Gas prices across Canada climbed an average of 9.4 cents per litre of regular fuel over the past seven days, the biggest weekly gain so far in 2024. Cities in Ontario and Quebec booked eye-watering 20 cent-plus gains, while prices were virtually flat for drivers in the Western and Maritime regions.

The average cost per litre of regular gasoline in cities nationwide rose to $1.806 from $1.712 between April 11 and April 18, according to data firm Kalibrate. Chicoutimi, Que. saw the biggest increase at 26.7 cents per litre, followed by Gatineau, Que., and North Bay, Ont. The Greater Toronto Area was hit with widespread gains above 15 cents per litre.

On Thursday afternoon, En-Pro International posted on X that “gas prices spiked 14 cents overnight, the largest single-day jump since early 2022.”

“The steady build in U.S. crude inventories, combined with the reluctance of the Fed to lower interest rates, which would increase gasoline demand, should neutralize the impact of the conflict in the Middle East,” En-Pro chief petroleum analyst Roger McKnight wrote in a blog post.

“The refining industry will come back to normal levels by mid-June, so supply will balance demand, and prices should fall soon after the U.S. Memorial Day launch of summer.”

Rising gas prices was the top factor behind Statistics Canada’s slightly higher annual inflation reading for March. Year over year, the agency found gasoline prices increased 4.5 per cent last month, following a 0.8 per cent rise in February.

“Higher global prices for crude oil stemmed from supply concerns amid geopolitical conflict and continued voluntary production cuts, leading to higher prices at the pump,” StatCan said on Tuesday.

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(All figures in CAD cents)

SOURCE: KALIBRATE • All figures in CAD cents

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A St. John’s woman says she won’t be paying many more visits to Tim Hortons, after an email from the coffee chain led her to believe that she’d won a new boat — when she hadn’t won anything at all.

“I go to Tim’s quite a lot, seven days a week. I’m afraid now that’s going to change to no days a week,” Carol Evans told CBC News on Thursday.

Evans said she received an email from Tim Hortons on Wednesday afternoon while on a break from her work as an licensed practical nurse.

The email recapped the prizes she’d won in the annual Roll Up the Rim to Win contest, but there was one extra prize included — a brand new boat and trailer, valued at about $55,000. 

Unfortunately, the excitement was over by the time she got home from work.

“I was just so excited, really excited. I thought I really won a boat and a trailer, $55,000 worth, and to find out at five to six, I had an email from them come in telling me it was a technical error,” she said.

“I don’t get my boat and I don’t get my trailer.”

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Tim Hortons told this St. John’s woman she won a boat and a trailer. It was a mistake

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Carol Evans of St. John’s was elated when she got an email from Tim Hortons saying she won $55,000 worth of prizes. Another email from the coffee giant a few hours later, telling her it was an error, had her crushed — and fuming.

Evans said her win was the talk of her co-workers.

“I work with about a hundred people in the run of a day, and more than that outside the OR, and everybody was so happy for me. They couldn’t believe it, I finally won something in my life,” she said.

“But to find out a few hours later I didn’t, it was disappointing, very disappointing.… I cried, it was so sad.”

Although she may not have taken it out on the water, Evans said winning would have meant a lot to her, like helping fund her retirement after more than five decades in nursing.

“I could have sold the boat and trailer and had some money, paid off some bills, probably could have, who knows, retired after 55 years of work,” she said.

In an emailed statement to CBC News on Thursday, Tim Hortons said the message was meant to show what each customer won over the course of the contest  — and the boat was included by mistake.

“We developed a Roll Up To Win recap email message with the best intentions of giving our guests a fun overview of their 2024 play history.

“Unfortunately there was a human error that resulted in some guests receiving some incorrect information in their recap message.”

The company didn’t disclose how many people across the country received the email, but CBC News spoke to another person in western Newfoundland who got it.

Others in Edmonton, Hamilton and Brampton, Ont., were also told they’d won the boat.

By Wednesday afternoon, a Facebook group had formed with more than 200 people expressing outrage about the mistake and threatening to file lawsuits.

Tim Hortons apologizes

Tim Hortons sent the affected customers a letter, telling them to disregard that winning email and that it was sent as a result of “technical errors.” 

“Unfortunately, some prizes that you did not win may have been included in the recap email you received. If this was the case, today’s email does not mean that you won those prizes,” the letter read.

“We apologize for the frustration this has caused and for not living up to our high standards.”

It’s a familiar story for Tim’s, however, as last year, its app mistakenly informed users they’d won $10,000.

Evans said two years of big mistakes just isn’t fair. She’d like to see Tim Hortons move away from the Roll Up to Win smartphone app and back to paper cups.

“It’s not fair to the public who spend their hard-earned money to go into Tim’s and buy their coffee every day, buy their lunch, and then think they won a prize and all of a sudden you learn, three hours later, you didn’t win a prize, and it’s not fair.”

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