Cost of living in Canada rises in June, to 2.4%

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 18 Juli 2014 | 22.39

The cost of living in Canada increased by 2.4 per cent in the year ended in June, an uptick of 0.1 percentage points from May's level and farther out on the high side of the range the Bank of Canada likes to see while making interest rate decisions.

Statistics Canada said higher prices for food, shelter and transportation were the main drivers for the increase. But all categories that the agency monitors were higher.

Prices for vegetables and meat at grocery stores were each up by more than nine per cent, on an annualized basis. The energy sector was also a standout on the upside in the past year: Gasoline by 5.4 per cent in the past year and natural gas by as much as 19.4 per cent. 

More taxes keep pushing up the price of tobacco. Cigarettes now cost an average of 10.3 per cent more than they did last June.

Across the country, Ontario posted the largest increase with an inflation rate of three per cent, while Quebec recorded the smallest, at 1.7 per cent.

Since bottoming out at 0.7 per cent in October, Canada's inflation rate has marched steadily higher in every month since.

"Inflation continues to come in strong," Scotiabank said in a research note after the data came out Friday. "We don't expect this theme to fade away."

The increase in inflation has been enough to cause the Bank of Canada to drop its warning on the dangers of low inflation from its four-times-a-year Monetary Policy Report earlier this week.


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