Scams and schemes: Telemarketers, feign reviewers, Q-ray bracelet: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

December 17, 2017
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Beware griddle brushes

Health Canada won’t anathema or remember handle griddle brushes even yet a group has perceived some-more than dual dozen reports of injuries caused by swallowing bristles that came lax and finished adult in food. Physicians endorsed a ban, yet Health Canada pronounced that attention might wish to “take stairs to revoke a risk of bristles detaching.”

Beverly Smith kitchen brush

Beverly Smith of Red Deer, Alta., underwent puncture medicine in Oct after a bristle from her griddle grill brush seperated her bowel. (Colin Hall/CBC)

The coupon isn’t in a mail

UPS mislaid a family’s estate value some-more than $846,000.Â The bearer mislaid a bank breeze between indicate A and indicate B, yet they did reinstate a $32 shipping fee. The family fought for months with TD Canada Trust to get entrance to their money. The bank finally relented after CBCÂ News reported a story.Â

Lorette Talor and John Taylor

Lorette and John Taylor spent 10 months perplexing to redeem $846,648.46 of a family estate mislaid by UPS. (Petar Valkov/CBC)

Will sheet laws help?

Last year, we investigated because it’s so tough for fans to get tickets to a shows and events they love. Ontario upheld new laws this week to stop sheet scalping bots. But a industry, and critics, contend fans are still going to remove out.

John Prine tickets

Ontario introduced new manners for sheet sales this week, yet a party attention and critics contend a legislation won’t assistance fans. (Elizabeth McMillan/CBC)

It costs some-more to caring for your kid

Child-care costs in Canada continue to rise. A new news by a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found that child-care costs possibly went adult or stayed a same roughly everywhere. (Only relatives in St. John’s, N.L., Burnaby, B.C., and Calgary got a bit of a break. But costs went adult 21 per cent in Toronto, 19 per cent in Edmonton, 9 per cent in Vancouver and 6 per cent in Ottawa.)

hi-kindergarten

A new news by a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found that child caring costs possibly went adult or stayed a same roughly everywhere in Canada. (Nick Ut/Associated Press)

What else is going on

Romaine lettuce might be creation people ill in 5 provinces. Thirty people in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,Â Quebec and Ontario reportedly became ill with E. coli after eating a salad greens.

There’s a new approach to get around in Toronto. Ride-hailing use Lyft will contest with cabs and Uber for a initial time in Canada.

Nova Scotia might supplement another step to removing ID’d while shopping booze. The range is contrast a program where those who demeanour underneath 30 to have their marker scanned, in an bid to moment down on feign IDs.

This week in recalls

Peg Perego Book strollers, and some concomitant transport systems, don’t accommodate reserve regulations; a hardware on this crib could come loose,Â this unstable jump start system could overheat and a partial on this compact tractor might mangle and means a rollover risk.