Data deals and pesticides on your clothes: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet
More information deals on a horizon
Sad you missed out on a information deals offering by a vital carriers this week? People lined adult for hours for prices as low as 10GB for $60 a month.
But don’t worry: attention experts consider a deals will be behind soon. That’s since people are unfortunate for cheaper plans, and foe is heating adult between a telecoms.
Pesticides could be on your clothes
A flourishing series of products, including sofas and clothing, competence enclose pesticides.
Manufacturers infrequently use them to boost shelf life, according to a Health Canada report, yet nobody’s contrast for them. Canada’s insecticide regulations and contrast is mostly directed during food and plants.
Big bread working badly?
Loblaws participated in an industry-wide bread price-fixing arrangement for over a decade. (Doug Ives/CP)
Loblaw is giving people $25 to apologize for being partial of an industry-wide bread price-fixing scheme.
Loblaw’s primogenitor association George Weston Ltd. told a Competition Bureau that it unclosed industry-wide price-fixing of finished bread between 2001 and 2015.
Because it co-operated with a investigation, a association and a employees won’t face any charges or penalties.
Apple slows down comparison phones
There’s a reason because your aged iPhone seems slow. Apple says it takes measures to revoke energy demands (which can delayed a processor), yet pronounced it does this to forestall a phone from shutting down unexpectedly.
There is a fix: we can reinstate a battery, yet many indicate out that Apple continues to make a batteries formidable for users to reinstate on their own.
Prescription drug ‘sticker shock’
Patients mostly don’t know a cost of their prescriptions when they arrive during a pharmacy. (Ed Middleton/CBC)
A family alloy is perplexing to make it easier to find out how most a prescriptions cost before we leave a doctor’s office.
Here’s a issue: Doctors competence not be adult to speed on prices. So some patients find out they can’t means their remedy when they get to a pharmacy.
Dr. Iris Gorfinkel says prices should be simply searchable so doctors can plead cost with patients.
What else is going on?
- Nissan Canada has been hacked. The personal information of 1.13 million business was exposed, yet anyone potentially influenced will get giveaway credit monitoring for a year.
- Uber is a cab use like any other, according to a EU’s tip court. This is a landmark ruling that will establish a manners Uber and a rivals have to reside by in Europe.
- Millions of Canadians have investments offshore and don’t know it. Seven of a supposed Big 8 grant supports have used taxation havens as they deposit Canadians’ retirement saving.Â
This week in recalls
- This fish roe competence not demeanour or smell spoiled, yet could make we sick.
- This rattle could means your child to choke.
- This roof fan could tumble and harm you.
- These chemical products could be improperly labelled.
- The tag could mangle on these reserve goggles.
Coming up
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