Sobeys cost travel and telcos urge sales practices: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

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Future cost travel during Sobeys​

If we emporium during Sobeys, your grocery check competence be removing some-more expensive. The grocery chain’s parent association pronounced it will eventually pass on the higher cost of food to consumers due to Canada’s retaliatory tariffs opposite a U.S. CEO Michael Medline pronounced rising burden charges and smallest wage increases in certain provinces are formulating additional pressures.

Canada Post strike looms

If you’re awaiting an critical package in a mail, it competence not be delivered on time. Canada Post workers voted in foster of striking if a understanding isn’t reached by Sept. 26. Wages and operative conditions are a vital issues holding adult a talks. Canada Post and a Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been deliberating new contracts given final November.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has voted in foster of strike movement if an agreement can’t be reached with Canada Post. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

Probiotics competence not assistance your gut

Do we take over-the-counter probiotics? New investigate suggests they competence not assistance your tummy and could even forestall it from returning to a healthy state. According to dual studies published in a biography Cell, there’s usually justification probiotics advantage people with specific conditions. One gastroenterologist says a best approach of ancillary a healthy tummy microbiome is a offset diet abounding in vegetables.

Paint bark on Toyota RAV4s​

Toyota business are carrying paint trouble. Owners of a RAV4 contend paint on their vehicles has been chipping and bark in vast patches. One Nova Scotia proprietor was told white Toyotas like hers, made between 2009 and 2013, were not primed properly. Toyota Canada says a paint guaranty expires after 36 months or 60,000 kilometres.

Nova Scotia proprietor Rachel Mosley’s 2011 Rav 4 has bark paint on a front side row and on a gas cap. When she attempted to get a manufacturer to compensate for repainting, she was told a paint guaranty lapsed after 36 months. (Robert Guertin/CBC)

Big telcos urge sales practices

Canada’s large telcos contend they’re operative tough to make we happy. In their CRTC submissions, Bell, Rogers, Telus and Shaw any defended themselves opposite allegations of untrustworthy sales practices and explain their business are good served. Earlier this year, our dark camera investigation with Go Public suggested dubious pitches by door-to-door sales reps offered Bell products.

What else is going on?

Air Canada has been fined $65,000 after a family was kicked off their flight. The income is meant to compensate for a “mental agony” they suffered, though a airline says they were systematic to leave since a daughter was ill and her reserve could have been compromised.

Volkswagen is interlude prolongation of a Beetle subsequent year. The automaker says there are no evident plans to reinstate a iconic car.

Uber is expanding self-driving automobile investigate in Toronto. Months after a deadly pile-up involving one of a self-driving vehicles in Arizona, a association is opening a first engineering lab in Canada.

This week in recalls

These birth control tablet packages might not embody day-of-the-week stickers; these vacuum cleaners could poise a intensity startle hazard; these gas ranges and wall ovens could poise a bake hazard; this cat food could be infested with Listeria; these slime products could be poisonous to children; this fire table has gradual potion that could poise break injuries; this chili powder could be infested with salmonella.

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