Residential Construction Investment 2nd Quarter 2015
Residential construction (unadjusted for seasonality) in Nova Scotia for the second quarter 2015 was $542.9 million, 6.3 per cent higher than the 2nd quarter in 2014. New dwellings construction increased by 22.0 per cent (+$27.3 million) due to an increase in apartments (+$31.3 million, +107.6%) while singles were up 0.8 per cent (+$0.6 million). Renovations, […]
Nova Scotia 2015 Labour Market Assessment Report
Key stakeholders in the Industrial-Commercial-Institutional (ICI) construction industry gathered today for the official release of the Nova Scotia 2015 Labour Market Assessment (LMA) Report. Read the Report
StatsCan Addresses Recession
Statistics Canada is reporting that GDP fell in the second quarter, confirming fears that the economy was in recession for the first half of 2015. StatsCan says the economy contracted at an annual pace of 0.5% in the second quarter of the year which is slightly less than analyst estimates and also lower than the […]