Marketplace Canada's Worst Cellphone Bill
In this excellent business ethics piece from Marketplace, Wendy Mesley gets the story behind the huge bills many Canadians rack up using their cellphones. For several months, Marketplace collected bills and stories from Canadians about the astronomical and sometimes mystifying charges they've received. Hear horror stories about all of the major Canadian carriers, their hidden fees and markups as high ...
- 2009
- 00:21:36
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Marketplace Canada's Worst Customer Service
Professional secret shoppers are put to work across the country, documenting just how bad customer service can be.Complaining experts weigh in, and stores react when we reveal who wins at being worst.
- 2012
- 00:43:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - September 1992 Canada, the United States, and Mexico: A New Trade Deal
This story traces the events leading to the historic signing of the free trade agreement between the three countries and examines its economic and social impact.
- 1992
- 00:14:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/15/1992
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Marketplace Canada’s Restaurant Secrets
When we're eating out, we expect the places that make our food to be as clean as possible. But almost two million of us get sick every year. What's happening behind the scenes? Marketplace goes undercover in some of your favourite chains to reveal Canada's Restaurant Secrets. They've pored over thousands of inspection reports from coffee shops, fast-food and family dining ...
- 2014
- 00:42:43
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/16/2014
News in Review - February 1997 Canadian Airlines: Fighting to Survive
The issues of management skills, pressure from an American corporate partner, competition from Air Canada and union intransigence are focal points for this story.
- 1997
- 00:14:35
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/15/1997
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Venture Canadian Business in Uganda
Most of Canada’s number crunching may happen on Bay Street, but a world and an ocean away, a troubled local economy in Uganda is benefiting from sorting through Canadians’ tax receipts. This program travels to Africa where a group of Ugandans and a Toronto accounting firm have formed a strategic partnership, hoping for a modern miracle.
- 2002
- 00:11:37
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The National Canadian Innovations
Three short documentaries from The National look at Canadian companies thriving despite the current economic downturn. Their secret: embracing today’s new green economy. As auto manufacturing plants begin to rust away, meet the small Mississauga-based company, Electrovaya, that’s creating 100% recyclable portable power packs for electric cars. Then track the success of a McGill University team building a silent snowmobile that ...
- 2009
- 00:11:56
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - February 2000 Canadian National: The Continental Railway
According to the Laurentian theory of Canadian history, Canada as a nation developed from east to west because of the immense inland waterway of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, and Sir John A. Macdonald’s transcontinental railway, the natural extension of the maritime route. The importance of railways in the evolution of Canadian society cannot be underestimated. And ...
- 2000
- 00:07:50
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/15/2000
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The National Canadians pay big fees for Internet — so why don't they switch companies?
Canadians pay some of the biggest fees for Internet service, and Canada's big telecommunication companies are raising their prices — so why don't Canadians switch to other companies? There are many alternatives to Bell, Rogers and Telus, but consumers seem reluctant to switch. CBC News takes a look at why Canadians continue to pay huge fees even as they complain ...
- 2018
- 00:05:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/02/2018
News in Review - February 2009 Canadians, Credit Cards and Debt
For many years Canadians have been on a credit card binge. Now, as the economic crisis deepens, a lot of them find themselves with high levels of personal debt. In this News in Review story we’ll look at why so many Canadian households are overextended. We’ll also examine why it’s so easy to fall into the credit trap and what ...
- 2009
- 00:13:58
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/15/2009
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