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Toys R Us Canada has a great FREE Family Events in March each Saturday including fun make and takes, product demos, giveaways and more.
Visit your local Toys“R”Us store to take part in the exciting promotions and activities your kids will love. All events are offered In-store only. While quantities last. Giveaways and make and takes are limit to one per child. Events recommended for children ages 5 years and up.
Today: Saturday, March 18, 2017 from 11am – 1pm
- Beyblade Burst + Play Doh Demo & Crafts
- Kids test their skills and challenge other participants at our Beyblade battle for the burst event.
Here’s the upcoming event every Saturday morning at 11am:
Saturday, March 25, 2017 from 11am – 1pm
- Beauty and The Beast Event Make and Take
- Kids can Build and take home a LEGO Mini Cogsworth and create and take home a Play-Doh Rose.
Click here to view the Toys R Us flyer.
Click here to get more information on this event.
Cineplex Canada has released their new schedule. The Cineplex Canada Family Favourites Movies include:
- Today, Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 11am the film The Wizard of Oz. Family, Fantasy, is the Family Favourites for $2.99 (1h 42m).
Here’s the upcoming movie every Saturday morning at 11am for Cineplex Family Favourites at $2.99 each:
March, 2017:
- Saturday, March 25, 2017: Space Jam. Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Family, Classic. 1h 28m
April 2017:
- Saturday, April 1, 2017: Looney Tunes Shorts
- Saturday, April 8, 2017: The Land Before Time
- Saturday, April 15, 2017: Hop
- Saturday, April 22, 2017: E.T Extra-Terrestrial
- Saturday, April 29, 2017: Sing
Click here to see a list of Cineplex participates in the Family Favourites event.
Click here to get tickets from Cineplex online
The Home Depot Canada has a new list of workshops! The The Home Depot Canada today FREE workshops includes: Install Laminate Flooring. Learn how to measure, cut and install laminate flooring.
The Home Depot Canada FREE workshops is valid today, Saturday, March 18, 2017 – 10:00 am to 11:00 am.
To book your slot at a workshop, contact your local Home Depot location.
Click here to get all Home Depot Canada online offers.
Click here to view The Home Depot flyers
Anyone who has lived in Toronto before can attest to the crazy real estate market and how rent is becoming increasingly harder and harder to pay, particularly for people who don’t make a Bay St. salary. News came down this morning from Queen’s Park that NDP Peter Tabuns, MPP for Toronto-Danforth, is proposing a private member’s bill that aims to make housing more affordable in the province.
In his bill, Tabuns is putting forward that all rental units be permitted to fall under rent control.
“People deserve protection against unreasonable rent increases,” Tabuns told the CBC on Thursday morning.
As it stands right now, landlords who have rental units that were built after 1991 are exempt from rent control. This stipulation is from the 1997 Residential Tenancies Act, which was intended to inspire developers to build new rental units.
“The exemption that exists now for buildings built after 1991 needs to go,” said Tabuns in the interview with CBC. “It isn’t helping people anymore. In fact, it’s putting people in a very difficult position.”
In Toronto, the city’s rental vacancy rate is 1.3 percent and an ever growing number of people are finding the prices of their rentals completely unaffordable.
Tabuns will be tabling the bill on Monday, with more details of the plan coming in the days ahead.
Have you ever had one of the U.K.’s greatest chocolatey creations, the milk chocolate covered malt balls, aptly named, Maltesers? Well, if you haven’t then you may want to check out these Mars chocolate balls of delight in the next coming months, especially if you’re living in Newmarket, Ontario, as they’re now officially home of the Malteser – well, on North American grounds at least.
Maltesers are a British confectionary that only began being imported to the U.S. this year. But you may be familiar with the sugary treat if you live in the U.S., as they share a very similar composition to the American brand Whoppers.
This recent opening of the first and only factory for Maltesers in North America marks a special occasion for the town of Newmarket. With the opening of the facility, they have added 30 highly skilled jobs to Newmarket’s employment numbers, in addition to the 50 tradespeople it took to build the factory. The factory also said that as production ramps up to become a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week operation that they will add more jobs to handle the some seven and a half million Maltesers that will be rolling off the conveyor belt each day.
About 80 percent of the production from this factory will be exported to the U.S., which is a country quickly catching on to the love of these wafery circles of delight.
By now, almost everyone has heard about the mysterious and concerning CCD – Colony Collapse Disorder – happening around the world and hurting one of nature’s most cherished workers: the honey bee. Cheerios Canada has decided to not be a complacent bystander in solving this pressing issue, and so has launched the #BringBackTheBees campaign.
In this campaign, Cheerios is giving people who fill out this form a free sample of 500 wildflower seeds that you can plant to help stimulate the honey bee population. Bees rely on wildflower pollen for sustenance, and by planting more seeds around the world, Cheerios is hoping to curb some of the bee’s disappearance by creating a more bee friendly environment.
They have already met their goal of sending 100 million seeds to Canadians, but they are continuing to send out more of these wildflower seeds to people who request it.
Click here to learn more about the #BringBackTheBees campaign.
Sephora Canada has a new Free Deluxe sample! Receive a Free mini Guerlain Primer Mini Sample with online orders of $25 or more.
To get your FREE sample enter the promo code PEARLPOWER at checkout. Offer is valid on
Offer valid for a limited time. Quantities are limited.
This Sephora Canada offer is valid online for a limited time, while supplies last.
Click here to shop online at Sephora Canada.
As originally reported by the Wall Street Journal, the Hudson’s Bay Co is rumoured to be in talks with the U.S. retail chain Neiman Marcus to buy out the struggling company.
Neiman Marcus released a statement that neither confirmed or denied who they were in talks with, but instead said that they were hiring financial advisers to “explore and evaluate potential strategic alternatives”.
The Hudson’s Bay Co also says that it is part of their company policy to not comment on rumours and speculation, so they too have neither confirmed whether or not these ‘talks’ are more than just speculation.
Neiman Marcus has been carrying a long-term U.S. debt of $4.4 billion and in their last quarter they reported sales that were lower by 6.1 per cent when compared to the same period last year.
The Hudson’s Bay already owns a number of American retailers, some of the most well-known including banners like Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, Gilt, and SAKS OFF 5TH.
The Home Depot Canada has a new list of workshops! The The Home Depot Canada today FREE workshops includes: Install Moulding and Trim! Learn how to select, measure, cut and install moulding and trim.
The Home Depot Canada FREE workshops is valid today, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 – 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
To book your slot at a workshop, contact your local Home Depot location.
Click here to get all Home Depot Canada online offers.
Click here to view The Home Depot flyers
We’ve been posting a lot these past few weeks about free March Break events going on around the country, and while some of them might be wrapping up, a lot of them are just starting this week. So we thought it’d be best to curate a mega-list of sorts of the various events and activities being offered by retailers and businesses throughout the country.
Indigo Chapters Canada
We made a fuller post that goes into full detail about the different days and events going on at Indigo Chapters Canada, but you can expect more than just reading activities (though there will be a day dedicated to Dr. Seuss!)
The events will run every day, from Monday to Friday, with a new craft or activity planned to run. The exact dates will vary depending on your province though.
IKEA Canada
IKEA Canada’s March Break events were written about a couple of days ago, but we thought it’d be a good idea to remind you that the free events will begin March 13th (tomorrow) and will end on March 19th.
You can click here to find your local IKEA to see what they’ll be offering for your kiddies.
Public Libraries
We made a full and detailed post about all of the funtivities being offered by the Toronto Public Library, but if you don’t live in the GTA, it’s still worth your while to check out what your local public library is offering for March Break.
Cineplex Canada
Cineplex Canada offers $2.99 matinee movies every Saturday, but for the month of March, as we posted about a couple of weeks ago, they’ll be applying that offer to weekday matinee shows of select movies for your province’s March Break week.
You can check out when the specific times of movies will be offered, depending on your province.
Toys R Us Canada
Toys R Us Canada has been hosting events all through March for families and their kids, but be sure to check out this week’s lineup of events if you’re kids are on March Break. You can learn more about the specifics of the events being offered here, but you can expect to find free giveaways, LEGO and Play Doh events and much more!
Mastermind Toys Canada
Depending on the province you’re living in, Mastermind Toys Canada will be running free events either this week, March 13-17 (Ontario and B.C.), or next week, March 27-31 (Alberta, Regina and Manitoba).
You can expect to find a number of fun events, but here are just some of the better ones that they’re offering:
- room decoration with pin boards,
- Melissa and Doug mess-free glitter stickers event
- create your own plush toy
Learn more about the events happening at Mastermind near you here.
If we missed a fun and free event happening near you that you think should be added to the list, please let us know and we’ll be sure to add it to the ever growing list of fun, free March madness!
New Era Nutrition Inc.is recalling SoLo GI brand energy bars from the marketplace due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
What you should do
Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, call your doctor.
Food contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, mild to severe abdominal cramps and watery to bloody diarrhea. In severe cases of illness, some people may have seizures or strokes, need blood transfusions and kidney dialysis or live with permanent kidney damage. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
After a rough year in 2016, where Staples closed 48 of their locations in North America, 2017 isn’t proving to be much better for the mega office retail chain. Staples posted their fourth quarter for 2016, and the results were less than disappointing, including a 7 percent decrease in retail sales. As a result of these poor earnings, Staples has announced that they will be closing another 70 stores in 2017.
This will affect roughly 5 percent of the stores in North America, where they have 1,255 locations in the U.S. and 304 in Canada.
The closing of these stores curtails Staples move to shift their retail dominant business to cater more to the likes of their online customers.
There have been no announcements regarding which stores exactly will be closed down, but we’re keeping our eyes and ears alert to any further developments in this story.
Click here to find the nearest Staples location to you.
Do you ever find yourself jealous of the kids at movie theatres who are able to play arcade games judgement free? Or do you find yourself yearning for a place where you can legally throw back a beer whilst demolishing your buddy in a game of air hockey? Well if you live in Toronto and will be around this summer, then you’ll be excited to learn that Cineplex Canada is expanding their Edmonton vision of an adult Rec Room for young adults living in the GTA.
There is no firm date set yet, but Cineplex has announced that they will be converting the old Leon’s Furniture Warehouse at Roundhouse Park, just a little bit south of the Convention Centre, into an adult entertainment centre. There will be over 75 games, a patio, two restaurants and a theatre for live events and screenings. There will also be a sports bar inside, so you’ll be able to guzzle down some booze between rounds of whack-a-mole and Dance Dance Revolution.
Unlike the Edmonton location, there isn’t going to be a bowling alley or axe throwing, but entry into the space will be free. Of course to take part in any of the games, you will have to pay up.
The two restaurants are said to specialize in either fine Canadian dining, a little more formal, and then the other restaurant will be set up more like a laid back poutinerie.
To get a gage of what you can expect at Toronto’s Rec Room, you can check out Edmonton’s Rec Room here.
Health Canada is advising Canadians that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare Inc. has initiated a voluntary recall of certain Buckley’s syrup products from stores. A defect with the plastic seal may cause it to fall into the bottle and present a potential choking hazard if swallowed. This seal is a circular plastic layer that is clear or semi-transparent and approximately 1.7 cm in diameter
The affected products are indicated for use by adults and children above 12 years old.
Affected products
- Buckley’s Complete, DIN 02279703, 150 & 250mL
- Buckley’s Complete Mucus Relief, DIN 02357232, 150 & 250mL
- Buckley’s Cough & Chest Congestion, DIN 02289164, 150 & 250mL
- Buckley’s Cough Mucus & Phlegm, DIN02346451,150 & 250mL
- Buckley’s Original Mixture, NPN 02239538, 100 & 200mL
- Buckley’s Original Mixture Night Time, DIN 02230939, 100mL
What you should do
- According to GSK Consumer Healthcare Inc., consumers should follow the dosing instructions listed on the label. Do not drink directly from the bottle. Pour the syrup into a teaspoon and check for the plastic seal before consuming.
- Consult with your health care professional if you have used these products and have health concerns.
- Contact GSK Consumer Relations at 1-800-250-8866 if you have questions about this recall.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
Toys R Us Canada has a great FREE Family Events in March each Saturday including fun make and takes, product demos, giveaways and more.
Visit your local Toys“R”Us store to take part in the exciting promotions and activities your kids will love. All events are offered In-store only. While quantities last. Giveaways and make and takes are limit to one per child. Events recommended for children ages 5 years and up.
Today: Saturday, March 11, 2017 from 11am – 1pm
- Mega Construx Halo Make And Take
- Build and take home a MEGA Construx HALO ship!
Here’s the upcoming event every Saturday morning at 11am:
Saturday, March 18, 2017 from 11am – 1pm
- Beyblade Burst + Play Doh Demo & Crafts
- Kids test their skills and challenge other participants at our Beyblade battle for the burst event.
Saturday, March 25, 2017 from 11am – 1pm
- Beauty and The Beast Event Make and Take
- Kids can Build and take home a LEGO Mini Cogsworth and create and take home a Play-Doh Rose.
Click here to view the Toys R Us flyer.
Click here to get more information on this event.
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