Cost-of-living dashboards
Official Statistics Canada data, with the government of the day shaded on every chart.
Inflation
Consumer Price Index for Canada. Higher slope means prices rising faster.
Housing prices
New Housing Price Index for Canada.
Real wages
Average hourly wage divided by CPI — what an hour of work actually buys over time (indexed).
Immigration & population
Quarterly population estimate for Canada, including non-permanent residents.
Housing starts vs population
New home construction against population growth.
GDP per capita
Monthly real GDP divided by the population estimate.
Money flow
A Sankey diagram of published dollars flowing from the federal total into departments and programs.
Spending over time
Quarterly totals with the government of the day shaded — elections at every band boundary.
Report card
How each metric changed under each government.