CA Median CPI y/y

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 3.2% year over year in May, up from a 2.8% gain in April. Higher prices for gasoline continued to drive the acceleration in the headline CPI in May. However, excluding gasoline, the CPI still rose at a faster pace year over year in May (+2.2%) compared with April (+2.0%). The CPI was up 1.0% month over month in May. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI increased 0.5%, largely due to a rise in the recreation, education and reading and transportation components. On a year-over-year ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.8% year over year in April, up from an increase of 2.4% in March. Higher energy prices, most notably gasoline prices, drove the acceleration in the headline CPI. The removal of the consumer carbon levy in April 2025, which resulted in monthly declines for gasoline and natural gas, has now fallen out of the 12-month movement, putting upward pressure on the all-items CPI. Excluding gasoline, the CPI rose at a slower pace year over year in April (+2.0%) compared with March (+2.2%). Moderating ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.4% year over year in March, up from an increase of 1.8% in February. Driving faster price growth in headline inflation were higher prices for energy, especially gasoline, due to the conflict in the Middle East. Excluding gasoline, the CPI rose at a slower pace year over year in March (+2.2%) compared with February (+2.4%). There remained lingering base-year effects from the GST/HST break which ran from December 2024 to February 2025, resulting in downward pressure on headline inflation in ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.8% on a year-over-year basis in February, following a 2.3% increase in January. The slowdown in the all-items CPI on a year-over-year basis was largely driven by a monthly increase in prices in February 2025, when the GST/HST break ended partway through the month, and as a result, consumers paid more for affected products. This month-over-month increase fell out of the 12-month price movement in February 2026, resulting in a decelerating base-year effect on headline inflation. The most notable ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.3% on a year-over-year basis in January, following a 2.4% increase in December. The gasoline price index was the largest contributor to deceleration in headline inflation, with a larger decline in January compared with December. Excluding gasoline, the CPI rose 3.0% in January, matching the increase in December. Indexes with year-over-year movements impacted by the temporary GST/HST break in January 2025 continued to put upward pressure on the year-over-year all-items increase in January 2026. Of ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.4% on a year-over-year basis in December, following a 2.2% increase in November. The year-over-year acceleration in the all-items CPI was driven by the temporary Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) break that began on December 14, 2024. This resulted in monthly declines for the exempt goods and services, which have now fallen out of the year-over-year movement, putting upward pressure on headline CPI growth. Moderating the acceleration in the headline CPI was a year-over-year ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.2% on a year-over-year basis in November, matching the increase in October. Year over year, prices for services rose at a slower pace in November compared with October. Lower prices for travel tours and traveller accommodation, in addition to slower growth for rent prices, put downward pressure on the all-items CPI. Offsetting the slower growth in services on an annual basis were higher prices for goods, driven by price increases for groceries as well as a smaller decline for gasoline prices. ...