Rent, mortgage costs still concerning for Albertans despite cooling inflation

Canada’s annual inflation rate has reached the central bank’s two per cent target for August, but many consumers in Alberta are still feeling the pinch of high costs for shelter, rents and mortgages. The ease of price pressures was primarily helped by a drop in the prices of gasoline, telephone services, clothing and footwear, but mortgages and rents continue to cool at a tepid pace, maintaining their relentless rise. That’s a concern for Calgarians like Kiesha Mastrodimos who