Prices Soar In Canada: World:
Prices took.-their largest jump in more^than three years in Canada last month for a 1.1 percent gain that brought the annual rate of increase of CanadaÛªs consumer price index to 8.8 percent,' Statistics Caiiada said yesterday.</br></br>* Higher food prices led the CPI from 168.9 in February to 170.8. In the iijdex, 1970 prices equal 100.</br></br>Meanwhile; inflation maintained its slow pace in West Germany last month with a 3.1 percent increase on an annual basis over March 1977, the Federal Statistical Office reported yesterday.</br></br>And prices in the Western worldÛªs industrialized nations increased by 0.7 percent in February, which was a faster pace than during January but slower than during -February' 1977, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.</br></br>The 1977 trade figures showed that t\yo-way trade for the year totalea $1.8 billion compared with 1976Ûªs total turnover of $2.5 billion.