Statistics Canada published Building Permits numbers for the month of June that rose 2.1%, beating expectations of a decline of 4.7%. Earlier, the office released employment information for the month of July. The Canadian net change in employment came in at 7.1K over the month of July, worse than the expected 15K. Still the unemployment rate edged to its lowest result since January of 2009 at 7.2% from 7.4% the previous month.