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Prairie permit value shifts in the latest Construction Pulse
Calgary and Edmonton again trade the heavyweight belt on building permit value, while smaller prairie centres show the fastest year-over-year acceleration.
By OpenStats research desk
The latest Construction Pulse report is out, and the prairie capitals are back at the top of the permit-value table. Calgary and Edmonton again account for a large share of Alberta's direct-tier construction value in the newest Statistics Canada reporting month, while Winnipeg and Saskatoon show up among the cities with the sharpest year-over-year acceleration when the prior-year base is large enough to trust.
What changed this month
OpenStats ranks municipalities on total construction value under permit and on year-over-year momentum, using only direct live readings from Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Seed and regional proxy rows stay out of the national totals so a missing local table does not invent a false spike. That is the same gate used on the permit value ranking and the permit momentum ranking.
Month to month, the heavyweight belt between Calgary and Edmonton often flips on a single large non-residential filing or a cluster of residential starts. The pulse report breaks out residential and non-residential shares so readers can see whether the move came from housing or from commercial and institutional work.
Where to dig in
Open the building permits atlas for city pages with permit counts, value, and housing starts. Hometown charts on this hub sit under cities; Alberta readers can start with Calgary or Edmonton, then compare prairie neighbours on the same month.
Methodology for how live readings become rankings is on the methodology page. Named StatCan tables are listed under data sources.