Murray Wood: Police officers in the line of fire need more support from Ottawa.
Two RCMP officers were wounded in Melville, and officers have been killed in Montreal and Toronto. Murray Wood says the ...
OTTAWA — Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):
— St. John’s, N.L.: 1.8 per cent (1.5)
— Charlottetown-Summerside: 2.2 (2.1)
— Halifax: 2.2 (1.9)
— Saint John, N.B.: 2.2 (2.2)
— Quebec: 1.9 (2.0)
— Montreal: 2.8 (2.9)
— Ottawa: 2.7 (2.5)
— Toronto: 1.9 (1.8)
— Thunder Bay, Ont.: 1.0 (1.1)
— Winnipeg: 2.5 (2.5)
— Regina: 1.7 (1.8)
— Saskatoon: 1.5 (1.8)
— Edmonton: 2.3 (2.1)
— Calgary: 2.1 (2.0)
— Vancouver: 1.9 (2.3)
— Victoria: 2.1 (2.1)
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