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Telecom sales tactics

Have we ever felt pressured by employees offered TV, internet and wireless services? The CRTC is mouth-watering we to lift your complaints online or during a open hearing starting Oct. 22. Earlier this year, a dark camera review prisoner dubious sales strategy used by a association offered Bell services doorway to door. Since then, hundreds of business have reached out about not receiving what a peddler promised.

More from Marketplace: Misleading sales strategy for Bell services.

The Bay drops Ivanka Trump

You won’t find Ivanka Trump’s dresses during a Bay for that most longer. The association will be dropping a wardrobe line from a dialect stores and has already private a code from a website. HBC didn’t contend either an ongoing protest opposite stores carrying Trump family products factored into a decision, though pronounced it pulled a line due to miss of sales.

Condos rush to anathema weed

If we devise on smoking during home after weed is legalized, we competence be out of fitness if we live in a condo or apartment. Across a country, condo play are scrambling to order manners banning pot smoking inside units, on balconies and in common areas. The new manners could array a medicinal pot smoker opposite a neighbour who complains about decay of their vital space.

Condominium companies and unit buildings opposite a nation are rushing to order manners that would anathema pot smoking inside units, on balconies and in common areas. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)

Extra price on cellphone bills

If we have a cellphone devise with Bell, Rogers or Telus, we competence wish to demeanour a small closer during your wireless bill. The complement entrance price — typically $6.95 — was forsaken by a large 3 in 2009 after confronting foe from new providers who didn’t assign it. But business who didn’t quit to a new plan still compensate it. A class-action lawsuit alleges companies misled business into meditative a price was a supervision charge.

More from Marketplace: How to get a improved plan (2016). 

What else is going on?

U.S. drink drinkers compensate some-more as aluminum tariffs strike cans. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on unfamiliar steel and aluminum are lifting prices for a operation of Wisconsin-made goods that use steel for product containers.

Can hothouse gas emissions be reduced by creation cows and other animals reduction gassy? Livestock are obliged for about 14.5 per cent of tellurian hothouse gas emissions and scientists are perplexing to breed animals that belch less, adjusting diets so they furnish reduction methane.

The final U.S. Blockbuster thrives on good patron service. The owners of a Bend, Ore., plcae haven’t updated their hardware given a ’90s — including a computer complement that uses floppy disks.

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