Inflation Comes for Atlantic Canada’s Car Owners
Owning a car is more expensive in Atlantic Canada than anywhere else in the country. It’s also harder to live without, since fewer transportation alternatives exist.
Owning a car is more expensive in Atlantic Canada than anywhere else in the country. It’s also harder to live without, since fewer transportation alternatives exist.
HALIFAX – The employees of Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods have unionized in what they describe as a landslide victory. The announcement was made earlier this month in a tweet from SEIU Local 2, the union representing Pete’s employees. SEIU Local 2 has more than 18,000 members from across Canada and represents workers from essential […]
The not-for-profit sector is not immune from ballooning CEO pay. Overall compensation in the rest of the sector also isn’t keeping up with inflation.
Despite the overall cooldown, grocery prices continue to soar and outpace overall inflation.
Canada’s economy added just 22,000 jobs last month following increases of 69,000 in December and 150,000 in January.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 5.9 percent last month, down from 6.3 percent in December. But despite the continued slowdown, food prices continued to rise at a much faster pace than overall inflation.
Real GDP grew 0.1 percent, similar to what the nation’s economy saw in the previous five months.
It is the eighth consecutive increase as the central bank tries to grapple with high inflation.
Twenty-seven percent of people in Atlantic Canada say they don’t make enough money to cover all their expenses.
The Consumer Price Index stood at 6.3 percent last month, down from 6.8 percent in November.