{"id":346841,"date":"2025-12-15T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346841\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:14:09","slug":"canadas-inflation-rate-stayed-flat-in-november-but-grocery-prices-grew-at-fastest-pace-in-nearly-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346841\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s inflation rate stayed flat in November but grocery prices grew at fastest pace in nearly 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s annual inflation rate was unchanged at 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for services grew at slower rate last month, Statistics Canada says<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765808048_590_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/author\/jenna-benchetrit-1.6075392\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Benchetrit<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Dec 15, 2025 8:35 AM EST | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"White text that reads 'Breaking News' on a red background.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765808048_485_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s annual inflation rate was unchanged at 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada said on Monday but grocery inflation reached its highest rate in nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>Food inflation rose 4.7 per cent on a yearly basis last month compared to 3.4 per cent in October, marking the largest increase since December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh fruit \u2014 especially pricier berries \u2014 drove the increase, as did &#8220;other food preparations&#8221; (a category that mostly includes processed foods). Coffee increased 27.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly expensive fresh and frozen beef (up 17.7 per cent last month) continued to weigh on inflation as cattle inventories shrink.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765808049_734_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorprofile-biography\">Jenna Benchetrit is the senior business writer for CBC News. She writes stories about Canadian economic and consumer issues, and has also recently covered U.S. politics. She was part of the team that won a silver Digital Publishing Award in best news coverage for covering the 2024 U.S. election. A Montrealer based in Toronto, Jenna holds a master&#8217;s degree in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. You can reach her at jenna.benchetrit@cbc.ca.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business Canada&#8217;s annual inflation rate was unchanged at 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada said on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-346841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}