The value of Canadian wholesale trade was unchanged in July as gains in sectors including machinery and motor vehicles were offset by declines in the food industry, data from Statistics Canada showed...
The reading fell short of economists’ forecasts for a gain of 0.7 per cent... In volume terms, wholesale sales were down 0.4 per cent in July.
As recessions go, Canada just experienced about as mild of a downturn as it gets in the first half of the year, and is once again in growth mode, economists from TD Bank said in a new forecast...
Not great most economists would say, but not bad either.
According to the Global Dynamism Index (GDI), a global study by the Economist Intelligence Unit for Grant Thornton, Canada ranks 9th among the 60 largest economies in the world based on 22 indicators across five growth areas: business operating environment, technology, labour market, market growth and financing environment.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has provided the latest version of the policy directive D-98-08: Entry Requirements for Wood Packaging Material into Canada (effective date in the online document to be updated shortly).
Subscribers may be interested in the following, published on 23 September 2015 in Part II of the Canada Gazette.
Domestic Substances List — Order 2015-87-10-01 Amending Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
SOR/2015-216
