Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Fri. July 11th, 2025

What happened to those “short-term” price increases from the pandemic?   From 2021 to 2023, Canadians were told that prices jumped largely because of supply-chain bottlenecks, government spending on income supports and other pandemic-related issues.   If so, shouldn’t those temporary increases disappeared once the pandemic subsided and those glitches were repaired?   While inflation may have since been tamed, Statistics Canada’s monthly inflation figures show that the pandemic-era price hikes survived. Are consumers getting ripped off by not seeing prices slide back again?...