a release date; the workbook was captured October 26.
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Definition change · Material change
The 2025 adult snapshot includes 83.4% with a primary health care provider and 15.1% reporting fair or poor mental health, Canada excluding territories, with published 95% confidence intervals.
More on this: How well is Canada meeting health needs? →
Why it stands: The older provider series is marked terminated and the issuer directs the primary-provider indicator to table 13-10-0986-01. The 2025 chronic-condition questionnaire changed to mark all that apply.
The qualified successor advances the dated record; prior source editions and readings remain retained.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next issuer observation, revision or methodological clarification.
Limit: This is a separately dated snapshot, not a cross-table or year-over-year change estimate. Keep ages, geography, quality flags, confidence intervals and questionnaire change explicit; retain the 2024 reading.
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Evidence update · Material change
September housing starts were running at an annualized 248,896 dwellings, 2.8% above revised August (242,223).
More on this: Can governments still solve housing shortages? →
Why it stands: CMHC’s scheduled release date was October 16. Statistics Canada’s redistribution table is dated October 19; this reading uses the captured table, not a successfully archived CMHC release page (HTTP 403 on this run). The August national SAAR was revised from 229,046 to 242,223 (+13,177); July was revised from 229,360 to 246,341 (+16,981). The captured table does not explain the revision cause.
This updates one part of the housing record. Starts, spending, prices and completed homes remain separate measures.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next source release, revision or definition change.
Limit: Seasonally adjusted annual rate; not actual homes started during September. Five held monthly observations were revised. The separate metropolitan completion edition remains August. September is 2.8% above revised August; comparison with the earlier August edition would incorrectly show 8.7%.
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Evidence update · Material change
August residential investment was $14.50 billion in constant 2023 dollars, seasonally adjusted, -0.5% from revised July and +4.5% from August 2025.
More on this: Can governments still solve housing shortages? →
Why it stands: Issuer release 2026-10-21; captured October 26 UTC (October 25 Toronto). Every held reference date and earlier dated reading is retained. The issuer revised May by −$24.6 million, June by −$39.6 million and July by −$72.5 million in constant 2023 dollars. The August change is about −0.46% from revised July, rather than about −0.95% against the earlier July edition.
This updates one part of the housing record. Starts, spending, prices and completed homes remain separate measures.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next source release, revision or definition change.
Limit: This measures real residential construction spending, not dwelling counts, completions, occupancy or current-dollar spending. Three earlier observations were revised.
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Evidence update · Material change
The September New Housing Price Index was 120.2 (December 2016=100), -0.2% from August and -2.0% from September 2025.
More on this: Can governments still solve housing shortages? →
Why it stands: Issuer release 2026-10-22; captured October 26 UTC (October 25 Toronto). Every held reference date and earlier dated reading is retained.
This updates one part of the housing record. Starts, spending, prices and completed homes remain separate measures.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next source release, revision or definition change.
Limit: The index covers new single, semi-detached and row houses; it does not cover resale prices or condominium apartments and does not measure affordability.
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Evidence update · Material change
August private non-financial corporate credit liabilities were $2.409 trillion, 4.52% above August 2025.
More on this: Is Canada renewing its business base? →
Why it stands: The October 20 release adds August and revises earlier levels. June changes from $2,408,873 million to $2,409,340 million; July from $2,406,526 million to $2,407,981 million. Captured October 26 UTC (October 25 Toronto). Earlier dated extracts and readings retain their original edition.
The nominal debt stock is 4.52% higher than a year earlier. This does not establish credit availability, new lending, or the financial health of individual businesses.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next corporate credit source release or revision.
Limit: Seasonally adjusted nominal stock; separate population from employer business counts and formal insolvencies. Not new lending or household debt.
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Issuer revision · Material change
The latest housing-starts table revises April to August 2026: April −1,140; May −120; June −648; July +16,981; August +13,177 dwellings at a seasonally adjusted annual rate.
More on this: Can governments still solve housing shortages? →
Why it stands: Statistics Canada redistributed the CMHC series on October 19. August is now 242,223, compared with 229,046 in the held earlier edition; July is now 246,341, compared with 229,360.
The qualified issuer revisions change the earlier starts history and the derived population-to-starts pressure and rent/starts correlation. No cause for the revisions is established.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A later qualified starts release or an issuer explanation of the historical revisions.
Limit: These are issuer revisions, not evidence that the earlier faithful capture was erroneous. Their cause is not established by the captured mirror. September’s 2.8% increase compares with revised August; mixing editions would incorrectly show 8.7%.
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Unresolved · Material reading
New August IRCC files have been captured but are not yet incorporated. This page retains its qualified July administrative-flow edition.
This earlier qualification hold was resolved in the October 26 successor reading. The earlier statement remains recorded here.
Why it stands: The files revise earlier observations, including large changes in the 2015 work-permit record and other historical revisions. Their coverage and definition basis needs qualification before historical comparisons are advanced.
The held edition remains distinct from new source evidence. No unqualified successor is promoted.
Trigger recorded for this reading: Source definition and historical revision qualification, or the next issuer clarification.
Limit: Permit-related monthly administrative flows are not population stocks and cannot be added across overlapping categories. The August files are staged; no new IRCC report vintage or observation is promoted.
Unresolved · Material reading
A newer health-survey edition includes 2025 observations, while the previously used regular-healthcare-provider series is marked terminated. The qualified 2024 survey figures remain the held edition.
This earlier qualification hold was resolved in the October 26 successor reading. The earlier statement remains recorded here.
Why it stands: The captured 13-10-0905-01 extract adds 3,960 selected 2025 rows and marks 7,260 selected provider-series rows with TERMINATED=t. The meaning and successor comparability remain under review.
The held edition remains distinct from new source evidence. No unqualified successor is promoted.
Trigger recorded for this reading: Source definition and historical revision qualification, or the next issuer clarification.
Limit: This notice concerns the Canadian Community Health Survey, not the separate life-expectancy, unmet-needs, surgical-wait or substance-harm releases. No 2025 survey values are promoted. The source also warns of 2025 chronic-condition questionnaire changes and redirects the comparable primary-provider indicator to table 13-10-0986-01; no cross-table equivalence is inferred.
Unresolved · Material reading
The insolvency catalogue now links an August 2026 workbook. The July filing edition shown here is retained while that successor is qualified.
This earlier qualification hold was resolved in the October 26 successor reading. The earlier statement remains recorded here.
Why it stands: The freshly captured official Open Government catalogue identifies the August resource; recapturing the older July URL did not qualify it.
The held edition remains distinct from new source evidence. No unqualified successor is promoted.
Trigger recorded for this reading: Source definition and historical revision qualification, or the next issuer clarification.
Limit: Current figures are the held July edition, not an assertion that July is the latest publisher release. Formal insolvency filings describe bankruptcies and proposals, not all business closures.
Evidence update · Material change
September consumer prices rose 3.1% over the year, after 3.0% in August. Gasoline rose 27.8% and groceries 1.7%. Rent inflation held at 2.8%. Average hourly wages rose 2.3%, leaving a -0.8 percentage-point wage–price gap.
More on this: The price of everything: one headline rate, and the components underneath it →
Why it stands: The October 19 capture adds September to all 27 registered CPI series without dropping a held month. It records 4 revised historical values in the revisable core series. September wages were already held; prices now permit a matched-month comparison.
The headline increased while grocery inflation slowed and rent inflation was unchanged. Slower price growth does not mean lower price levels. The wage comparison describes an average across employees, not a fixed worker or household.
Trigger recorded for this reading: October CPI, scheduled for November 16 in the September issuer release, or revisions to these observations.
Limit: Component rates are not weighted contributions and are never added. CPI rent covers occupied rental housing, not only advertised leases. Core measures remain revisable. The wage–price gap subtracts rounded annual rates; it is not a compounded real-wage index. Wages are unadjusted and sensitive to employee composition.
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Evidence update · Material change
Canada’s installed generating capacity reached 155.906 GW in 2025, up 157.04 MW (0.1%) from the revised 2024 level of 155.749 GW.
More on this: Canada's electricity expansion: the projected pace and the delivered record →
Why it stands: Statistics Canada’s October 19 release adds 2025 and revises 2024 from 156.388 GW to 155.749 GW. The earlier reading is retained. Comparing the new year with the old edition would incorrectly show a decline.
Installed capacity increased only slightly in 2025. One annual change does not establish the sustained expansion assumed by the CER scenarios. Measured and modelled records remain separate statistical bases.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next annual capacity release or an issuer revision; monthly generation and electricity trade are assessed separately.
Limit: Installed generating capacity is not electricity generated, dependable peak capacity, transmission availability or power deliverable to a proposed load. This is an issuer revision, not evidence that the earlier faithful capture was erroneous. Provincial and fuel totals overlap and are not added together.
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Evidence update · Material change
August permits authorized 24,705 new dwelling units, 13.5% more than August 2025 on the unadjusted count. July was revised from 24,022 to 23,470, a reduction of 552 units.
More on this: Can governments still solve housing shortages? →
Why it stands: Statistics Canada released August permits on October 14; the October 15 source capture retains every held month and records the July revision. Earlier dated readings and Data editions retain their original figures.
The same-month comparison describes residential construction intentions. It does not measure how many authorized dwellings started, finished or became occupied.
Trigger recorded for this reading: September building permits, scheduled for November 12, or revisions to the held observations.
Limit: August is preliminary and subject to revision. These are unadjusted new-dwelling counts, distinct from seasonally adjusted permit values in dollars. Month-to-month movement is not interpreted as seasonally controlled momentum. Permits do not establish construction or occupancy, and this update does not refresh the separate starts, completions or investment series.
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Evidence update · Material change
September is fully covered: 14,614.87 truck entries/day, including 1,811.87 with United States plates (12.40%). August: 14,144.03 entries/day and a 12.57% plate share. September has 22 weekdays and 8 weekend days; August has 21 and 10. These unadjusted averages do not establish a trade trend.
More on this: US Exposure Monitor →
Why it stands: The October 13 captures added all 30 September days and July 26–27, 2025 in both truck series. The initial month remains partial; its average changes because coverage expanded, not because daily counts were revised. All held daily counts remain unchanged; future captures retain this native start.
Truck coverage reaches September 30; the dated goods-trade successor remains August. This extends border-count coverage, without measuring tariff effects.
Trigger recorded for this reading: New daily observations or revisions; no truck-specific next release date is established.
Limit: Preliminary daily entries to Canada, not freight volumes or goods values. Licence plates do not identify cargo origin or duties paid. Calendar composition differs between months; Labour Day is counted as a weekday and no holiday or seasonal adjustment is applied. No tariff effect is inferred.
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Correction · Minor change
A dated amendment clarifies that the already withdrawn January labour claim stays withdrawn and the different February candidate stays deferred. The U.S. trade Pulse’s trigger grammar is corrected. Monitor links now display the name of their actual destination; Deep Dives label the assembled record’s date without claiming a fresh review of every source.
More on this: Canadian Capacity Monitor →
Why it stands: The prior examination identified ambiguous wording. The October 13 pass also corrects older Monitor-link labels and the sitewide Deep Dive date label. Earlier assessments and Pulse objects are retained exactly; source values and recorded admission states have not changed.
These are explicit copy and display-label corrections. The withdrawal was already recorded; this amendment neither changes an admission decision nor enters new evidence.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A newly qualified source or separately examined structural candidate.
Limit: The February candidate remains deferred; this amendment does not qualify it or reinstate the withdrawn January claim.
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Evidence update · Material change
September employment fell by 68,300: 35,400 fewer full-time workers and 32,900 fewer part-time workers. The employment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 60.6%, while unemployment rose 0.1 points to 6.5%. Youth unemployment was 13.0%.
More on this question: Can Canada absorb its own population growth? →
Why it stands: Statistics Canada released September Labour Force Survey estimates on October 9. The matched August and September observations are compared within this captured edition.
The latest monthly labour reading weakens. The former structural cluster window is withdrawn; the different February candidate is deferred pending its own review; the annual absorption ratio describes a different window and does not explain this monthly fall.
Trigger recorded for this reading: October Labour Force Survey release, scheduled for November 6, 2026, according to the captured September issuer release.
Limit: Labour Force Survey estimates are seasonally adjusted survey estimates, subject to sampling uncertainty and revision. Age fifteen to twenty-four is an imperfect proxy for entering working life. September wages are available but September CPI is not yet incorporated; matched wage–price comparisons remain August.
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Evidence update · Material change
The U.S. share of Canada’s goods exports was 68.34% over the twelve months through August 2026, compared with 73.88% over the preceding twelve months. U.S.-bound exports rose 8.1% in August from July, to $54.35 billion.
More on this question: Can Canada sell beyond the United States? →
Why it stands: The October 6 issuer release advances the trade reference month to August. The new balance-of-payments comparison and the separate customs, services and transport panels use their qualified source editions; prior captured July readings remain available.
A lower rolling U.S. share and a monthly rebound in U.S.-bound exports occur together. These measurements do not establish durable diversification.
Trigger recorded for this reading: September merchandise trade, scheduled November 4 in the issuer’s August release, or a revision to the current source edition.
Limit: Nominal values, seasonally adjusted, balance of payments basis. The twelve-month share divides summed U.S. exports by summed all-country exports. Customs, services, transport and goods observations are not pooled. August spans days before and after the August 22 Section 338 effective date and precedes September legal changes; these aggregates cannot identify tariff effects.
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Issuer revision · Material change
The IESO register now contains 2,085 records: eleven additions and no removals from the held September list. JBL now proposes Q1 2030, and the Darlington entry now names Holt SS.
Why it stands: The fresh public register capture closes the earlier JBL date and Darlington station-name mismatches with the held reports. Five held engineering reports retain the same contents on recheck.
The register descriptions now agree on those two points. The conditional engineering limits remain, and no delivered capacity or reactor commissioning is established.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A public successor register or engineering amendment that changes these conditions or supplies delivery evidence.
Limit: Capture is not an inferred issuer publication date. Complete is an application status, not proof of energization. JBL’s conditional 40 MW limit and separate 79 MW description/80 MW study remain; the Whitedog designation question is unresolved. The issuer reply to the earlier inquiry was not accessed.
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Withdrawal · Material change
The refreshed labour record no longer meets the rule for the previously featured co-movement between the immigrant unemployment gap and national unemployment. The previously admitted January cluster window is also withdrawn from the current record because the same rule now locates a different February window.
More on this question: Can Canada absorb its own population growth? →
Why it stands: The current deterministic calculation does not reproduce that featured relationship under the unchanged detector rule. The new cluster identity cannot inherit the earlier admission.
The relationship is withdrawn from the current Labour Deep Dive. No lower threshold or replacement claim is admitted. The different cluster remains deferred; all earlier dated readings are retained.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A later qualified observation or revision that changes the comparison under the existing rule.
Limit: Failing a detector rule does not prove there is no relationship and does not establish causation. Prior captured readings retain their dated evidence.
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Analysis update · Material change
Average disposable income rose by $786 per household between the fourth quarters of 2024 and 2025. The increase was $52 in the lowest income fifth and $1,367 in the fourth fifth.
More on this: The anatomy of Canadian living standards →
Why it stands: The national change comprises $574 from compensation, $348 from net mixed income, $13 from property income received, $92 from lower property income paid, $85 from transfers received and −$326 from transfers paid. The six terms reconcile with no change residual at the national level.
The national average conceals markedly different changes across income groups. The Living Standards Brief now shows every group and each account contributing to its change.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new qualified distributional household accounts edition with matching groups and components.
Limit: These are nominal, unadjusted quarterly means per household, not real purchasing power or income per person. Income fifths are formed using equivalized disposable income; membership can change. The six terms are accounting contributions, not identified causes. Group rounding residuals are shown.
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Analysis update · Material change
Government and non-profit individual services accounted for 23.6% of Canada’s actual household consumption in 2024. Across provinces, the share ranged from 21.9% in Alberta to 29.5% in Manitoba; the territories had higher shares.
More on this: The anatomy of Canadian living standards →
Why it stands: The comparison uses 2024, the latest year common to every province and territory in this edition. It divides government and non-profit individual consumption by published actual consumption and shows the full components and changes from 2023.
Household spending alone leaves out a different share of consumption in each place. Including the source’s $194 million Outside Canada category reconciles the 2024 geographic totals.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new table edition with a complete, comparable common year for all regions.
Limit: These nominal aggregate shares do not measure service access, quality or typical household budgets and cannot rank living standards. Canada’s newer 2025 observation is separate. The issuer cannot allocate potential government and non-profit services to Outside Canada; published zero allocations do not establish absence of services.
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Analysis update · Material change
Active employer counts grew in 8 of 13 provincial and territorial series, 11 of 18 broad industry series and 2 of 5 size groups between June 2025 and June 2026. The national count rose by 622, or 0.07%.
More on this: Business dynamism: employers, credit and financial distress →
Why it stands: Each panel keeps a fixed set of source categories and compares the same month a year earlier. All 74 selected cells and their definitions were rechecked against current issuer responses on October 5.
The almost unchanged national count sits alongside differences across places, industries and employer sizes. The Business Dynamism Brief shows the complete comparison behind each breadth count.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next qualified employer-business release, with complete support and current definitions.
Limit: The panels count series, not unique firms or shares of Canadian businesses. Enterprises can appear in several geographic or industry cells; separate seasonal adjustment also prevents an additive national decomposition. These experimental estimates do not measure survival, productivity or causes.
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Analysis update · Material change
The Claims on the Grid Brief now includes a documentary timeline for JBL’s proposed connection.
More on this: Claims on the grid: what Ontario's connection record proves about its largest new loads — and why the register they sit in cannot be added up →
Why it stands: The new appendix brings together the named documents and distinguishes each source’s status. Its source passages and qualifications sit beside the existing engineering case.
Readers can follow the proposed infrastructure dependency without treating a planning milestone as completed delivery.
Trigger recorded for this reading: New qualified evidence that changes the dependency chronology or the existing engineering assessment.
Limit: This entry points to the analysis. The Brief contains the source facts, unresolved differences and engineering conditions; this update asserts no completed delivery or resolved discrepancy.
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Analysis update · Material change
People aged 65 or older account for 20.0% of Canada’s population in the July 1, 2026 estimates. There are 30.8 people in that age group per 100 aged 15–64.
More on this question: What happens as Canada ages? →
Why it stands: A single held edition of Statistics Canada’s age estimates supplies the history and the population denominators. The latest observation was released September 23, 2026.
Ageing now has a dedicated page showing the long-run change and the different paths of child and older-age ratios.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new age-estimate edition, or qualified evidence linking age to work or service use.
Limit: Working-age people are not the same as workers, and older people are not the same as retirees. The ratios do not price future care or determine pension solvency.
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Analysis update · Material change
The forecast comparison now separates one mature projection made before its target quarter from four estimates published during their quarters. Later path points and targets without outturns remain separate.
More on this question: How often do official forecasts come true? →
Why it stands: Five distinct Bank of Canada MPR paths are compared with the same held edition of expenditure-based real GDP, through 2026 Q2. Repeated captures are not counted as separate forecasts.
The restored forecast Question shows what can be compared without manufacturing a broad institutional success rate.
Trigger recorded for this reading: Another comparable forecast matures, or the matched GDP outturn edition changes.
Limit: The small set does not answer how often official forecasts come true in general. Calendar timing does not reconstruct the Bank’s information set; current held outturns can later be revised.
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Analysis update · Material change
CPP and QPP actuarial results support financing under the reports’ assumptions. That finding leaves a separate question: whether pension benefits and other household resources are enough to live on.
More on this question: Can Canada keep its pension promises? →
Why it stands: The page distinguishes revised and conditional CPP figures, Québec’s amended valuation, and the older OAS projection financed from general revenues.
Pension funding and retirement adequacy can now be followed as separate parts of one public question.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new actuarial valuation, independently established legislative change, or qualified household adequacy evidence.
Limit: Conditional report scenarios do not establish enactment. OAS figures remain projections from the valuation as at December 31, 2021, not observed spending or a new 2026 forecast.
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Correction · Material change
The source review corrects two earlier gaps: Statistics Canada supplies NEET and age-specific wage series. In the first quarter of 2025, the published NEET estimate for ages 15–29 in the provinces is 12%.
More on this question: Is it getting harder to start a working life in Canada? →
Why it stands: The new page qualifies education and work status, annual employee wages adjusted with matched annual CPI, and graduate cohorts observed two years after graduation.
Starting work can be examined through several measures instead of treating youth unemployment as the whole answer.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new comparable NEET, annual wage or graduate-cohort release, or qualified entry-level hiring evidence.
Limit: The sources describe different populations and periods. They do not measure year-long disconnection, entry-level vacancies, or the experiences of people graduating today.
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Analysis update · Material change
Mean quarterly net saving fell from $5,793 to $5,395 among households with a mortgage between Q4 2024 and Q4 2025. For renters it rose from $111 to $269.
More on this: The anatomy of Canadian living standards →
Why it stands: The same held household-account edition supplies tenure and age comparisons, with changes separated into income, consumption, pension entitlements and rounding.
The national saving average conceals substantially different household circumstances.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new comparable household-account edition or a method change.
Limit: These are group means in current dollars for unadjusted quarters. They do not measure liquid cash buffers, follow the same households, or identify why the differences arose.
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Analysis update · Material change
Public and non-profit services matter differently across the income distribution. The Q4 2024 to Q4 2025 comparison shows their allocated value alongside disposable income for every income fifth.
More on this: The anatomy of Canadian living standards →
Why it stands: The analysis uses the income-side social-transfers-in-kind component once, avoiding its duplicate appearance on the consumption side of the accounts.
Household living standards include services received as well as cash available to spend.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new comparable distributional household-account edition.
Limit: The assigned service values are modelled group means. They measure neither cash transfers nor the availability, quality or outcomes of care and education.
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Analysis update · Material change
Public capital per resident increased in 12 of the 13 provinces and territories between the end of 2024 and the end of 2025. Newfoundland and Labrador was the exception.
More on this: Infrastructure delivery: from commitments to the capital base →
Why it stands: Constant-dollar public capital stocks are paired with the population on January 1 immediately after each year-end. The page also shows investment relative to depreciation and the stock-flow residual.
The Infrastructure Brief now shows where the capital base is expanding relative to the population it serves.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new public-capital edition or revised matching population estimates.
Limit: Total public capital includes government business enterprises. Per-person levels and renewal ratios do not measure service quality, maintenance sufficiency or provincial-government performance.
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Evidence update · Material change
CER's monthly electricity trade file now includes July 2026. Over August 2025 through July 2026 it records 39.286 TWh exported and 24.703 TWh imported, leaving net exports of 14.583 TWh. On the same window, its exports are 0.03% below Statistics Canada's US deliveries and imports are 0.04% below purchased US receipts. The issuers remain separate measurements.
More on this: Canada's electricity expansion: the projected pace and the delivered record →
Why it stands: A directed October 4 capture adds 148 July rows. All 44,774 previously held rows remain exact; no row is removed. Statistics Canada's corresponding component response is unchanged from the September 29 release and already reaches July. Both comparisons can now use the same July endpoint.
The common evidence window advances one month. This change does not resolve a discrepancy between issuers or prove a sustained trend in trade, reliability or delivered capacity.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A newer monthly CER trade file or a revision of either issuer's matching monthly observations.
Limit: These are physical electricity volumes from two different respondent collections. The percentage denominator is Statistics Canada's corresponding US flow. The CER edition issue date is not established; the capture date is not substituted for it. Net exports are a volume difference, not a trade value or reliability measure.
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Evidence update · Material change
PHAC’s September edition reports 5,704 deaths in 2025 and 1,354 in January–March 2026. Its revised 2024 count is 6,669. The annual counts cross a change in definition and cannot establish a like-for-like decline.
More on this: Health: access, outcomes and the gaps between them →
Why it stands: The 2024 national total now incorporates completed, opioid-specific investigations for British Columbia and Quebec; their figures from 2025 cover broader drug poisonings. The latest four quarters, April 2025 through March 2026, remain preliminary. The previous June edition is retained alongside the new one.
The Health Brief separates the new partial year, revised history and encounter types. It also adds comparisons within the existing access surveys: 2024 unmet need was 9.7% among women+ and 7.9% among men+, a descriptive difference of 1.8 percentage points.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next PHAC quarterly edition, or a new annual access release.
Limit: January–March is a partial year. Deaths, hospitalizations, emergency visits and ambulance responses have different reporting coverage and must not be added. The access tables still end in 2024; their new presentation is not a new observation or evidence that access caused the harms.
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Evidence update · Material change
Households devoted 14.52% of income before interest payments to debt service in 2026 Q2, down from a revised 14.68% in Q1. A separate National Accounts table puts the Q2 saving rate at 3.7%, up from 3.3%.
More on this: The anatomy of Canadian living standards →
Why it stands: The September 11 debt-service release replaces the earlier Q1 reading of 14.75%. The newly added income account, released August 28, shows saving rising by $7.044 billion at seasonally adjusted annual rates: disposable income added $38.664 billion, consumption absorbed $30.688 billion and the pension adjustment subtracted $0.932 billion.
The Living Standards Brief now connects its output-per-person reading to household income, spending and saving. A separate annual panel shows government and nonprofit services accounting for 23.1% of actual household consumption in 2025.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next quarterly household and debt-service releases, or a revision to either vintage.
Limit: These national aggregates do not show which households gained. Dollar amounts are nominal; quarterly amounts are annual rates, not cash received during the quarter. Debt service uses income before interest, while the saving rate uses disposable income. The annual consumption panel includes services received in kind, and retains the issuer’s $1.2 million component discrepancy.
Reads onto the Big Question it bears on · the Brief it reads from
Analysis update · Material change
Public infrastructure investment was 1.47 times depreciation in 2025. The real capital stock per resident rose 2.83%, from about $16,822 to $17,299.
More on this: Infrastructure delivery: from commitments to the capital base →
Why it stands: The annual capital source was rechecked without a change in its values. The new calculation pairs year-end public capital with population at the following January 1. The larger capital stock added about $592 per resident; population growth subtracted $115. Those terms close to the measured change.
The Infrastructure Brief can now separate replacement of depreciated capital from growth in capital per resident. This extends the analysis of the existing annual accounts; it does not turn the unchanged project file into evidence of new completions.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next annual infrastructure accounts, population revision or changed project file.
Limit: The capital figures are constant-dollar accounting estimates for total public infrastructure. Depreciation is not a maintenance budget. Neither stock per resident nor the investment-to-depreciation ratio measures engineering condition, local adequacy or service quality.
Reads onto the Big Question it bears on · the Brief it reads from
Analysis update · Material change
The U.S. Exposure Brief now compares July 2026 trade by road, rail, air, water and other transport. Each mode shows exports and imports separately, against July 2025 and against its own world total.
More on this: Canada's exports and the United States: the record break, and where the difference went →
Why it stands: Statistics Canada’s September 3 transport-mode table supplies a new view of the same July reference month. The calculation preserves the customs basis and unadjusted nominal values instead of mixing them with the Brief’s separate balance-of-payments headline.
Readers can locate U.S. concentration by transport mode and flow. The new table gives a more detailed comparison without changing July into a post-duty observation.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next monthly trade release or a revision to the transport-mode series.
Limit: Transport mode does not identify the commodity, border crossing or place of production. Nominal changes combine prices and quantities. July 2026 precedes the August 22, 2026 effective date of the U.S. Section 338 duties. These comparisons cannot measure their effects.
Reads onto the Big Question it bears on · the US Exposure Monitor · the Brief it reads from
Correction · Material change
The climate page’s claim that no official observation existed after 2023 was too broad. The 2026 National Inventory Report includes gross emissions through 2024. The separate target-accounting series held here still ends in 2023.
More on this question: Is Canada on track for its climate commitments — and would the record show it? →
Why it stands: The page combined two different clocks: gross inventory emissions and emissions on the target-accounting basis, which includes the land-use accounting contribution. The wording now identifies each series and its reference year.
Readers can see the newer inventory observation without treating it as an update to a different accounting measure. The dated correction is also recorded on the Corrections page.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new official inventory or target-accounting release.
Limit: A later reference year on the gross inventory basis cannot simply replace the target-accounting value. Neither source measures emissions in the current calendar year.
Reads onto the Big Question it bears on · the Brief it reads from
Withdrawal · Material change
The refreshed July permanent-resident admissions record no longer reproduces the previously admitted selected-period comparison. That comparison is withdrawn; its earlier receipt remains available as a historical reading.
More on this question: Can Canada absorb its own population growth? →
Why it stands: The latest observations and revisions, taken together in the July-ending window, no longer meet the unchanged reporting threshold. This check does not separate the effect of revisions from the effect of advancing the window. No lower threshold or replacement comparison is admitted.
The current admissions totals and rolling-year figures remain available. The withdrawn comparison was held for inspection rather than foregrounded in a public product.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A later admissions release or an independently reviewed new comparison.
Limit: This withdrawal concerns one selected-period comparison. It does not establish a change date, a cause, or the absence of change in the admissions series.
Reads onto the Big Question it bears on · the Canadian Capacity Monitor
Evidence update · Material change
The federal deficit was $5.138 billion in April–July 2026, narrower by $2.650 billion than in the matched monthly series a year earlier. The current provincial outlooks and the CPP actuarial supplement are also incorporated on their separate dates and definitions.
More on this: Where the budget lands: the federal fiscal position, the promises against it, and what the audited record settles →
Why it stands: The federal comparison uses nominal, unadjusted monthly flows. Ontario’s first-quarter outlook retains a $13.844 billion deficit for fiscal 2026–27; Quebec’s March budget projects a $6.265 billion accounting deficit, or $8.612 billion under its Balanced Budget Act definition; Alberta’s first-quarter outlook projects a $2.041 billion surplus, compared with a $9.373 billion deficit in its budget.
The current fiscal panels advance beyond the older budget vintages. The June 8 CPP supplement separately tests a proposed 9.5% base contribution rate from 2027 against minimum rates of 9.22% for 2028–33 and 9.20% thereafter; this is an actuarial scenario conditional on the proposal, not a statement that it became law.
Trigger recorded for this reading: A new Fiscal Monitor, provincial fiscal update, quarterly government-finance release, audited Public Accounts or qualified change to the CPP proposal.
Limit: The federal four-month balance is unaudited and cannot settle fiscal 2025–26. Its prior-year monthly sum differs by $1 million from the Fiscal Monitor’s cumulative figure. The debt table still ends numerically in March; April–July cells are unavailable. Provincial forecasts use different concepts and vintages and are not a ranking. CPP results depend on the report’s assumptions.
Reads onto the Big Question it bears on · the Big Question it bears on · the Canadian Capacity Monitor · the Brief it reads from
Analysis update · Material change
The updated trade archive follows 34 issuer releases through September 3, 2026, with reference months through July. In that latest vintage, Canada’s 2025 merchandise exports total $3.52 billion less than the sum of the twelve first monthly estimates.
More on this: Canada's exports and the United States: the record break, and where the difference went →
Why it stands: The U.S. Exposure Brief’s companion trade-revision record now extends to 33 first-observable months. The separate GDP revision study extends to 139 releases through August 28: outside March–August 2020, first-to-latest monthly growth revisions average 0.142 percentage points in absolute terms, and 18 of 132 estimates reverse sign.
A new monthly figure is provisional. In the GDP sample, 15 of 42 initial movements smaller than 0.10 percentage points reverse sign, compared with none of 67 movements of at least 0.20 points. These historical comparisons help readers judge precision; they are not probabilities for the next release.
Trigger recorded for this reading: The next issuer-maintained GDP or trade revision table, or a revision that changes the study’s comparison or uncertainty.
Limit: The trade result covers seasonally adjusted, nominal exports to all countries on the balance-of-payments basis, not U.S. exports alone. GDP and trade are separate studies. Recent months have less time to revise, the latest values remain revisable, and months present before the archive began are excluded from first-estimate comparisons. The GDP study does not establish a dependable upward bias.
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