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Consumer Life Headlines
- Sears Canada tops CBC News customer service survey
- A CBC News survey evaluating telephone-based customer service has ranked Sears Canada first in a field of 40.
- EU says China making 'significant effort' to improve product safety
- The European Union is backing off on a threat to ban certain toys and products from China over health and safety concerns.
- Federal auto 'feebate' program is flawed, study says
- The federal program that gives cash grants to buyers of fuel-efficient cars is a first step to cutting fuel use but it has several defects, according to a study by the C.D. Howe Institute.
- Fuel requests heat up Sally Ann phones
- The Salvation Army says it's getting more than a dozen calls a day from desperate people who cannot afford to heat their homes.
- Farmer evicted after spraying pesticide near school
- P.E.I.'s Eastern School District is taking back land it had been leasing to a local farmer after pesticide was blown on to a playground by high winds.
- Prized Afghan pomegranates offer export hope to farmers
- Ruby-red pomegranates famously grown in Afghanistan are part of a new development project aimed at starting a fruit export market after years of the illegal opium trade.
- Calgary has Canada's most expensive office rents: survey
- Alberta's booming economy has driven office rents in Calgary to the highest level in Canada, just ahead of Toronto's, but far below the sky-high rents in London, a global survey says.
- Oil prices steady
- Crude oil prices were steady above $97 US a barrel Thursday after failing to break above $100 overnight as a U.S. weekly inventory report showed crude oil stocks rose at a key oil terminal.
- Tories introduce legislation to crack down on identity theft
- The federal Conservative government introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at tightening laws against the growing problem of identity theft, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said.
- Resource boom helps Canadian incomes outgrow U.S.
- Canada's booming resource sector has helped income growth in the country sharply outpace U.S. growth over the past seven years, according to a report issued Thursday.