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Couple arrested over fraud calls from India

Federal authorities have arrested a Toronto-area father and mother indicted of being Canadian accomplices to an huge tellurian fraud involving abroad call centres, including a supposed CRA taxation scam. RCMP Insp. Jim Ogden says Marketplace‘s 2018 and 2019 investigations played a large purpose in a arrests.  “It positively helped that CBC did their exposé … that highlighted this a tiny some-more for all Canadians,” he said.

Inquiry into flight-delay compensation

Ottawa requires airlines to compensate adult to $1,000 in remuneration for moody delays or cancellations that are within their control and not reserve related. But when an airline denies a newcomer compensation, it contingency explain why, and complaints have been ascent from passengers that airlines aren’t sufficient explaining their reasons. The Canadian Transport Authority says it will “take suitable action” if it finds airlines aren’t personification by a rules.

More military regulating facial approval technology

Privacy advocates are calling on all levels of supervision to emanate specific regulations around military use of facial recognition technology. Canada doesn’t have a routine on a collection of biometrics, that are earthy and behavioural characteristics that can be used to brand people digitally. Because of that, there are no smallest standards for privacy, slackening of risk or open transparency, according to a Office of a Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s website. In that vacuum, some military departments have begun to use a technology.

StubHub fined $1.3M 

Ticket reseller StubHub will compensate a $1.3 million chastisement for creation it seem as yet some unison and diversion tickets were accessible during prices that no patron could ever obtain once fees are tacked on. The Competition Bureau says StubHub was promotion dubious sheet prices opposite several websites and mobile apps since fees and other charges weren’t included.

What else is going on? 

Toyota’s paint-peeling problem to be lonesome underneath ‘unprecedented’ extended guaranty for certain models 
Extended guaranty includes certain years of Camrys, Corollas, RAV4s, some as aged as 2008.

Malls experimenting with imagination food halls to captivate behind shoppers
Shopping centres experimenting with new plan in epoch when a flourishing series of people emporium online.

New Canadian customary grown to make BBQ griddle brushes safer after ingested bristles means injuries
A new inhabitant reserve customary for griddle griddle brushes will need a warning tag and contrast to revoke a risk of handle bristles apropos detached, embedded in food and incidentally ingested.

Here’s how furnish stickers minister to meridian change
The stickers are too tiny to be screened out in a rubbish classification process, yet don’t mangle down during composting.

The latest in recalls

These sexual encouragement pills have been removed due to an undisclosed medication drug and a intensity for critical health risks.

This can of aerosol has been removed due to a flammability hazard.

This peanut spread has been removed due to a Listeria concern.

This week on Marketplace

To locate a scammer with David Common

Join Marketplace for disdainful entrance to a military review connected to a fraud calls that disease us all. 

For dual years, we’ve zeroed in on scammers in Indian call centres targeting Canadians: posing as CRA agents, tech support workers or impersonating military and other supervision officials. 

Many of we have come brazen pity your stories and angry about since authorities can’t do some-more to stop a scammers.  And we’ve always wondered: are there accomplices in Canada? 

We have disdainful entrance to a notice and detain of purported “super income mules” in Canada.  Our cameras are there as it all unfolds early one morning. We have a full refurbish on how a scammers are adapting, a expected impact of coercion actions, and how military will tackle it going forward.  

Even a Mounties tell Marketplace our prior investigations helped pull tip coronet to launch sovereign coercion efforts. And they say, it’s profitable off now with arrests and a expectancy of some-more to come. 

It’s a fast-paced, sparkling part that we’re unequivocally unapproachable to uncover we all. 

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

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