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Infoline Highlights for the Week of September 9-13
Movie Theatres - Despite the increased popularity of movie streaming, B.C.’s motion picture theatre industry registered an operating profit margin of 18.0% in 2018, a notable increase of nearly two full percentage points from the last reporting year (16.1% in 2016). While expenses, on average, were up (+4.2% to $235 million), the revenue generated increased at a faster rate (+6.6% to $287 million).
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Energy Usage - Energy use in Canada increased (+1.8%) in 2017, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were also higher (+1.5%). At nearly a quarter (24%) of total energy consumption, the residential sector remained the largest energy user in 2017, though this share was down slightly from the previous year (-0.1 percentage points).
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Price of New Housing - Relative to the same month of 2018, the cost of new housing in B.C.’s three largest cities continued to decrease in July. Home builders in Vancouver received 1.2% less for their projects, and Victoria’s housing price index was down 1.8%. The main drop came from declines in new housing prices (-2.3% in Vancouver and -3.0% in Victoria).
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- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada increased by 1.5% in 2017, although B.C. produced the lowest per capita household GHG emissions that year.
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Did You Know
The number of babies born in Canada to non-resident parents increased 13% in 2018-2019 from the same period the year before, with the vast majority of these births occurring in B.C. and Ontario. B.C.'s Richmond Hospital had the highest percentage of non-resident births, 23% of total births there.
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Headlines
- B.C.'s movie theatre industry saw operating profit margins rise between 2016 and 2018.
- In Canada, both energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2017.
- The price of new housing in B.C.'s three largest cities decreased in July from July 2018.
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