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Consumer prices up slightly in Manitoba

By: Murray McNeill

18/11/2009 10:54 AM | Comments: 1

WINNIPEG - Inflation made a return visit to Manitoba in October, according to new Statistics Canada figures released today.

Consumer prices were 0.1 per cent higher in the province last month than in October 2008, the federal agency said. That means the basket of consumer goods and services monitored each month by Statistics Canada — things like food, clothing, gasoline, and homeowner’s insurance — cost 0.1 per cent more than they did a year earlier.

In September they cost 0.6 per cent less, which means Manitobans were experiencing deflation rather than inflation.

Canada’s annual inflation rate was also 0.1 per cent in October. That followed a 0.9 per cent decline in consumer prices in September.

Two big contributors to Manitoba’s cost-of-living increase in October were a 9.6 per cent increase in the cost of cablevision and satellite services and an 8.5 per cent jump in the cost of homeowners’ maintenance and repairs.

There was also less downward pressure from gasoline prices.

murray.mcneill@freepress.mb.ca

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