{"id":305459,"date":"2026-02-27T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305459\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:39:08","slug":"canada-stands-alone-among-g7-with-a-shrinking-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305459\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada stands alone among G7 with a shrinking economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!WB_X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8ca6998-dff1-4332-a2bd-e2b9135af798_1200x630.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/c8ca6998-dff1-4332-a2bd-e2b9135af798_1200.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/c8ca6998-dff1-4332-a2bd-e2b9135af798_1200x630.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:630,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1474921,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.junonews.com\/i\/189388980?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8ca6998-dff1-4332-a2bd-e2b9135af798_1200x630.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Source: Google Gemini\/Adobe<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s economy shrank at the end of 2025, according to Statistics Canada, making it the only G7 nation to see its economy contract instead of grow.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s overall real gross domestic product (GDP) by expenditure shrank by an estimated<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/260227\/dq260227a-eng.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 0.2 per cent<\/a> in the last quarter of 2025, since quarter three of last year, according to a Statistics Canada study released Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Google Gemini\/Adobe Canada\u2019s economy shrank at the end of 2025, according to Statistics Canada, making it the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-305459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}