Canada s annual inflation rate held steady at 6.9 per cent last month. After declining for several months, Statistics Canada said the rate of inflation was unchanged in October from September as gas prices went up.
Most Canadians who pay for natural gas or electricity can expect their bills to rise by between 50 and 100 per cent on average this winter, according to one energy analyst.
The mass shift online brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a boom of so-called sextortion scams, new data from Statistics Canada suggests.