The inflation rate fell to 2.8 per cent in June, but Statistics Canada is also reporting grocery prices shot up 9.1 per cent from year-ago levels.
That's even more than prices rose in May.
B-M-O economist Benjamin Reitzes (RIGHT'-sis) says the report was mixed.
But he thinks there are enough encouraging signs in it to make the Bank of Canada pleased with the direction inflation is headed.
2 people have been shot and 1 person is dead. The victim is a young man linked to the Brothers Keepers. Passenger side of the BMW ridden with 13 bullet holes.
British Columbia, meanwhile, is monitoring its second case of the vaccine-induced clotting condition. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the man in his 40s is stable.
Mike Farnworth met with police representatives Thursday following a recent spate of shootings that have left gang members dead or injured on streets, in mall parking lots and at Vancouver's airport.
Sgt. Judy Bird of the Abbotsford Police Department says the 55-year-old was a resident of the Fraser Valley community.
Government data is showing reduced community transmissions as more people receive their first doses of vaccine, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday.
The comments came Thursday during a roundtable discussion on anti-Asian hate crimes hosted by the Vancouver Police Board.