Announcements
Industry is recalling Pezzetta brand Montasio DOP cheese from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.
The recalled product was sold from the following retail locations from March 24 to May 1, 2017, inclusive.
- Ontario: Del Fresh Foods, 6923 Steeles Avenue West, Unit 43-44, Etobicoke, ON
- Quebec: Importation Berchicci Ltée, 6205 Boulevard Couture, Saint-Léonard, QC
What you should do
Check to see if you have recalled product in your home. Recalled product should be thrown out or returned to the store where it was purchased.
If you think you became sick from eating a recalled product, call your doctor.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of this product.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
There are countless reasons as to why you should visit Canada’s Wonderland. Apart from it being ranked second for having the second most roller coasters in the world (16 to be exact), Canada’s Wonderland also plays host to a number of events and concerts throughout the summer season. With this year being the 150th anniversary of Canada, the amusement park is gearing up to have an even more exciting and event filled season. Here’s a round up of the different activities going on this summer so that you can plan your trip to Canada’s best (in my humble opinion) amusement park this summer:
May
- The WoofJocks Canine All Stars – Splash – weekends May 13 to June 25
- Fireworks – May 21, 10pm
- Splash Works Opening Day – May 27, 11am-6pm
- Charlie Brown’s Happy Campers – weekends starting April 30, daily starting June 8
- Snoopy’s Symphony of Water – weekends starting May 19, daily June 24
June
- Wonder Jam – Saturday, June 17
- Cirque Canadien – June 30
- Brew and BBQ – June 24-25
- Flying Frontenacs Stunt and Dive Show – daily starting June 24
- Ultimate Thrills Circus – June 29 to July 26
- Peanuts Party in the Plaza – daily starting June 24
- Victoria Falls High Divers – daily starting June 24
July
- Fireworks – July 1, 10pm
- Celebration Canada 150 – July 1 to 31
- West Coast Lumberjack Show – July 1 to July 15
- Ultimate Thrills Circus – June 29 to July 26
- Freestyle Ski Aerials – July 16 to July 31
- Parkour Freestyle – July 28 to August 15
- KidzFest – July 31 to August 7, 12-8pm
August
- Chinese Acrobatic Show – August 17 to September 4
- Parkour Freestyle – July 28 to August 15
- Taste of Greece – August 19 to 20, 12-8pm
- Taste of Italy – August 26 to 27, 12-8pm
September
- Starlight – Northern Reflections – nightly June 24 to September 2
- Fireworks – September 3, 10pm
- Food Truck Festival – September 2 – 3, 12 to 8pm
- Oktoberfest – September 16, 17, 23 and 24, 12-8pm
Click here to learn more about the events and concerts at Canada’s Wonderland.
CIBC Tim Hortons Double Double Visa Card has a FREE Weekends event available now. The Tim Hortons event includes:
- CIBC Tim Hortons Double Double Visa Cardholders will receive a coupon for a FREE Tim Hortons product every weekend just for using their card.
- Make one purchase in May, 2017 and receive a coupon for the month of June 2017 for a FREE Chill.
Tim Hortons event is valid for a limited time!
Click here for more details about FREE Tim Hortons product every weekend.
Toys R Us Canada has FREE Family Events each Saturday in May. The Toys R Us May Family Events include fun make & 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 4 years and up.
Star Wars May the 4th Celebration at Toys“R”Us!
Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. – 1 :00p.m.
- Calling on LEGO Star Wars Fans – May the 4th be with you!
- Make and Take! Build a Mini LEGO Princess Leia, the most iconic Princess in the entire galaxy!
- Scavenger Hunt! Explore “R” store collecting the necessary code and Master your “Force” in the scavenger hunt!
- AND Don’t forget to take home a collector’s poster.
- Available in store only. Event for children ages 4 years and up. One model per child. Max. 200 while they last.
- Pokémon Sun and Moon Giveaways!
Saturday, May 6th, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- FREE Pokémon Sun & Moon TCG Guardian’s Rising Collector’s Album and Foil Card Featuring Alolan Vulpix. Max. 200 per store. Available instore only. While they last!
- PLUS the first 50 customers will receive a 2” Eevee Figure!
Click here to view the Toys R Us flyer.
Click here to get more information on this event.
Free prescription drug coverage is coming to Ontario for everyone under 25 years old. All Ontario children and adults younger than 25 will have their full prescription drug costs covered by a new provincial pharmacare program – regardless of family income. The program will benefit around four million people in Ontario and cost approximately $465 million a year. Ontario will become the first province in Canada to offer pharmacare to all its young population, a move announced today in the 2017 budget. Pharmacare will be implemented January 2018.
Around 4400 drugs will fall under the plan. Anyone under 25 covered under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) will also be covered for prescription drugs simply by showing their health card. “One way we can be a competitive and a compassionate society is to make sure that people who need medications get medication,” said Finance Minister Charles Sousa. The plan will help students and “make life more affordable to Ontario families.”
Do you find it difficult to concentrate for long periods of time without reaching for your phone? Or perhaps you’re constantly clicking to open a new tab on your computer to check Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, or whatever your poison is? All of these distractions that have enabled great leaps for human connectivity – maintaining friendships from the other side of the globe as one prime example – have also made it increasingly difficult to stay focused on one task. Step in Fidget Toys.
You can read the full descriptions of each toy on the site, but know that the overall goal of these unique toys is to help ease an anxious mind or keep you awake during a long conference call. What could be better than that?
We’ve rounded up a list of where you can find these toys, as they are rather hot, and what price each of them are being sold for at the various locations around Canada.
Fidget Spinners:
Fidget Cubes
Fidget Toys
Tim Hortons Canada, Canada’s all-time favourite coffee shop, is introducing two new stellar items to their menu. The first will be great for waking up in the morning, while the second will help coast you through lunchtime.
For the mornings, Tims lovers will have new espresso lattes to enjoy – for the very favourable price of $2.99. The lattes will be handcrafted with steamed milk and 100% Arabica espresso beans. The latte will come in one standard size and so will be consistently sold at the low price of just $2.99; for those of you who don’t regularly drink lattes, these hand crafted drinks will normally run you between $4-$5 at other coffee franchises.
The second addition to Tim Hortons menu is the Turkey Jalapeno Jack Croissant Sandwich. This new sandwich from Tims will include jalapeño Monterey jack cheese, smoked turkey breast, lettuce, tomatoes and honey mustard sauce all sandwiched between a traditional croissant. If this sandwich doesn’t tickle your fancy, you can also try the chicken salad croissant, which has white meat chicken and Tim Hortons creamy chicken salad sauce.
Click here to find the nearest Tim Hortons to you.
Taco Bell Canada is the latest fast-food chain to jump on the alcohol serving train. The company announced that, due to a steady growth in their Canadian retail locations, they will begin offering alcoholic beverages to legal aged customers in select locations across Canada beginning in 2017.
The move comes after several other fast-food chains have been experimenting with the idea of serving alcohol at these usually alcohol-free restaurants. A more successful example of this trend was KFC, while Starbucks has decided to halt the operations of their evening liquor sales in the US (though they will continue with expanding this program across Canada).
Taco Bell has seen a 28 percent growth in the Canadian market in just the past five years, and they plan to capitalize on this attractive market by growing their current chain of 160 stores across the country to 700.
The first location to be testing out this beer and tacos program will be none other than the Toronto Queen St. West location.
Click here to find the nearest Taco Bell Canada to you.
“Do you want to build a snowman?” If you, like me and the rest of the world, are only just getting that hit song from the animated movie “Frozen” out of your head, then you had better prepare your ears (and your temperament) as Disney has finally announced the official release date for the movie’s sequel, “Frozen 2”, along with a number of other greatly anticipated films.
As originally reported in Variety Magazine, fans of Elsa and Olaf can expect to see the whole gang reunited on November 27, 2019. The originally cast and crew will be coming back, as the studio has confirmed that both Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel will be returning as the loving singing sisters, Anna and Elsa.
In the Star Wars universe, Disney also announced when the official end to the revival trilogy would be. “Episode IX”, the series that began with “The Force Awakens”, will release the last instalment of the reboot on May 24, 2019. But continuing with a new spinoff from the Star Wars universe will be the Han Solo anthology film, which will be coming out almost exactly a year earlier on May 25, 2018.
The Han Solo movie, which is still untitled, has a star-struck cast from young Hollywood, including Donald Glover, playing Lando Calrissian, Emilia Clarke (more commonly known as Khalessi on HBO’s “Game of Thrones”), and Alden Ehrenreich as the young Han Solo.
Other honourable mentions from Disney’s list of upcoming releases included the live action “The Lion King”, which will also star Donald Glover, due out on July 19, 2019 and a live action “Mulan”, due out in November 2, 2018.
Click here to read more about the new releases from Disney and Lucasfilm.
Bebe, which models itself as a purveyor of “unique, sophisticated and timelessly sexy” clothing for women, said it plans to close the stores by the end of May 2017, according to a regulatory filing on Friday.
Last month, the California-based chain had hinted that something like this could happen. Bebe said in an SEC filing last month that it was “exploring strategic alternatives.” Earlier this month, the company said it planned to close 28 stores and was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of them. Before that announcement, Bebe had 168 stores in the United States and Canada.
Bebe Stores Inc. was founded in 1976. The company name is inspired by Shakespeare’s words, “To be, or not to be.”
They had me at free! Enjoy free coffee or any hot beverage throughout the week at 7-Eleven Canada. Just scan their 7REWARDS app to get a FREE 12oz hot beverage every day. This 7-Eleven promotion is valid from today, April 24th, until April 29th 2017.
Click here for more information on 7-Eleven Canada 7Rewards app.
Beauty lovers rejoice. For years, Ulta had many exclusive brands and products and did not ship to Canada but now you can get your hands on all of those goodies. While they are not opening any Ulta stores in Canada and still ship from the US you can order from their website with a number of shipping options including BorderFree where you prepay the taxes and brokerage so there are no surprises at the door.
Prices are shown in Canadian dollars so you know exactly what the item will cost you. There are various options for shipping and you can get free USPS/Canada Post delivery when you spend $100 Canadian or more. Just choose Postal as the option when checking out and it will reduce the shipping charge to $0.
If you want to prepay taxes or spend less than $100, shipping is very expensive. Even for a small package, the prepaid taxes option was $22 for my order plus $20 in taxes – on a $120 order with two small items! So well worth spending $100+ to get free shipping. Canada Post will charge a fee of $9.95 to pay taxes for you, plus whatever duties or taxes are applied if it gets caught at the border – but I often get packages over the minimum with no taxes applied.
One of the issues has been free gifts with purchase. The checkout page will not let you proceed without adding the free gift option but some of them are not found in the international database. Some products from the main Ulta site are not available for shipping to Canada either, so make sure you choose Ship to Canada (found at the bottom of the page) before shopping.
Shop Ulta’s global shipping site here.
Flying nowadays has become a pricey endeavour. Between needing to pay for checked bags, extra bags or even carry-on bags, it sometimes feels like hopping in your car and driving might be the more budget friendly option – though this option won’t really get you across the Atlantic/Pacific. WestJet Canada has recently recognized that their low-cost carrier services that initially made them so popular in 1996 when they first opened have become difficult to maintain, especially with their more than a 100 worldwide destinations and state-of-the-art aircrafts.
That is why WestJet has decided to launch a new ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) at the end of 2017. This ULCC is a kind of carrier that has become more popular in the past few years with other airlines. The airline essentially strips a flight of all the additional frills to a very low price, and then with each additional ‘frill’ you add to your flight (e.g. airport check-in fee, checked baggage, etc.) you will add an additional expense to your flight.
The carriers are also more densely packed than regular airlines, but the prices are much cheaper than others making those tighter quarters more bearable. WestJet has yet to give an official name to this ULCC, but they have said that they plan to launch officially by the end of 2017, hopefully in time for you to begin booking inexpensive holiday travel.
You can learn more about the launch of the ULCC from WestJet Canada here.
Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc. is recalling Longo’s brand Ontario Lean Ground Veal from the marketplace due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination.The recalled product was sold from the Longo Brothers Fruit Market located at 5636 Glen Erin Drive, Mississauga, Ontario. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.
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.
Miss Vickie’s Canada is recalling Miss Vickie’s brand Jalapeño Kettle Cooked Potato Chips from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
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 Salmonella may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems may contract serious and sometimes deadly infections. Healthy people may experience short-term symptoms such as fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Long-term complications may include severe arthritis.
Click here to read more information about this recall.
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