How not to remove weight: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

February 05, 2017
Business

If we haven’t had a possibility to locate adult on consumer news this week, here are some stories we might have missed.

Who we gonna call?

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According to a new CRTC, 21 of respondents pronounced they still get strike with astonishing charges on their monthly bill. (Dann Verner)

Got an emanate with your cellphone company? Yeah, you’re not a usually one.

But if you’re not removing anywhere with patron service, there’s an independent consumer physique privately for you: a Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services.

Even better: a organisation will shortly take on complaints about your TV service.

Paper or plastic? How about neither?

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The owners of a Green grocery store usually buys one code of any item, and it contingency be done in Canada. (Wayne Stadler)

“I woke adult during 4 a.m. and we thought, what if we could go to a grocery store and there was no plastic?”

Forget, for a moment, all a food we chuck away; a B.C. store is holding on food wrapping waste.

The store sells a food, though you move your possess bags, jars, baskets, and whatever else we wish to use to transport it all home.

Heads up, parents

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Young children unprotected to a rarely strong antiseptic in pods risk critical injury, including chemical browns to a eye. (CBC)

We know that washing pods aren’t candy or fist toys. Little kids? They don’t always know that. The series of diminutive ones in a U.S. who have finished adult with chemical browns related to a pods has left approach up.

So keep extraordinary children divided from washing pods, or hang to scooping out soap a out-of-date way. Here’s what we need to know.

Push-button booze

Single-cup coffee, make your possess soda: It looks like drink might be a subsequent limit of DIY libation machines. A integrate of companies are operative on at-home ethanol dispensers.

Just don’t brew adult a machines when you’re creation your morning crater of joe to go.

Unhealthy media diet

Kids are bombarded by ads for junk food online and in video games, and a Heart and Stroke Foundation wants it to stop. Most of a offending ads are for things that’s high in sugar, salt or fat.

The organisation points to Quebec, where a 1980 anathema on ads to kids underneath 13 was compared with fewer people shopping quick food. More food for thought.