Tariffs on U.S. products and Health Canada sunscreen tests: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

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Higher prices for U.S. products

Planning to buy a soaking appurtenance or a grass mower? Prepare to compensate some-more than you’re used to during checkout. Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on products alien from a U.S. take outcome today. More than 120 consumer products will be slapped with a 10 per cent surtax — including dishwashers, fridges, soaking machines, pens, drink kegs, coffee and even toilet paper. The list of items hit with tariffs competence demeanour random, though it targets specific regions of a U.S. that are politically critical to President Donald Trump and to pivotal Republicans. 

More from a demeanour behind during Marketplace: Canada vs. U.S. pricing (2013)

Camera leads automobile into approaching traffic

Mike Ash’s automobile has an modernized driver-assistance complement to assistance keep him protected on a road. He had no thought carrying his windshield transposed could potentially put him in risk since of it. (Sherry Vivian/CBC)

Replacing a windshield could spin into a reserve jeopardy if your automobile has a high-tech system. A Newfoundland male was repelled when a steering circle on his 2016 Acura MDX started to pierce a automobile into a subsequent lane. His automobile had a camera trustworthy to a rear-view counterpart to assistance equivocate collisions, though he didn’t comprehend it indispensable to be practiced after a elementary windshield replacement.

Health Canada tests 27 sunscreens

Health Canada says all 27 sunscreen products it tested were found to have a pH operation tighten to a skin’s healthy level. (Canadian Press)

After receiving some-more than 130 complaints about sunscreen final year, Health Canada investigated. They tested 27 sunscreens from opposite companies and found no critical concerns or any preservatives famous to means skin reactions. The emanate came to light when several mothers complained that their babies suffered burns after regulating Banana Boat sunscreen. Health Canada is still looking into whether factors other than product peculiarity could have contributed to a reported reactions.

Living in ‘child-care deserts’

A examine by a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says 44 per cent of all school-aged children live in supposed ‘child caring deserts’ where a series of children outstrips a accessible spaces in protected homes and centres. (CBC)

If you’re anticipating it unfit to find daycare for your son or daughter, you’re not alone. A new examine says an estimated 776,000 Canadian children live in tools of Canada though adequate accessible daycare spaces — so-called “child-care deserts.” The conditions in Brampton, Ont., is quite bleak: 95 per cent of a city’s children do not have entrance to a daycare centre, according to a report. Charlottetown and Montreal were among a best-served cities.

What else is going on?

Albertans are carrying a many consumer debt. The normal Albertan owes $28,155 — $6,000 some-more than a inhabitant average, that excludes mortgages. Fort McMurray residents have borrowed a many income and one consultant expects a trend to continue in both a city and a province.

Cineplex will broach film entertainment snacks to people during home in a partnership with Uber Eats. The film sequence is testing a module in 60 communities in Alberta, B.C., Quebec and Ontario this week.

A Toronto-area sanatorium has midwives and physicians operative together. Markham Stouffville Hospital says a section will be staffed by midwives 24/7 and doctors will be accessible if needed. The unit’s executive says it’s an additional choice for women who wish to use a midwife though not have a home birth.

This week in recalls

These microgreens could be infested with Listeria; this lighter and this lighter could both poise a glow or bake hazard; these scuba diving regulators could poise a drowning hazard; and these wedge anchors could means injuries.

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