If you thought the price of food was persistently, painfully high, you are not alone.
On global markets, the price of grains, vegetable oil, dairy and other agricultural commodities has fallen steadily for months.
But the relief hasn't made it to the real world of shopkeepers, street vendors and families trying to make ends meet.
U-S economist Joseph Glauber says that's because of energy costs, which are embedded in so-called core inflation.
Officers are recommending a charge of assault with a weapon and one count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Police say a man and his girlfriend were on SkyTrain at about 1 a.m. on April 15th when they say the suspect stabbed and injured the man.
Global Affairs Canada has provided very little information on efforts to get Canadian citizens, or even its own staff, out of Sudan. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provided a limited update Monday afternoon at a photo-op with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Ottawa.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada says more than 100,000 of its staff remain on strike, some of whom are expected to move their picket lines Monday to strategic locations more likely to have an impact on the federal government.
They say the elderly woman, who was shoved to the ground by the assailant, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Images from security video released by the R-C-M-P also appear to show that the man has a full beard.
Mounties in Surrey, B-C, say they are looking for witnesses and dashcam footage after a car crashed and rolled over this weekend. They say the vehicle was travelling north on 192nd Street on Saturday night when it went off road into a ditch, causing the vehicle to roll.
The Port Moody Police Department says it received multiple 911 calls after a man was reportedly pulled into a vehicle in the city's brewery district on Murray Street around 10 a.m. on Wednesday.