Who are you gonna trust: the government report, or your own lying eyes? No one I know outside of tech will ever be able to afford a home, but the TV says things are fine, so...
StatCan has a "Personal Inflation Calculator" where you can enter your own numbers/budget and find a number that may be closer to what's happening around you:
The CPI is a national average for an average basket of goods; your local conditions may be different. It has zero connection to your personal budget.
In Canada the headline national number was 2.8%, but the province of Alberta (as a 'whole') had 4.2%, while Manitoba had 0.9%:
* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240319/dq240... (Chart 5) * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc... * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=181000... (searchable by province)
StatCan has a "Personal Inflation Calculator" where you can enter your own numbers/budget and find a number that may be closer to what's happening around you:
* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015...
Remember: the CPI is a model of reality, and not reality itself. It is used as a guide, and to use the words of [Alfred Korzybski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski):
* [The map is not the territory.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation) * https://fs.blog/map-and-territory/
Or those of statistician George Box:
* [All models are wrong but some are useful.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)