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April 16[edit]

What is the average increase in grocery prices, cost of living, etc. in Ontario, Canada from April 2022 to today?[edit]

I left Toronto in April 2022 to go to university in China, but I miss my home city, and I want to return, but I'm not sure how much more expensive living has become, and I want to get a more WP:NPOV view on the topic and don't want to read one-sided, biased rants on Reddit about Loblaws and Galen Weston. Could someone please cite WP:RS statistics of how much grocery prices, cost of living, etc. have increased since I left? I hope my home country is still the way I remember it and hasn't gotten downhill too much since I left. I want to have something to make me look forward to returning. Félix An (talk) 08:40, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics Canada publishes this sort of information on its Consumer price index portal. I think the reports are mainly annual but you can look at the tables or multiply 2 years. I think Consumer Price Index, monthly, not seasonally adjusted (Table: 18-10-0004-01) has the data you want but it's being updated today. The one year change in Ontario was 2.4% in February. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 08:54, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

and 5.1% in Feb 2023 for a two year total of 7.6%. The StatCan website will also surely have indices of wage growth so you can see how wages have risen by comparison. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 08:58, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Average weekly earnings seem to have increased by 6.7% over the two-year period Jan 2022-Jan 2024 (Feb 2024 figures are not available). Of course, how closely these averages reflect what you'd experience depends what sector you work in and what you spend you money on. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 08:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is mostly economic and statistical nonsense. Real wages are stagnant and inflation is higher than 10%. Viriditas (talk) 23:08, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]