Marketplace Cellphone bill busters: How to lower your bill
Canadians are charged some of the highest prices in the world for cellphone service. And when we have a problem, it’s often tough to get it solved. Follow three Canadian consumers who are tired of navigating customer service options and waiting forever on hold. Take advantage of the Marketplace team's inside information: help from a long-time customer service rep and a professional ...
- 2016
- 00:22:23
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/18/2017
CBC | Radio-Canada Documentary China Rises, Episode 1: Getting Rich, The Economic Boom
In 25 years, China has achieved the most rapid economic advance in such a short time of any nation in history. How? By scrapping its devotion to collectivism and empracing private enterprise with the zeal of 19th-century robber barons. But is China’s success riding on the backs of the poor?
- 2006
- 00:53:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
CBC | Radio-Canada Documentary China Rises, Episode 2: City of Dreams, Shanghai & the New Middle Class
In the streets and neighbourhoods of Shanghai, a new dream of China is beaing turned into reality. A generation of Chinese now lives in a style that would not look out of place in New York, Berlin or Toronto. But for its poorer residents, Shanghai can be a city of despair.
- 2006
- 00:53:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Andrew Marr's History of the World China's Cultural Revolution
Andrew Marr explores the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the fall and rise of Deng Xiaoping. He looks at the changing fortunes of Deng within China’s ruling Communist Party, his relationship with Chairman Mao Zedong, and the role his economic reforms played in the emergence of China as a superpower. Teacher notes: Create a timeline which charts the rise, fall and ...
- 2012
- 00:07:48
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/03/2019
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Doc Zone Chocolate Confidential
It’s the most popular flavour in the world, and as Chocolate Confidential reveals, the lengths to which some people will go to pursue their passion for chocolate are amazing. You can drink it, eat it, it’s good for your heart and can even be a beauty tool — it’s undeniably a universal obsession. With the average North American consuming 11.7 ...
- 2007
- 00:44:37
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Doc Zone Christmas Confidential
No event in history has ever marshalled so many people and so much effort to celebrate just one day. Viewers will meet unabashed Christmas enthusiasts. Eavesdrop on backroom deals of Christmas industry insiders and witness turkey therapists talk anxious cooks through the big day. Chef and author Nigella Lawson weighs in, offering Christmas recipe secrets and tips to survive the ...
- 2006
- 00:44:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - November 1993 Cigarette Smuggling: Beating the Tax
The economic and ethical issues of this story are explored and the impact on the Canadian economy of "sin taxes" is examined.
- 1993
- 00:10:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/1993
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Marketplace Clean Water, Dirty Tricks
Perfect for Business Ethics, this Marketplace documentary goes undercover to expose the techniques used in door-to-door sales of water purification systems, devices that can cost thousands of dollars, but which most people simply may not need. Co-host Tom Harrington investigates the dubious scare tactics used to entice people to buy.
- 2010
- 00:21:29
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Nature of Things Climate Change: An Uncertain Future (Part 1 of 2)
Beginning on the Prairies, David discovers how farmers are faring as shrinking glaciers wreak havoc with their water supply. In BC he comes face to face with the mountain pine beetle. This tiny deadly insect has already swallowed B.C.’s trees and now it’s checking out Alberta's, threatening the economy in both provinces. In BC's Okanagan wine region, vineyards are reaping ...
- 2007
- 00:44:32
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - September 2012 Cod Moratorium 20 Years Later
July 2012 marked the 20th anniversary of a government-imposed moratorium on Newfoundland’s northern cod fishery. The action, taken by the federal Conservative government of Brian Mulroney, put 40,000 people out of work in Newfoundland and devastated hundreds of communities that depended on fishing as their primary industry.
- 2012
- 00:15:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/15/2012
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