The latest NAR snapshot is 2025-12 (December 2025). Statistics Canada releases NAR roughly every 6 months, so the next snapshot is expected around June–July 2026.
What to do
- Check the NAR catalogue page for a new release: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/46-26-0002/462600022022001-eng.htm
- Add the new snapshot to
NAR_SNAPSHOTS in src/config.py:
"2026-06": {
"url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/46-26-0002/2022001/202606.zip",
"reference_date": "2026-06-01",
},
- Add the period to
NAR_SNAPSHOT_ORDER.
- Run the pipeline:
postal-codes refresh --source nar
postal-codes generate-static
Context
NAR is the primary source. Each new snapshot triggers a diff against the previous one, producing new change events (added, removed, city_changed, csd_changed, location_shifted) that feed into the published output on GitHub Pages.
The latest NAR snapshot is 2025-12 (December 2025). Statistics Canada releases NAR roughly every 6 months, so the next snapshot is expected around June–July 2026.
What to do
NAR_SNAPSHOTSinsrc/config.py:NAR_SNAPSHOT_ORDER.Context
NAR is the primary source. Each new snapshot triggers a diff against the previous one, producing new change events (added, removed, city_changed, csd_changed, location_shifted) that feed into the published output on GitHub Pages.