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Edition: November 14, 2016
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Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of November 7 - 11
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Annual, 2015 - British Columbia’s economy (chained GDP, in 2007 dollars) expanded 3.3% in 2015, posting the strongest growth among the provinces. Ontario (+2.5%), New Brunswick (+2.3%) and Manitoba (+2.2%) also made solid gains during the year.
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Price of New Housing - In September, contractors’ selling prices for new homes (both house and land) in British Columbia climbed 5.2% compared to September 2015. This was the 18th consecutive month of year-over-year increase in the New Housing Price Index (NHPI), dating back to April 2015.
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Smoking - In 2015, just over one in eight (13.0%) Canadians aged 15 years and older reported smoking either daily or occasionally, down from 14.8% in 2013. The smoking rate for youths aged 15 to 19 was 9.7% in 2015 and young adults aged 20 to 24 continued to have the highest rate, at 18.5%.
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Building Permits - The value of building permits issued by B.C. municipalities slipped 13.3% (seasonally adjusted) in September. The downturn was due in part to less planned activity in the non-residential (-16.9%) sector.
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Housing Starts - The number of urban housing starts (in areas with at least 10,000 population) in British Columbia dipped 44.9% (seasonally adjusted at annual rates) in October. The decline in total urban housing starts was due primarily to a sharp downturn in the number of new apartment housing projects (-67.6%).
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B.C. urban housing starts dipped 44.9% in October.
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Did You Know
Lest we forget: Over 115,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders (Newfoundland didn't become a province until 1949) died while serving during the First and Second World Wars.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada

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Headlines
- B.C. posted the strongest GDP growth of all the provinces in 2015.
- In September, the cost of new housing rose again, for the 18th consecutive month.
- Smoking in Canadians 15 years old and older in 2015 is down from 2013.

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