December 2021 year-to-date retail trade was up by 11.8% over the same period in 2020. 

• Sub-sectors that posted increases: New car dealers (7.3%), Used car dealers (48.8%), Gasoline stations (20.7%), Furniture and home furnishings stores (17.9%), Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (23.3%), Health and personal care stores (5.5%), Clothing and clothing accessories stores (22.8%), Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores (14.0%), Grocery stores (4.0%), Beer, wine and liquor stores (5.0%), General merchandise stores (14.0%), and all other (9.8%). 
• Sub-sectors that posted decreases: Electronics and appliance stores (-1.9%).

With limited vehicle supply, December 2021 year-to-date new motor vehicle (units) sales were down -1.4% from December 2020. New minivans, sport-utility vehicles, light and heavy trucks, vans and buses sales were down -2.7% , however new passenger cars sales were up 11.2%.

December 2021 year-to-date restaurant receipts were up 18.2% over the same period in 2020.

• Within restaurant receipts, all categories posted increases including Special food services (27.6%), Drinking places (alcoholic beverages) (9.2%), Full-service restaurants (18.3%), and Limited-service eating places (18.1%). 

December 2021 year-to-date manufacturing sales were up by 43.1% over the same period in 2020. 

• Sub-sectors that posted increases were: Food manufacturing sales (38.8%), Machinery manufacturing sales (23.4%), Fabricated metal product manufacturing sales (6.9%), and All other Manufacturing sales (53.2%).

December 2021 year-to-date wholesale trade was up 15.8% over the same period in 2020.

• Sub-sectors that posted increases were: Farm product merchant wholesalers (26.5%), Agricultural supplies merchant wholesalers (17.7%), Machinery, equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers (17.8%), Building material and supplies merchant wholesalers (12.3%), and all other (16.6%).
• Sub-sectors that posted decreases were: Food, beverage and tobacco merchant wholesalers (-13.5%).

Total International merchandise exports were up 13.6% year-to-date January 2022 over January 2021.

• Sub-sectors that posted increases were: Energy products (88.5%), Metal ores and non-metallic minerals (70.4%), Basic and industrial chemical, plastic and rubber products (24.4%), Industrial machinery, equipment and parts (37.7%), Motor vehicles and parts (4.4%), Aircraft and other transportation equipment and parts (146.9%), and Special transactions (27.8%). 
• Sub-sectors that posted decreases were: Farm, fishing and intermediate food products (-25.1%), Metal and non-metallic mineral products (-50.0%), Forestry products and building and packaging materials (-14.5%), Electronic and electrical equipment and parts (-42.9%), and Consumer goods (-25.7%).

Consistent with strong construction activity in non-residential sectors, year-to-date February 2022 construction employment was up by 5,900 positions or 15.8% from the same period in 2021.

February 2022, total year-to-date housing starts were down by -148 units or -28.4% over the same period in 2021. 

• Year-to-date increases: row (1 units or 2.5%).
• Year-to-date decreases: singles (-2 units or -1.2%), semi-detached (-18 units or -60.0%), apartment and other types (-129 units or -44.6%).

January 2022 year-to-date building permits were up 53.5% over the same period in 2021. 

• Sub-sectors that posted increases: (limited) to industrial (585.8%), commercial (74.3%), institutional and governmental (399.2%).
• Sub-sectors that posted decreases: residential permits (-11.1%).

February 2022 year-to-date employment in Information, culture and recreation was up 5,300 positions or 39.6% over the same period in 2021.

July 2021 year-to-date average weekly earnings in Information and cultural industries were up 6.6%.

The Q4 2021 Provincial population was up 0.23% or 2,703 persons over 2020 Q4 to 1,180,867. Contributing to population growth was a modest bounce-back in international immigration to 3,076 from 1,769 in the previous quarter and a higher than expected natural increase (births less deaths). Net inter-provincial migration has been negative every quarter since Q2 2013. 

After decreasing by -5.2% in 2020, Saskatchewan’s real GDP expanded by 3.8% in 2021. According to the Conference Board of Canada it in December 2021 forecast, the province's real GDP is forecasted to grow by 4.3% in 2022.

With the post pandemic recovery in full swing in most jurisdictions, on March 2, 2022, the Bank of Canada raised its benchmark rate to 0.5 percent. Inflation is now being viewed as widely entrenched. This rate hike is up from the floor of 0.25 percent it held for much of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the central bank’s first-rate hike since October 2018 and, as expected, was followed by a further 0.5 percent on April 13, 2022 to 1 percent, acknowledging that the Ukraine conflict has added further inflationary pressures.