Nationally, Inflation rose 0.5 per cent in September on a year-over-year basis, up from the August increase of 0.1 per cent.
Statistics Canada says prices were up in six of the eight components it tracks. It recorded an increase in tuition fees as students headed back to school but there was a 4.1 per cent drop in clothing and footwear prices as the pandemic changed back-to-school shopping patterns. Economists on average had expected a year-over-year increase of 0.4 per cent.
PEI’s inflation rate in September was an even 0-percent.
