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Edition: December 2-6, 2019
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Infoline Highlights for the Week of December 2-6
Labour Force Survey - The unemployment rate in British Columbia was 5.0% in November, up 0.3 percentage points from October and up 0.6 percentage points from 12 months ago. Overall in November, the labour force contracted (‑10,700) and there were fewer jobs (‑18,200).
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Exports - The value of B.C. origin exports fell 5.9% year-to-date to October, compared to the same ten-month period a year earlier. There were declines in exports to most of B.C.’s largest trading partners, including the United States (-4.9%), Mainland China (-1.3%), Japan (-14.6%), South Korea (-4.1%), the European Union (-9.7%) and Taiwan (-11.8%).
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Gross Domestic Product - Canadian real gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.1% (seasonally adjusted) in September, the third month in a row of 0.1% gains.
GDP in goods-producing industries edged up 0.1%. Construction (+0.6%) and mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (+0.2%) were up...
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Homicide - Police services in British Columbia reported 89 homicides during 2018, making for a homicide rate of 1.78 per 100,000 population. This was down notably from 2017, when there were 119 homicides and a rate of 2.42. B.C.’s homicide rate has been generally trending downward since the 1990s, with mostly slight year-to-year fluctuations in the rate since then.
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- B.C. origin exports of ‘other’ energy products have soared in the last year, mostly due to increased shipments of crude oil and liquefied propane.
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Did You Know
The average price of eggs received by Canadian farmers at the end of 2018 is $1.63, with Newfoundland ($1.94) and B.C. ($1.82) paying the highest amount. The number of eggs available for consumption in 2018 was about 21 dozen per person, an increase of 30.4% from 2008.

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Headlines
- The unemployment rate in B.C. was higher in November than the month before.
- The value of B.C.'s exports dropped between January - October, compared to the same period in 2018.
- Canada's GDP increased in September for the third month in a row.

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