After growing comfortable with a long stretch of relatively low and mostly stable inflation since the mid-1990s, Canadians today are grappling with a worrisome and unexpected surge in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The pressure on prices started to build early last year, and inflation has steadily gained momentum since then. By April 2022, total CPI inflation in Canada stood at 6.8
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