Infographic 1
Building permits, January 2020

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The title of the infographic is "Building permits, January 2020"

It includes multiple components such as a map, tables, pictographs and images.

Text on the infographic, as well as map data are as follows:

Figure 1 - Month-to-month change in total value of building permits (seasonally adjusted)

This is a map of Canada showing the month-to-month percentage changes for total building permit value. Green arrows represent an increase, while red arrows represent a decrease.

Building permit values in Canada up 4.0% compared to December 2019. Newfoundland and Labrador up 57.6%, Prince Edward Island down 8.5%, Nova Scotia up 15.9%, New Brunswick down 30.3%, Quebec down 16.4%, Ontario down 4.5%, Manitoba up 23.6%, Saskatchewan up 28.2%, Alberta up 2.4%, British Columbia up 52.1%, Yukon up 453.9%, Northwest Territories down 64.0%, Nunavut too unreliable to be published.

Figure 2 - Building permits for residential and non-residential construction in Canada (seasonally adjusted)

Residential: a month-over month increase of 12.7%.

Non residential: a month-over-month decrease of 7.8%.

Single family dwellings: total value was $2,369 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 7.0% or $155.0 million.

Multi-family dwellings: total value was $3,411 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 17.1% or $496.8 million.

Industrial: total value was $682 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 6.8% or $43.5 million.

Commercial: total value was $2,051 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 0.8% or $15.5 million.

Institutional: total value was $732 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 30.5% or $321.9 million.

Source: Table 34-10-0066-01: Building permits, by type of structure and type of work.