Counterfeit crackdown; cannabis costs: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

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We bought dozens of products from AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish. Over half were suspected fakes.

Canadians are spending tens of billions of dollars any year selling online. But a Marketplace investigation found we can’t always trust a product descriptions, even when they seem to be legit. We tested dozens of products purchased from renouned online retailers and found many suspected and reliable counterfeits. We also took some products to a labs, including purported Kylie Cosmetics and MAC makeup products, and found levels of dangerous metals good over a endorsed extent from Health Canada. Read more.

Windsor, Ont., wants to be a 1st Canadian city to pointer a understanding with Amazon’s Ring. But remoteness concerns abound.

An augmenting series of U.S. military army are embracing Amazon’s consumer record — like Ring doorbell cameras — as a low-cost resolution to assistance quarrel crime, and now Windsor, Ont., is meditative of removing in on a action. But some remoteness experts, like University of Windsor Prof. Bonnie Stewart, are disturbed about a implications. She says Ring’s military partnerships volume to “building a notice infrastructure that looks behind during us.”  Read more.

Cannabis remove prices change ‘wildly’ between provincially run stores

A CBC News investigate has suggested a cost of cannabis capsules, sprays and oils varies widely opposite Canada, with a same product sometimes costing dual to 3 times some-more in one provincially run online store than another. Daniel Bear, a drug process consultant during Humber College in Ontario, says unsuitable pricing from range to range is unpropitious to a idea of wiping out a bootleg market. Read more.

Coronavirus only commencement to harm Canadian economy, experts say

Business, sell and tourism experts contend COVID-19, a newly identified coronavirus, has begun to harm businesses in Canada, but its full impact won’t be transparent for some months. Jim Danahy, CEO of CustomerLAB, a sell consulting organisation in Toronto, pronounced a effects will be worse than those of SARS in 2003 given Chinese production has quadrupled given then. Read more.

What else is going on?

Babies frequently unprotected to cleaning products during aloft risk of asthma: study
New investigate suggests visit bearing to common domicile cleaning products can boost a child’s risk of building asthma.

Ottawa unveils new debt highlight exam manners that will make it easier to pass
Starting in April, a supervision will change a manners that cover debt lending in a approach that should, in a brief tenure during least, make it easier to validate for a loan to buy a home.

Pier 1 Imports files for disaster protection, will tighten all Canadian stores
Home products tradesman Pier 1 Imports Inc. announced Monday it is filing for Chapter 11 disaster insurance in a United States, a month after observant it would tighten all a stores in Canada.

CRTC hearings could open doorway to mobile disrupters — and presumably cheaper cellphone rates
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) hearings are approaching to be a showdown between a nation’s large mobile wireless providers — Bell, Rogers and Telus — and smaller providers who are focussed on jolt adult what some call an oligopoly-style market.

The latest in recalls

These Contigo H2O bottles for kids have been removed due to a choking hazard.    
This smoke and CO monoxide detector has been removed due to intensity disaster to operate.    
These generators have been removed due to a intensity glow hazard.

This week on Marketplace

Counterfeit crackdown with Asha Tomlinson

Everybody’s doing it — online shopping, that is.

Nearly 84 per cent of Canadians have churned out their label and bought something in a practical marketplace.

But how can we trust that what you’re removing is a genuine deal?

In a universe of tawdry products, it can be tough to tell. Selling fakes online is a flourishing trend with really genuine health hazards.

So we tested 5 renouned online retailers in this week’s investigation: Amazon, Wish, AliExpress, eBay and Walmart.

We bought dozens of products, all from wiring to sportswear to makeup.

Our results? You’ll wish to balance in to find out.

Watch our full review and past episodes of Marketplace anytime on CBC Gem. 

-Asha

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