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Flying to a U.S.? Read this

“Enhanced” confidence measures went into outcome this week for Canadians travelling to a U.S. 

What does it meant for you? Be prepared to have your inclination examined. Have your inscription and e-reader charged in allege and mislay your protecting cases.

It approaching means longer lines too, so airports advise nearing a smallest of dual hours forward of your flight.

Diet drinks and weight loss

That diet splash might not assistance with your weight detriment goals.

Researchers examined 30 observational studies and 7 randomized trials, heading one Manitoba researcher to interpretation there’s “no transparent advantage and there’s intensity for harm” when it comes to regulating synthetic sweeteners as partial of a weight detriment plan.

Her suggestion? Drink H2O instead.

Sweeteners and weight gain2:08

Wasp catcher is also a bird catcher

Sick and sleepy of wasps buzzing around your backyard? This lady was too, so she bought a TrapStik for Wasps. But she schooled a tough (and upsetting) approach that it’s clever adequate to locate birds too. She posted images to amicable media that prompted retailers to take a trap off their shelves and a product’s manufacturer to sequence an evident hindrance of sales.

Beer battles brewing

Craft drink sales are flourishing in Canada while sales of mass-produced blurb drink are flat. (Barry Smith/CBC)

They might be small, though qualification brewers aren’t going down but a fight.

The U.S. organisation that represents them says large drink companies are shopping adult internal decoction pubs and bound farms formerly used by qualification brewers, and shopping a interest in a drink rating website as strategy that make it formidable to tell if a drink you’re celebration is indeed local. Others contend it’s only good business.

What else is going on?

Beware of wire-bristle BBQ brushes. Health Canada is conducting a risk assessment that could lead to a remember after a series of reports associated to swallowing handle bristles trustworthy to food.

Sears Canada got a OK to repay a inventory. Starting currently a beleaguered tradesman can start offered a batch at deeply ignored prices during a 59 stores slated for closure.

Got an app for that Timmies? Soon we could. A Tim Hortons authorization owners told CBC an app that will let we place and compensate for your sequence before we arrive at a grill is approaching subsequent week. 

The U.S. association staid to take over French’s plans to continue to furnish a ketchup in Canada.  

And this week in recalls: 

Yoplait Minigo and Liberte code yogurts have been combined to a remember over concerns pieces of cosmetic could be in a yogurt.

Parents, this teething toy poses a choking jeopardy to small ones. Plus, Health Canada says these cosmetic burst ropes contain chemicals that surpass a acceptable limit.

And keep an eye out for this examination supplement. Fluffy Unicorn contains an undeclared fat burner and aloft levels of caffeine than on a label.

Funeral home markups: Hidden camera investigation

We took dark cameras into 6 wake homes to constraint a sales pitches, and expose crude upselling and outrageous markups. Watch a module online.

Death Inc. – Undercover Inside Canada’s Funeral Homes22:34

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-watchdog-airport-security-beer-battles-1.4216144?cmp=rss