Grocery store owner Gilles Robin works on his fruits vegetable display on Nov. 28 2006 in the Breakeyville, Que.JACQUES BOISSINOT
Provinces and territories
Canada's national inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces and territories. (Previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland and Labrador 2.9 (2.1)
- Prince Edward Island 1.9 (1.2)
- Nova Scotia 3.4 (3.0)
- New Brunswick 2.2 (1.6)
- Quebec 2.2 (2.1)
- Ontario 2.5 (2.9)
- Manitoba 2.1 (2.0)
- Saskatchewan 2.2 (2.2)
- Alberta 1.2 (1.0)
- British Columbia 1.8 (2.3)
- Whitehorse, Yukon 1.3 (1.8)
- Yellowknife, N.W.T., 1.5 (2.1)
- Iqaluit, Nunavut 1.1 (1.1)
Cities
The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples (Previous month in brackets):
- St. John's, N.L., 2.9 (2.3)
- Charlottetown-Summerside, 1.9 (1.2)
- Halifax, 3.2 (2.8)
- Saint John, N.B., 2.2 (1.6)
- Quebec, 2.1 (2.0)
- Montreal, 2.0 (2.0)
- Ottawa, 2.7 (3.1)
- Toronto, 2.4 (2.6)
- Thunder Bay, Ont., 2.4 (3.0)
- Winnipeg, 2.0 (1.9)
- Regina, 2.4 (2.3)
- Saskatoon, 2.0 (2.0)
- Edmonton, 1.1 (1.2)
- Calgary, 1.1 (0.7)
- Vancouver, 1.8 (2.4)
- Victoria, 1.6 (2.2)