Airline luggage fees and mislabelled seafood: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

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Increased container fees

It’s going to cost we some-more to check a bag on an Air Canada or WestJet flight, and your carry-on luggage could be next. The dual airlines are lifting a fee to $30 for a initial checked bag and $50 for a second on many economy flights. Some experts envision airlines will eventually introduce carry-on charges to speed adult a boarding routine and leave some-more room in beyond bins.

More from Marketplace: Why it can siphon to fly in Canada.

Walmart shoppers indignant about ‘fat tax’

Shoppers in Canada are criticizing a U.S.-based sell giant for charging some-more for plus-size clothing. Plus-size women’s wardrobe equipment done by George (a code disdainful to a chain) cost between 10 and 30 per cent some-more than unchanging sizes — a process some customers call an unfair “fat tax.”  A Walmart orator pronounced a association is looking during ways to revoke a additional costs that come with creation plus-size wardrobe with an eye to obscure sell prices.

Widespread mistitling of seafood

If you’re a fan of seafood, there’s a good possibility you’re not removing what we paid for. That’s according to a new news from an sea advocacy organisation that found 44 per cent of a tested seafood samples in 5 Canadian cities were mislabelled. In 75 per cent of those cases, cheaper fish was mislabelled as something some-more expensive. The organisation collected samples from 177 retailers and restaurants in Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax.

Oceana Canada tested scarcely 400 samples of seafood from retailers and restaurants in 5 cities opposite a country. (Jenn Hueting/Oceana)

Air Canada’s app hack

If we have a Air Canada app on your phone, you’ll need to change your password. That’s given a association sealed down all 1.7 million accounts after a probable breach. Personal information for about 20,000 business competence have been “improperly accessed.” That includes any information we might have saved in your form on a app, like your pass number.

Air Canada says about 1% of a people who use a app were influenced by a probable breach. (AirCanada.com)

Nursing home staffing

The supervision in New Brunswick is earnest to give staff some-more time to caring for nursing home residents. Liberal personality Brian Gallant pronounced if re-elected he would increase caring to 3.5 hours per day. It’s a fourth time a guarantee has been done to electorate given 2006 (and damaged any time). Our year-long hidden camera investigation found ongoing understaffing in Ontario nursing homes.

What else is going on?

Canada’s health apportion says an EpiPen choice will be alien from a U.S. The Auvi-Q autoinjectors have been authorized by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration and will be imported to palliate a stream shortage. 

Even homeowners in Vancouver and Toronto wish housing prices to fall. An Angus Reid consult suggests owners in both cities think a costs are “unreasonably high.” 

Canada’s duty-free turn has stayed a same for 30 years, though giveaway trade talks could change that. Canadians now compensate duties on alien products value some-more than $20 — 40 times reduce than a U.S. — and one trade consultant says lifting that threshold is expected a good traffic tactic.

This week in recalls

This salad kit could be infested with Listeria; these jackets could poise a poignant enigma jeopardy to children; these portable USB wall chargers could overheat and melt, posing a glow and bake hazard; this light fixture could light if not commissioned correctly, posing a glow and bake hazard; these lobster plush toys could poise a choking jeopardy to immature children.

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