Grocery prices alone climbed 27.1 per cent between July 2020 and July 2025, according to Statistics Canada. Photo by Getty Images/iStockphoto

Stalling wages and rising prices have many Canadians feeling like they are financially worse off than they were five years ago, according to a survey by Harris & Partners Inc.

All told, 89.4 per cent of respondents indicated they are finding it harder to manage everyday essentials, such as food, housing and utilities, and 61 per cent said they are financially worse off than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.

“These findings show just how much the cost-of-living crisis has taken hold,” Harris & Partners chief executive Joshua Harris said in a release. “When nearly nine in 10 Canadians are saying even the basics have become harder to afford,

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