BANFF, Alta. – Preventing current high inflation levels from becoming embedded into the public’s expectations is key if the country is to avoid falling into recession, former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said Thursday. Poloz, who was head of the bank for[...]

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OTTAWA – Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 7.0 per cent in August largely driven by the price of gasoline falling, but the cost of groceries continues to climb. In its latest monthly consumer price index (CPI) report, Statistics Canada said grocery[...]

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OTTAWA – Bank of Canada deputy governor Paul Beaudry said in hindsight, governments and central banks should have withdrawn stimulus measures earlier as economies recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, which likely would have kept a lid on inflation. In[...]

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