Insights and Stories on GDP

Shopping cart in the refrigerator aisle of the grocery store.

Canada’s retail sales shrink as tariffs bite, June expected to improve

Jul. 24, 2025 at 11:06 am CDT

Canada's retail sales shrank by 1.1 per cent in May as consumers curtailed car purchases and spent less at supermarkets, convenience stores and on alcohol, data showed on Thursday.

Alberta potatoes chip in $2.9 billion for Canadian economy

Jul. 4, 2023 at 4:45 pm CDT

By Jeff Melchior

Federal carbon tax rises despite opposition, pandemic

Apr. 6, 2020 at 4:54 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Ukrainian lawmakers vote to lift ban on sale of farmland by 2020

Nov. 13, 2019 at 11:21 am CST

By Pavel Polityuk

Election 2019: Ag groups want the parties to pay attention

Sep. 18, 2019 at 8:07 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

StatsCan to add marijuana economic impact to GDP data

Nov. 21, 2017 at 7:17 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — As Canada gears up to legalize recreational marijuana, the country’s statistics agency said on Tuesday it will begin measuring the economic impact of the current illegal use and production of the drug and add it to growth data. Statistics Canada said it will begin tallying the […]

By Reuters

Agriculture contributed C$111.9 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2016

Nov. 10, 2017 at 5:05 pm CST

Winnipeg | CNS – A new report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released Friday has pegged agriculture as contributing C$111.9 billion to Canada’s GDP in 2016, which accounted 6.7 per cent of the country’s total GDP. The annual report entitled An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and AgriFood System, provides […]

By MarketsFarm Team