Marketplace - Season 39

Marketplace - Season 39

Season 39

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DatesJan 6, 2012 - Apr 6, 2012
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Episodes

Canada's Worst Customer Service: Store Edition
Season 39Episode 130 min

Canada's Worst Customer Service: Store Edition

'Marketplace' launches our 39th season with a special one-hour episode that takes on Canada's major store chains.
Jan 6, 2012
What FX?
Season 39Episode 230 min

What FX?

Marketplace puts COLD-FX to the test, and discovers that there may be more clever marketing than proven science at the heart of their success. Host Erica Johnson also reveals where the processing of this "Proudly Canadian" product takes place, and speaks with company insiders who reveal a dirty secret.
Jan 13, 2012
Trouble For Rent
Season 39Episode 330 min

Trouble For Rent

In "Trouble for Rent," Tom Harrington meets tenants of a national rental company and uncovers a disturbing history of unhealthy homes, poor maintenance and corporate callousness. On hidden camera we hear what tenants are told when shopping for a new apartment and with the help of experts we put apartments to the test. What we find is troubling so we go looking for answers from the people at the top.
Jan 20, 2012
The Toilet Paper Chase
Season 39Episode 430 min

The Toilet Paper Chase

Marketplace's Tom Harrington wants to find out what's behind one prominent eco-logo. He tracks down a popular toilet paper brand found in Canadian supermarkets to its source, the New Brunswick forest from where it comes, and discovers the answers aren't always clear cut.
Jan 27, 2012
Lousy Labels: Health Hype
Season 39Episode 530 min

Lousy Labels: Health Hype

In this year's Top 10 countdown of Lousy Labels, Erica Johnson finds the truth behind the latest buzzwords on food packaging. It will make you think twice before filling up your shopping cart.
Feb 3, 2012
Snake In The Grass & Busted: Air Canada
Season 39Episode 630 min

Snake In The Grass & Busted: Air Canada

Tom Harrington reveals the story of how, for many unwilling clients, Canada's largest lawn care company has become a more invasive pest than the ones they promise to get rid of. What do you do with a lawn care outfit that won't take no for an answer? Marketplace exposes their over the top tactics, and we speak with an insider who worked for the company.
Feb 10, 2012
Recruitment Rip-Off
Season 39Episode 730 min

Recruitment Rip-Off

Tom Harrington exposes the aggressive practices of a job search marketing firm -- one that acts more like a recruitment agency. While this firm does have all sorts of clients, it seems to specifically target new Canadians, charging them for services and information widely -- and freely -- available. "Recruitment Rip-Off" takes us inside the operation, and includes heartbreaking testimony from the victims.
Feb 17, 2012
Framed
Season 39Episode 830 min

Framed

The materials in them are downright cheap. Even crafting the lenses is hardly labour-intensive. So why are prescription eyeglasses so darned expensive? Tom Harrington focuses in on the outrageously high price of spectacles. In this eye-opening report, we test recent changes in retail and regulation, to see if anyone's offering a better deal.
Feb 24, 2012
When The Repairman Knocks
Season 39Episode 930 min

When The Repairman Knocks

You've got a problem with something in your home, and you need it fixed -- fast! But who do you call? And who can you trust? We put home service trades-people to the test, in a house wired up with hidden cameras. We watch them while they work on what should be a fairly simple repair job -- only to get charged for unnecessary work.
Mar 2, 2012
Tripped Up
Season 39Episode 1030 min

Tripped Up

Going on vacation? Think travel health insurance is going to protect you if something goes wrong?Marketplace exposes an industry that's set up to fail -- convoluted medical questionnaires that can trip people up, travel agents on hidden camera giving dangerous advice, and travelers left on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Watch what happens when Erica Johnson goes looking for answers from a multi-million dollar industry that "regrets your claim is denied.
Mar 9, 2012
Dirty Hospitals
Season 39Episode 1130 min

Dirty Hospitals

Canada has the highest rate of hospital acquired infections in the developed world, and Canada's consumer watchdog wants to know why. Erica Johnson puts hospital cleanliness to the test, and finds a mess that is making you sick. With hidden cameras, including Canada's first hidden camera glo gel test, insider interviews and expert opinions, Marketplace uncovers why people in Canadian hospitals are too often getting sicker instead of better.
Mar 23, 2012
The Busted Edition
Season 39Episode 1230 min

The Busted Edition

Co-hosts Erica Johnson and Tom Harrington report on shocking claims and shoddy services that drive Canadians crazy. It's an hour of television that will have the country shouting, "You're Busted!" at their TV sets. Anti-viral tissue claims, bank fees, outrageous markups at a national car service chain, cable and phone service charges, fast-food marketing spin, extended warranty fine print -- even charities and government watchdogs get "busted" by Marketplace in this wide-ranging exposé.
Apr 6, 2012

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