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Food prices continue to soar, which push the cost of Christmas dinner even higher. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Christmas comes but once a year, which is probably for the best given how much more expensive holiday dinner with the family will be this weekend. A hypothetical basket of food items that go into a traditional Christmas dinner costs nearly 12 per cent more than a year ago, based on inflation data for November released by Statistics Canada this week. That tops the 10.3-per-cent rise in overall food prices and far exceeds the all-items consumer price index, which eased slightly to 6.8 per cent, from 6.9 per cent the month before. The Christmas dinner basket is the average inflation rate of items such as poultry, potatoes, bread and rolls, butter, jams and preserves (for the cranberry crowd) and fresh and canned vegetables, with some potato chips and ice cream thrown in for snacks and dessert. Statistics Canada doesn’t specifically break out turkey prices in its monthly ...

Nunavut’s energy corporation says cybersecurity experts are investigating after it was targeted in a cyberattack over the weekend. The Qulliq Energy Corporation says its network was breached, but it’s too early to determine whether the attackers accessed customer information. It says anyone affected will be notified as the investigation continues. Power plants in the territory continue to operate as usual, but computer systems and the corporation’s customer care and administrative officers are currently unavailable. The Nunavut government’s IT system was the target of a cyberattack in 2019. The Northwest Territories Power Corporation was hit by a ransomware attack in 2020. https://www.tausiinsider.com/nunavut-energy-corporation-targeted-in-cybersecurity-attack/?feed_id=323374&_unique_id=63e11c8b04046