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Here's a list of May inflation rates for selected Canadian cities

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 24 Jun, 2025 03:10 PM
  • Here's a list of May inflation rates for selected Canadian cities

Canada's annual inflation rate was 1.7 per cent in May, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):

— St. John's, N.L.: 0.2 per cent (0.2)

— Charlottetown-Summerside: 0.8 per cent (0.8)

— Halifax: 1.8 per cent (1.7)

— Saint John, N.B.: 1.2 per cent (0.2)

— Quebec City: 1.9 per cent (2.4)

— Montreal: 2.0 per cent (2.5)

— Ottawa: 2.1 per cent (2.0)

— Toronto: 1.7 per cent (1.7)

— Thunder Bay, Ont.: 0.9 per cent (1.5)

— Winnipeg: 1.9 per cent (2.1)

— Regina: 2.0 per cent (2.1)

— Saskatoon: 2.0 per cent (2.1)

— Edmonton: 1.6 per cent (1.5)

— Calgary: 1.8 per cent (1.6)

— Vancouver: 2.3 per cent (2.2)

— Victoria: 2.1 per cent (1.9)

— Whitehorse: 3.1 per cent (3.6)

— Yellowknife: 1.7 per cent (2.7)

— Iqaluit: 1.1 per cent (1.0)

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