
Marketplace
Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business pr...
Marketplace
Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to product and service consumers.
Marketplace
Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business pr...

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Episode 1: New Home Nightmares
Think you’re safe from problems when you buy a new home? Think again Dave Prosser and Sylvia Potter...
Episode 2: The Secret History of Cars
Thinking of buying a used car? You’re not alone. In this slowing economy, people are looking to save...
Episode 3: Generation Cellphone
Can cellphone use cause brain tumors? It’s a question that everyone has wondered about, yet there st...
Episode 4: Miracle Makers or Money Takers
Ailing Canadians are spending up to $200 a session in clinics and even buying the $20,000 "miracle"...
Episode 5: Easy Money
Marketplace investigates a company called BIM (Business in Motion) that claims big returns once you...
Episode 6: How Not To Win 500000
Who doesn't want to win $500,000? That’s why so many Canadians are playing the Reader’s Digest sweep...
Episode 7: Credit Card Catch
You might find you're paying for something known as "credit balance insurance." Depending on your cr...
Episode 8: The Trouble With Fake Guns
In a split second, do you think you could tell the difference between a real or an imitation gun? Im...
Episode 9: 7 Sins Of The Marketplace
Marketplace has seen it all when it comes to bad service, unsafe products and schemes. Over the year...
Episode 10: How Not To Buy A Puppy
We’ve all heard puppy horror stories about sick dogs from bad breeders. But many pet stores promise...
Episode 11: Lawless Loans
Need a loan? As the economy continues to shrink, banks are becoming more and more reluctant to appro...
Episode 12: Power of Persuasion
Like any commodity, electricity and natural gas prices go up and down with the markets. In some prov...
Episode 13: The Price Cut Promise
Thinking of renovating your home? As resale prices and new home construction drops due to the recess...
Episode 1: Grow-Op Cover Up
Erica Johnson and contractor Mike Holmes reveal a new twist on home inspectors: more Canadians are b...
Episode 2: GPS Distraction - Busted: Shingles
Convenience over safety? Marketplace conducts a first of its kind test in Erica Johnson's investigat...
Episode 3: Road to Rich Dad
The pitch is how to get rich, or is it how to get ripped off? Erica Johnson investigates who's getti...
Episode 4: Magic in a Bottle?
Erica Johnson investigates one of Canada's largest diet companies, Herbal Magic.
Episode 5: Canada's Worst Cellphone Bill
Wendy Mesley investigates the story behind huge bills many Canadians rack up from using their cellph...
Episode 6: Who's Minding the Store? - Busted: Cord Blood Banks
Erica Johnson reveals the newest way thieves are stealing your credit and debit card numbers.
Episode 7: Burning Question - The Debt Trap
Firefighters know there's one thing that can help save lives in a fire, so you'll be surprised to le...
Episode 8: Stretching the Truth? - Busted: Lysol
Episode 9: Something's Fishy - Busted: Easyhome
It's labelled halibut, but can you count on it? When you buy fish are you getting what you pay for?...
Episode 10: Something's Fishy - Busted: Easyhome
Has your home insurance rate gone up? Wendy Mesley reveals it could be connected to your credit scor...
Episode 1: Big Gym Ripoff
How gym membership contracts affect Canadians and how some gyms are run.
Episode 2: Cure or Con?
Investigating homeopathy, the fastest growing alternative health practice in Canada.
Episode 3: Incredible Shrinking Products
Episode 4: Spinning a Pill
Investigating the oral contraceptive Yasmin.
Episode 5: Clean Water Dirty Tricks
Investigation of the sale of door-to-door water purification systems in Canada.
Episode 6: Hitting the Roof
Investigating the world of shady roofers with contractors Mike Holmes.
Episode 7: Superbug in the Supermarket
Investigating the link between the animals we eat and our resistance to antibiotics.
Episode 8: Crash and Burned
Tom Harrington investigates what insurance companies don't want you to know.
Episode 9: Back on the Case
We follow up on some of our favourite stories. See what's changed, and who's been busted since we "B...
Episode 10: Debt Collector Dread
Debt collectors: their business can be ferocious. But when they cross the line, can you count on the...
Episode 11: Canada's Worst Cell Phone Bill: The Sequel
Taking another look at Canada's cellphone industry.
Episode 12: Lousy Labels
The labels say 'organic' and 'natural' -- but are they really? Erica Johnson separates the truly gre...
Episode 13: Won't Get Fooled Again
For the first time ever, Marketplace will be running the scams instead of exposing them.
Episode 1: Canada's Worst Customer Service: Store Edition
'Marketplace' launches our 39th season with a special one-hour episode that takes on Canada's major...
Episode 2: What FX?
Marketplace puts COLD-FX to the test, and discovers that there may be more clever marketing than pro...
Episode 3: Trouble For Rent
In "Trouble for Rent," Tom Harrington meets tenants of a national rental company and uncovers a dist...
Episode 4: The Toilet Paper Chase
Marketplace's Tom Harrington wants to find out what's behind one prominent eco-logo. He tracks down...
Episode 5: Lousy Labels: Health Hype
In this year's Top 10 countdown of Lousy Labels, Erica Johnson finds the truth behind the latest buz...
Episode 6: Snake In The Grass
Tom Harrington reveals the story of how, for many unwilling clients, Canada's largest lawn care comp...
Episode 7: Recruitment Rip-Off
Tom Harrington exposes the aggressive practices of a job search marketing firm -- one that acts more...
Episode 8: Framed
The materials in them are downright cheap. Even crafting the lenses is hardly labour-intensive. So w...
Episode 9: 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...
Episode 10: Tripped Up
Going on vacation? Think travel health insurance is going to protect you if something goes wrong?Mar...
Episode 11: Dirty Hospitals
Canada has the highest rate of hospital acquired infections in the developed world, and Canada's con...
Episode 12: The Busted Edition
Co-hosts Erica Johnson and Tom Harrington report on shocking claims and shoddy services that drive C...
Episode 1: Lousy Labels: Home Edition
"They're on your bedding, your kitchenware, and the cleaning products you use: labels claiming produ...
Episode 2: When The Repairman Knocks: Pools
"Marketplace is back at it again, putting home repairmen to the test. We're wiring up homes with hid...
Episode 3: Fighting for Fido
Thousands of dogs are ill or dying across North America and it's been going on for years. No one can...
Episode 4: Getting Squeezed
"Buying a new car can be a gamble: you could end up landing a lemon. So what happens if you buy a fa...
Episode 5: Too Good To Be True
"In four decades of Marketplace, we've come across a lot of products - and a lot of pitchmen - that...
Episode 6: Money Where Your Mouth Is
"When it's time to get our teeth checked, most of us trust our dentist to determine the treatment pl...
Episode 7: High Steaks
"Is the steak you buy as safe as you think? We're taking a sharp look at a little-known process whic...
Episode 8: Pump Fiction
"The price for premium gas blends is as much as 15 cents more per litre than regular gas. Gas compan...
Episode 9: The Dirt on Hotels, Part 1
"Marketplace puts six of the largest hotel chains in Canada to the test. We're investigating the cl...
Episode 10: The Dirt on Hotels, Part 2
"Last week's investigation of hotel cleanliness got Canada talking last week. Now, we're digging dee...
Episode 11: When The Repairman Knocks: Garage Doors
"What happens when you give shady repair companies a second chance? Last season we put garage repai...
Episode 12: Burned
"Tom Harrington investigates flame retardants in our homes and reveals the toxic chemicals used to p...
Episode 13: To Catch A Telemarketer
This week on Marketplace: telemarketers from hell. We're out to catch them breaking the rules. We go...
Episode 14: When The Repairman Knocks: Air Ducts
This time, we're testing air duct cleaners; yup air ducts... the things that carry hot and cold air...
Episode 15: Busting The Banks
"Are you frustrated with banking fees? Marketplace reveals three sneaky ways the banks fatten their...
Episode 16: Back On The Case
"We revisit two stories, and see what happened after the Marketplace bust. Dirty Hospitals: have th...
Episode 17: Price Tag Confidential
"What they don’t want you to know about prices You've sent us e-mail after e-mail asking why things...
Episode 18: Who's Watching the Kids?
Episode 19: Mike Holmes: Home Ripoffs
Episode 20: The Great Salt Shakedown
Episode 21: Hospital Parking Pain
"We investigate the costs of parking at hospitals in Canada, find who's really making money off thos...
Episode 22: The Busted Edition
"We're on the trail of false claims, rounding up big names with their hands in your pockets. We're c...
Episode 23: What’s The Deal?
"If a deal sounds too good to be true... then it probably is. We delve in Dealfind, the largest Can...
Whether it is a slick scam, misleading marketing claim, a product that could put your health at risk, or maddening customer service, Marketplace has got your back.
Episode 1: Truckload of Trouble
Trucking is the lifeline of Canada's economy, and as the country faces a shortage of drivers, Market...
Episode 2: Fast-food chains serving up halal food with a side of misinformation, expired certificates
Some of Canada's most popular restaurants serve halal food, but a Marketplace investigation finds th...
Episode 3: Stolen in Seconds: Why aren't carmakers doing more?
Marketplace compares some of Canada's most stolen vehicles to the same makes and models sold in the...
Episode 4: Access Denied: Back on the Case
From staff training to boarding procedures and the availability of lift equipment, Marketplace puts...
Episode 5: Lousy labels on popular products
Revealing how much ginger is really in Canada Dry's Ginger Ale; the "made from real ginger" claim wa...
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Episode 7: A company profiting from a boy's illness
A collage of Marketplace investigations comes together when a father finds his disabled son's story...
Episode 8: Cause for Paws: The rising cost of pet care
Marketplace reveals the growing number of vet clinics being bought up by corporations across the cou...
Episode 9: Exposing The Celebrity Sell: Home Edition.
Celebrities including Mike Holmes and former CFL player Graeme Bell make the pitch for renovations a...
Episode 10: Sale or Fail?
Marketplace tracks sale items at popular stores for more than six months, revealing false discounts,...
Episode 11: The Changemakers: Your voice, our fight
Marketplace reveals the investigations have led to change. From removing unsafe products from store...
Episode 12: Turning up the Heat
Marketplace investigates the murky world of home heating deals to reveal how consumers who sign up f...
Episode 13: Gaming the System
Marketplace investigates how much information you're giving away when playing mobile games, and wher...
Episode 14: Episode 14
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