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Pollster Janet Brown has been asking Albertans a variety of questions about their personal experiences and political preferences, as part of regular polling commissioned by CBC News since 2018.
Brown said the question about monthly expenses stands out against the rest of the poll results and represents a significant change over a relatively short period of time.
Brown believes that’s related to the cost of housing, which has been rising rapidly in Alberta amid the recent population boom.
He graduated university with a degree in astrophysics in 2017 and remembers the struggle in trying to get established in a career at that time, when rents were cheaper and inflation was far lower.
Mark Parsons, chief economist with ATB Financial, said inflation has started to ease across Canada, but Albertans are still being hit by increases in shelter costs due to some unique circumstances in this province.
Brown also said she’s cognizant that “people are struggling” is a common theme in the news but believes the latest polling results show something significant has changed among Albertans.
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