Inflation slowed to 1.7% in July, but food prices rose at faster pace
Posted on: Aug 19, 2025 18:23 IST | Posted by: Cbc
rising prices cooled in July, thanks mostly to ease at the gaseous state pumps, but Statistics Canada said foodstuff and shelter costs were accelerating last month.
The annual rate of inflation fell to 1.7 per cent in July, the agency said Tuesday, down from 1.9 per cent in June.
Costs rose 3.4 per cent annually at grocery stores, up from 2.8 per cent in June. Confectionery and coffee products saw big price jumps in July, which Statscan said were tied to tough growing conditions in countries that produce cocoa and coffee beans.
Prices for fresh grapes, meanwhile, were up nearly 30 per cent, driving the overall cost for fresh fruit up 3.9 per cent in July from 2.1 per cent in June.
The agency also says prices for gasoline were down 16.1 per cent year-over-year, thanks largely to the removal of the consumer carbon price.
Gas prices were also down 0.7 per cent on a monthly basis following an increase in production from oil-exporting countries and a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Shelter inflation sped up to three per cent last month from 2.9 per cent in June, marking the first increase in that category since February 2024.
Rent price growth picked up in July, particularly in Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia. Lower mortgage costs are still moderating the overall increase in shelter inflation.
Prices for natural gas, meanwhile, fell to a lesser degree than in June, thanks mostly to higher costs in Ontario.
The Bank of Canada will be parsing the inflation figures as it prepares for its next interest rate decision on Sept. 17.
Statscan said the central bank's preferred measures of core inflation, which tend to strip out more volatile price changes, held steady around three per cent in July.
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