BC Stats Infoline
Edition: April 8-12, 2019
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Major partnership with the Netherlands signed to better support B.C. food security
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Community gaming grants improve services, support not-for-profits
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Japanese Canadian legacies honoured as part of redressing historical wrongs
Services
Interior communities awarded gaming grants to improve services, support not-for-profits
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Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of April 8-12
Natural Resources - The value of Canada's timber, energy, and mineral resource assets nearly doubled (+91.7%) in 2017, reaching $715 billion. The increase was due to climbing prices for oil and minerals, and marks a substantial recovery from 2016, when the value of the nation’s natural resources declined.
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Price of New Housing - The cost of new housing in the province’s capital city was higher in February than in the same month last year. The 1.2% increase in Victoria was the result of climbing housing prices (+1.5%) and land value (+0.6%).
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Rail Transportation - Coal remained by far the leading commodity transported by rail both into and out of the province in 2017. Coal accounted for 48% of all commodities leaving B.C., while lumber, wood chips and pulp were far behind.
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Building Permits - The value of building permits decreased 11.5% (seasonally adjusted) in February from the previous month. There were increases in permits for industrial (+38.3%), institutional (+32.1%), and commercial (+6.5%) buildings and a decrease in the value of residential (‑21.0%) projects.
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- Overall revenues for rail transportation in Canada jumped +7.6% to $14.9 billion in 2017 due to increased freight and passenger volumes.
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Did You Know
About 60% of Canadian children under the age of six participate in some kind of formal or informal childcare (not including occasional babysitting or kindergarten), with B.C. children’s participation in child care slightly under the national average at 57.7%.
Source: Statistics Canada
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Headlines
- The value of Canada's natural resource assets almost doubled in 2017.
- In February, the price of new housing in Victoria increased over February 2018.
- The value of building permits in B.C. dropped in February from the month before.

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