This is an interactive Canadian inflation tracker, showing price changes for various items (housing, food, transportation, etc.) from 1978 to 2024 — all based on data from Statistics Canada.<p>We can use this tool to answer questions like:<p>- How much higher are today’s prices versus pre-pandemic prices?<p>- What has the average inflation rate been over the last 1 / 5 / 10 years?<p>- Which specific price items — housing, food, transportation, etc. — have had the highest price inflation?<p>- By how much would Canadian prices need to drop to get back to “normal”?<p>From what I typically see in the media, inflation storylines are too focused on short-term price comparisons (changes versus the previous month or previous year). This Canadian inflation tracker seeks to show the cumulative change in prices over longer time periods — for example, comparing today’s prices for housing and food versus prices before the COVID-19 pandemic.<p>---<p>The charts were built with chart.js