The Bank of Canada says it feared being too slow to react to sticky inflation ahead of the decision to keep its key interest rate steady earlier this month.
In its summary of deliberations, the central bank says it considered raising interest rates from the current 4.5 per cent.
The Bank of Canada appears confident that inflation will fall to three per cent by mid-year.
But it's concerned that the return to two per cent inflation may take longer as the cost of services remains elevated.
Council voted 5-4 in favour of keeping the federal force, as Mayor Brenda Locke and the four councillors elected under her Surrey Connect banner made good on an election promise to end the transition to the Surrey Police Service.
The Government of B.C. is investing as much as $33 million in 2022-23 to create the Rural Economic Diversification and Infrastructure Program (REDIP), which will support projects that promote economic diversification, resilience, clean-growth opportunities and infrastructure development.
The cash is believed to have been dropped sometime in early September 2022. Coquitlam RCMP is also encouraging the public to make police reports if they lose a large sum of cash.
The senior was headed to catch a bus around 5:30 p.m. when a stranger pushed her down, threatened her with a knife, and demanded money. The victim began to scream and the suspect fled without getting any cash.
Dr. Kieran Moore's advice came as pediatrics hospitals have been overwhelmed in recent weeks by a massive influx of very sick patients. COVID-19 is still circulating, but the larger threats to young children at the moment are influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, he said, noting that capacity in children's hospitals is at 100 per cent.
The agency, which had previously announced it was importing acetaminophen and ibuprofen to be distributed to hospitals, said the new retail supply should help families struggling to treat their sick children.