An early estimate by Statistics Canada pointed to a contraction of 0.2 per cent in actual GDP for June, whereas development within the second quarter was estimated at an annualized price of 1 per cent.
The lower in June was attributed to the wholesale commerce and manufacturing sectors, although the company cautioned the numbers had been preliminary and mentioned they might be up to date.
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Here’s what else we’re watching …
Heat and wind anticipated to worsen Hay River hearth
A wildfire official says the city of Hay River will likely be in danger over the following few days with robust winds and excessive temperatures making a harmful scenario even worse.
About 70 per cent of the Northwest Territories’ inhabitants, together with the three,500 inhabitants of Hay River, have been out of their houses for practically two weeks.
Wildfire data officer Mike Westwick says whereas some good progress has been made within the Yellowknife space, the chance in Hay River stays extreme, with winds anticipated to choose up and the warmth to rise with very low ranges of moisture.
Westwick says there’s the potential for some severe challenges.
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Higher COVID vaccine uptake urged this fall
Federal scientists will likely be monitoring world analysis to find out the effectiveness of up to date vaccines towards the latest COVID-19 variant, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada say.
Canada’s first identified case of the Omicron variant BA.2.86 was detected this week in British Columbia because the nation turned the seventh on this planet to report its presence.
Health Canada is presently reviewing functions for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s new mRNA vaccines, developed towards the dominant XBB.1.5 variant forward of a vaccination marketing campaign set for the autumn.
As of this week, there have been solely 13 sequences of the extremely mutated variant BA. 2.86 obtainable to investigate throughout six different international locations — 4 in Denmark, three within the United States, two in Portugal, two in South Africa, one in Israel, and one within the United Kingdom, Health Canada and PHAC mentioned in an e mail.
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Poll exhibits almost half of Canadians residing paycheque to paycheque
A brand new ballot from Leger suggests the cost of residing disaster has almost half of Canadians simply getting by every month, and it’s hitting younger individuals more durable.
Forty-seven per cent of individuals polled say they’re residing paycheque-to-paycheque, and 36 per cent say their family funds are in poor form.
More than half of the respondents who’re underneath age 35 say they’re paycheque-to-paycheque, and almost 50 per cent of them say they’re anxious about shedding their job within the subsequent 12 months.
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What occurs while you give homeless individuals $7,500?
A University of British Columbia researcher says there’s a stark distinction between public notion and the truth of how homeless individuals spend money.
Jiaying Zhao led a research that analyzed spending habits of fifty homeless individuals residing in Vancouver who got a one-time money switch of $7,500 with no strings connected.
Zhao says the money boosted recipients’ spending on hire, meals and clothes, however not on so-called temptation items, resembling medication, alcohol and cigarettes.
The research discovered recipients spent 99 fewer days homeless over the following 12 months and 55 extra days in secure housing in contrast with those that didn’t obtain the money.
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Ontario prof a part of group supporting moon mission
An Ontario college professor has been named a part of the NASA group that can develop the lunar floor science plan for the primary individuals to walk on the moon in additional than 50 years.
Gordon Osinski is the only Canadian on the geology group lately introduced by NASA for the Artemis three mission.
The group will plan the science duties to be carried out by astronauts anticipated to land close to the south pole of the moon as early as December 2025.
NASA’s Artemis missions will take people again to the moon and discover extra of the lunar floor with the aim of utilizing the findings to tell an eventual mission to Mars.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept. 1, 2023.
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