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Canada: inflation falls, but prices rise

TORONTO – The annual inflation rate falls, but that’s not good news as food prices continue to rise. This is what emerges from the latest report on the consumer price index by Statistics Canada, which shows that inflation fell slightly, in September, to 6.9 per cent (from 7% in August), but it is solely due to the drop in the price of gas, which fell by 7.4% in September.  (more…)

Covid “swing” in Ontario: hospitalizations start to rise again

TORONTO – More deaths and more hospitalizations: we have often called it a “swing”, that of the daily data on the pandemic, and so it is today: on Tuesday, Ontario confirmed another 11 deaths – which bring the total to the province, from the beginning, to 13,083 – against 2 yesterday, and 1,345 infected patients, a sharp increase from 1,122 in the previous 24 hours. 

Monday’s data, however, reflected a still incomplete census as 10% of hospitals do not report data over the weekend and only update it as of Tuesday. And, in any case, hospitalizations have decreased by 13% compared to the same day last week, when 1,555 people with Covid-19 were hospitalized. (more…)