A security guard walks past the Bank of Canada Wednesday September 6, 2017 in Ottawa.The country's annual pace of inflation sped up to 2.2 per cent last month to rise above the central bank's ideal target of two per cent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
March 23, 2018 - 5:52 AM
OTTAWA - Canada's national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):
— Newfoundland and Labrador: 1.7 per cent (1.1)
— Prince Edward Island: 3.0 (1.6)
— Nova Scotia: 2.3 (1.4)
— New Brunswick: 2.7 (1.8)
— Quebec: 1.5 (1.3)
— Ontario: 2.1 (1.8)
— Manitoba: 2.4 (2.1)
— Saskatchewan: 2.9 (2.5)
— Alberta: 2.2 (1.4)
— British Columbia: 2.8 (2.1)
News from © The Canadian Press, 2018