/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9257/all en /newsroom/channels/news/experts-canadian-inflation-hits-new-three-decade-high-337881 <p>Inflation hit a new three-decade high in January, heaping more pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time since the pandemic started. The consumer price index rose 5.1 per cent in January from a year earlier, accelerating from December’s pace of 4.8 per cent and marking the first time since 1991 that inflation has surpassed 5 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. It was the 10th consecutive month that inflation has exceeded the Bank of Canada’s target range of 1 per cent to 3 per cent.</p> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:07:52 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 286063 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nearly-38-million-macdonald-campus-farm-management-and-technology-program-267450 <div><span>The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Laurent Lessard, and Geoffrey Kelley, MNA for Jacques-Cartier and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, announced today on behalf of the Government of Quebec $3,772,000 in funding over three years for the Farm Management and Technology Program (FMT), a three-year academic and practical college program offered on the Macdonald campus and taught by the staff of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.</span></div> <div> </div> Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:55:10 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26836 at /newsroom