Undercover in wake homes: CBC’s Marketplace consumer lie sheet

If you’ve been too bustling to follow a consumer news this week, here’s our cheat sheet. And we can get a Marketplace newsletter in your inbox each week. 

Data divide

Simon Connolly wishes he had entrance to a pretty labelled phone devise with total information in Canada. (Simon Connolly)

Two pleasing words: total data. All 5 vital U.S. mobile companies offer it. We’re not so lucky. And some people consider we’re removing a tender deal.

Another assign that a lot of people are ill of paying? That unlocking fee: Canadian telecoms done $37 million final year unlocking a phones.

Depressing decade

A million dollars ain’t what it used to be. Dr. Evil knows it, and so do carefree homeowners.

Even compared to only 10 years ago, a cold indent doesn’t buy as most residence (or, in a box of Vancouver, condo) as it used to.

Grab some tissues: Here’s what $1 million will buy currently opposite Canada compared to 2007.

Tellers tell all

Long-time TD Bank Group employees contend their jobs have turn identical to ‘the stereotypical slimy, used automobile salesman,’ as they’re pressured to sell products. (CBC )

“You don’t know what it’s like to go to bed during night, meaningful your pursuit is now to set people adult for financial failure.”

Three TD Bank employees spoke out this week, observant contend their jobs count on upselling we on products that can put we into debt. 

The ‘worst vacation of my life’

Michelle Murray says passengers were so relieved to lapse to Halifax, they clapped when a craft landed. (Chelsea D’Entremont)

It was an comprehensive holiday, it only didn’t embody energy or using water. One lady is vocalization out after she and her associate vacationers spent their holidays eating dishes by a light of their cellphones.

Sunwing apologized, and not for a initial time this week. Another lady pronounced her vacation during the same review only a few days after was a “trip from hell.”

What else is going on?

Your router is substantially not that secure, and here’s because that’s a problem.

Play a record: Here’s a list of HMV locations that Sunrise is going to take over.

This week in recalls: These duck strips that might make we sick, these chairs that might break, and these shelves that might not reason as most as they say.

Update: Smacking down sexist dress codes

Happy International Women’s Day! To symbol a occasion, a Ontario Human Rights Commission expelled a report on because your waitress shouldn’t have to dress voluptuous to move we that burger, sparked by a review final year.  

Hidden camera review of wake homes

We teamed adult with a Toronto Star to expose pushy upselling and large markups during Arbor Memorial, Canada’s largest wake home chain.

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

 And we take dark cameras to see what a sales pitch looks like when you’re traffic with a genocide of a desired one. 

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-watchdog-funeral-homes-unlimited-data-real-estate-1.4019293?cmp=rss