| Date | Statistic | For | Current Month | Previous Month |
| Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Markit Canada Manufacturing PMI 9:30 a.m. | Apr | Manufacturing in Canada decreased to 45.30 points in April from 46.30 points in March. | The index declined to 46.3 from February's 47.8. |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | IVEY Purchasing Managers Index: 10:00am | Apr | The index registered at 47.9 in April, down from a 51.3 reading in March, and way off the 63.0 level in Aoril 2024. | The index registered at 51.3 in March, well off from a February level of 55.3, and from 57.5 in March 2024 |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Canadian International Merchandise Trade: 8:30am | Mar | In March, Canada's merchandise exports decreased 0.2%, while imports were down 1.5%. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade deficit with the world narrowed from $1.4 billion in February to $506 million in March. | In February, Canada's merchandise exports decreased 5.5%, while imports were up 0.8%. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade balance with the world went from a surplus of $3.1 billion in January to a deficit of $1.5 billion in February. |
| Friday, May 9, 2025 | Labour Force Survey: 8:30am | Apr | Employment was little changed in April (+7,400; +0.0%) and the employment rate declined 0.1 percentage points to 60.8%. The unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 6.9%. | Employment fell by 33,000 (-0.2%) in March and the employment rate declined 0.2 percentage points to 60.9%. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 6.7%. |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Building Permits: 8:30am | Mar | In March, the total value of building permits issued in Canada decreased by $549.4 million (-4.1%) to $12.9 billion. | In February, the total value of building permits issued in Canada increased by $371.3 million (+2.9%) to $13.1 billion. |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | New Motor Vehicle Sales: 7:30am | Mar | There were 189,259 new motor vehicles sold in Canada in March 2025, increasing 9.4% from one year earlier. This gain was largely attributable to sales of new light trucks, which rose 13.5% from March 2024. Over the same period, sales of new passenger cars declined 10.9%. | New motor vehicle sales totalled 125,402 units in February 2025, a decrease of 8.1% compared to the year prior. This decrease was driven by a year-over-year decline to units sold in Ontario (-13.0%) and Quebec (-22.5%). |
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 | CREAstats - MLS Sales: 8:30am | Apr | The number of sales recorded over Canadian MLS® Systems was unchanged (-0.1%) between March and April 2025, marking a pause in the trend of declining activity since the beginning of the year. | National home sales fell 4.8% month-over-month.
Actual (not seasonally adjusted) monthly activity came in 9.3% below March 2024. |
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Wholesale Trade: 8:30am | Mar | Wholesale sales (excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain) rose 0.2% to $86.5 billion in March. | Wholesale sales (excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain) rose 0.3% to $85.7 billion in February. |
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Monthly Survey of Manufacturing: 8:30am | Mar | Manufacturing sales declined 1.4% in March, mainly due to lower sales in the primary metal and petroleum and coal product subsectors. Conversely, the furniture and related product subsector posted the largest monthly gain. | Manufacturing sales rose 0.2% in February, mainly on higher sales of primary metals and chemical products. Meanwhile, sales in the petroleum and coal product subsector declined the most. |
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 | Housing Starts: 8:15am | Apr | The total monthly SAAR of housing starts for all areas in Canada increased 30% in April (278,606 units) compared to March (214,205 units). | The total monthly SAAR of housing starts for all areas in Canada decreased 3.3% in March (214,155 units) compared to February (221,405 units). Actual housing starts were down 12.5% year-over-year in centres with a population of 10,000 or greater, with 14,924 units recorded in March, compared to 17,052 in March 2024 |
| Friday, May 16, 2025 | Canada's International Transactions in Securities: 8:30am | Mar | Canadian investors acquired $15.6 billion of foreign securities in March, mainly in U.S. bonds. Meanwhile, foreign investors reduced their exposure to Canadian securities by $4.2 billion, marking a second consecutive monthly divestment. | Canadian investors acquired $27.2 billion of foreign securities in February, led by a record investment in US equity securities, which more than offset the significant divestment in these instruments in January. Meanwhile, foreign investors reduced their exposure to Canadian securities by $6.5 billion. |
| Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Consumer Price Index: 8:30am | Apr | The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.7% year over year in April, down from a 2.3% increase in March. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI fell 0.2% in April. | The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.3% on a year-over-year basis in March, down from a 2.6% increase in February. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI was unchanged in March. |
| Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | New Housing Price Index: 8:30am | Apr | The index declined 0.4% in April, compared to an unchanged reading in March. | The index was unchanged in March, on a month-to -month basis, compared with a 0.1% rise in the prior-year month. |
| Thursday, May 22, 2025 | Industrial Product Price Index: 8:30am | Apr | In April, the Industrial Product Price Index declined 0.8% month over month and increased 2.0% year over year. | In March, the Industrial Product Price Index rose 0.5% month over month in and increased 4.7% year over year. |
| Thursday, May 22, 2025 | Raw Materials Price Index: 8:30am | Apr | The Index fell 3.0% month over month and declined 3.6% year over year. | The Raw Materials Price Index declined 1.0% month over month in and grew 3.9% year over year. |
| Friday, May 23, 2025 | Retail Trade: 8:30am | Mar | Retail sales increased 0.8% to $69.8 billion in March. Sales were up in six of nine subsectors and were led by increases at motor vehicle and parts dealers. | Retail sales decreased 0.4% to $69.3 billion in February. Sales were down in four of nine subsectors and were led by decreases at motor vehicle and parts dealers. |
| Thursday, May 29, 2025 | Payroll Employment, Earnings and Hours: 8:30am | Mar | --- | The number of employees receiving pay and benefits from their employer—measured as "payroll employment" in the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours—decreased by 49,000 (-0.3%) in February, following an increase of 14,400 (+0.1%) in January. On a year-over-year basis, payroll employment was up 124,300 (+0.7%) in February. |
| Friday, May 30, 2025 | GDP: 8:30am | Mar | --- | Real gross domestic product was down 0.2% in February, driven by decreases in both goods-producing and services-producing industries. |
| Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | BoC Interest Rate Decision: 10:00am | June | --- | The Bank of Canada held its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.75% on Wednesday, ending a run of seven consecutive cuts. |
