Canada’s inflation rate dips to 2.5% in July, lowest since March 2021

Canada’s inflation rate dips to 2.5% in July, lowest since March 2021

Canada’s annual inflation rate dropped to 2.5 per cent in July  — down from 2.7 per cent in June, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The national statistics agency said inflation increased at the slowest pace in more than three years, since March 2021. The deceleration was attributed in part to lower prices for travel as compared to a year earlier, when travel … Read more

Every year, StatsCan tweaks how it calculates inflation. What to know about this year’s changes

Every year, StatsCan tweaks how it calculates inflation. What to know about this year’s changes

Whenever you pass through the cash register at a grocery store, the price of everything in your shopping cart — from discounted chicken to strawberries on promotion — is collected by the retailer and sent to Statistics Canada. That’s just one of several ways the data agency tracks the spending reflected in its consumer price index, or CPI: Canada’s most comprehensive … Read more