Higher prices for basic groceries like cabbage and spaghetti are running at three and four times the rate of general inflation, new Statistics Canada figures showed yesterday. Details of price spikes for specific foods followed cabinet’s celebration of the last Consumer Price Index report as “good news for Canadians,” said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

“Inflation in Canada is down to 3.4 percent, the lowest rate in nearly two years,” Minister Freeland tweeted June 27. “This is good news for Canadians and good news for the Canadian economy!”