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Edition: June 25, 2018
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Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of June 18 - 22
Consumer Price Index - British Columbia’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.7% (unadjusted) in May compared to the same month of the previous year. The rate of inflation was up 0.5% from April 2018.
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Retail Sales - Retail sales in British Columbia bucked the national trend in April, climbing 1.1% (seasonally adjusted). This marked the third consecutive monthly increase.
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Employment Insurance - The number of British Columbians receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits dropped 3.2% (seasonally adjusted) in April, to 42,100. Nationally, EI beneficiaries inched down 3.4%, to 453,060.
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Food Services and Drinking Places - Revenues generated in British Columbia’s food service and drinking places industry shrank by 1.7% (seasonally adjusted) in April, led by a decrease in sales in full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places. Sales for the month were higher in drinking places and special food services establishments.
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Wholesale Sales - Sales by wholesalers (seasonally adjusted) in British Columbia went up in April to reach $6.6 billion, a 1.6% increase compared to the previous month. The monthly increase was led by building material and supplies merchant wholesales (+8.0%).
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Visitor Entries - In April, B.C. welcomed over 688,000 non-resident travellers (seasonally adjusted), of which almost three quarters were from the United States. Non-resident traveller entries to Canada through British Columbia went down (0.3%) compared to the previous month.
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B.C.'s wholesale sales in April rose 1.6% over the month before, in part due to increased building material and supplies merchant wholesales (+8.0%).
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Did You Know
Single-detached houses account for 44.1% of the close to 1.7 million residential properties in B.C. (as opposed to 64.2% of almost 4.8 million residential properties in Ontario). Just over half (52.9%) of individual resident owners are women, and 54.3% of owners are aged 55 and over.
Source: Statistics Canada

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Headlines
- B.C.'s CPI increased slightly in May from the month before.
- Retail sales in B.C. rose in April for the third month in a row.
- The number of EI recipients in B.C. dropped in April.

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- Consumer Price Index
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