Aeroplan adds airlines and sire a drink falls flat: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

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Aeroplan brings other airlines on board

If you’re an Aeroplan member, you’ll be means to collect points with 3 some-more airlines in a few years. Edmonton-based Flair Airlines, Montreal-based Air Transat and Toronto-based Porter Airlines have agreed to turn elite partners starting Jul 2020. That’s when Air Canada skeleton on slicing ties with a faithfulness module (although a association tried shopping behind Aeroplan for $250 million).

Pot for pooches

Cannabis will be ratified for adults on Oct. 17, though researchers are also looking into pot-based products for your pets. Currently veterinarians can’t legally allot pot and there’s not adequate clinical justification to support it. Canopy Growth Corp. announced this week that it will embark on a Health Canada-approved clinical hearing to examine a use of cannabis products to provide animal anxiety.

Luke Byerly guides his 14-year-old beagle, Robbie, as a dog cooking his food treated with CBD oil during a mangle during Byerly’s pursuit as a technician during a veterinary hospital in easterly Denver. (David Zalubowski/Associated Press)

Addressing a EpiPen shortage

Is recycling injectors a answer to the EpiPen shortage? One researcher thinks so. Dr. Jackie Duffin, a hematologist and Queen’s University professor, says a life-saving drug epinephrine is accessible during hospitals, though it’s a injectors that are in brief supply. She suggests a complement where a injectors can be returned to pharmacies and reused.

Amid Health Canada warnings of an EpiPen shortage, one researcher suggests recycling injectors could be a solution. (Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press)

Buck a drink backfires

Buck a drink is behind in Ontario, though don’t design your favourite ale to cost any less. Doug Ford pronounced he would deliver legislation to reduce a smallest cost of a bottle or can of drink to $1 from $1.25 forward of a Labour Day weekend. But some qualification brewers contend it will harm their business by seeking them to eat a costs compared with obscure prices. As one Toronto brewer put it: “We resolutely trust that we unequivocally do get what we compensate for.”

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What else is going on?

Saudi Arabia’s inhabitant airline will stop drifting to Canada. In further to suspending Saudia flights to Toronto and finale educational sell programs with Canada, a dominion is reportedly offered off a resources in Canada and will stop shopping a wheat and barley.

Pension payments for Sears Canada retirees were cut by 30 per cent this week. After a stores sealed for good, a association left behind an underfunded grant plan that serves about 18,000 retirees. They’ll be going to justice to quarrel for some-more money.

Many Canadians are pushing after immoderate cannabis. Statistics Canada found scarcely 5 per cent of Canadians (about 1.4 million people) reported being in a automobile driven by someone who had consumed cannabis within dual hours of driving.

This week in recalls

This chicken could be infested with listeria; these oysters could be infested with salmonella; this ball toy could enclose an vulnerable turn of phthalates; these blending containers could poise a break hazard.

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