Last week, Statistics Canada announced the country’s annual inflation rate had ticked up to 2.9 per cent. To gauge the impacts, CBC’s Shivani Joshi talked to people in New Westminster about the price hikes that shocked them most. To find out why these consumer goods and services have seen price increases, CBC’s Tanya Fletcher talked to Simon Fraser University economics associate professor Lucas Herrenbrueck.

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