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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I can't quite put my finger on it there, but it feels like he might be pushing some sort of agenda.
Posting the Yahoo link to perhaps downplay that this was written for The Toronto Sun, who may also be pushing agendas, was a nice attempt.
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Didn't even have to look at the link to know it was Sylvain "The Food Professor" Charlebois with his usual nonsense. At least he's not pushing raw milk in this article, like has had a habit of doing recently.
Most egregious is using February's food inflation number without context. Yes it's high at 7.3% compared to February 2025, but that is almost entirely due to the base effects stemming from the GST holiday that ended in February 2025. Because February 2025's baseline had GST excluded from almost all food (including from restaurants), prices naturally saw a big jump in March 2025 when GST was again applied and that's still showing up in the annual number until March's data comes in.
So he's using a one-time statistical anomaly to make food inflation look worse than it is. Over the last 10 months (which excludes the GST pause), food inflation has only been about 4% annualized.