What is your personal rate of inflation? It’s probably different than the rate that gets reported by Statistics Canada every month. Generally speaking, when people refer to the inflation rate, they’re ...

The Bank of Canada defines inflation as “a persistent rise in the average level of prices over time.” The government-provided inflation metric is called the consumer price index, or CPI. But how is ...

A cashier at a west end Toronto grocery store peered intently at a customer’s bill on a late July morning. She was looking for something specific — not an error, but proof that the price of an item ...