Marketplace Season 47 Episodes

Episode 1

Tracking Your Trash

"Marketplace" producers go under cover, posing as plastic brokers in Malaysia, to expose the lucrative recycling business; back in Canada, they buy and track plastic waste to see where it really ends up.

Episode 2

Busting The Tech Support Scammers

Marketplace reveals fake technicians claiming home computers or smartphones are compromised and demanding hundreds or thousands to fix them; the RCMP shares things that are being done to stop the scam.

Episode 3

Should You Trust Your Credit Score?

It's easier than ever to check your credit score online, but there is a catch; three people check their scores on Credit Karma, TransUnion, Equifax and Borrowell; the results are surprising; testing a $200 device that claims to stop period pain.

Episode 4

School Violence: How to fight for safer schools

22 mins

Testing schools across the country by asking how many students have attacked other students; asking the kids the same question in an effort to get the truth; David Common confronts school officials about what they are doing to keep students safe.

Episode 5

Shoe Wars: High cost vs. Low Cost

Episode 6

Are noisy restaurants harmful to your health?

Episode 7

Food Fact-Check

Episode 8

Blinded by Blue Lights/Banned from Seniors' Homes

Episode 9

Locksmith Ripoffs: Fake Listings, Fake Reviews

Episode 10

Anti-Vaccination Movement

In a hidden camera investigation, producers go under cover at one of the anti-vaccination movement's biggest rallies in Washington, D.C., to reveal the business behind the false claims.

Episode 11

How to Avoid a Car Rental Rip-off

Three cars, three teams wearing hidden cameras, and one car rental company with a long history of complaints and overcharging. Find out how to fight back against extra fees.

Episode 12

Shady Business

Episode 13

To Catch a Scammer

Episode 14

Counterfeit Crackdown

Buying 100 products from Walmart, Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, and Wish and sending some of those products to a lab to test for toxins; discovering how to avoid buying counterfeit and sometimes dangerous products online.

Episode 15

Broken Appliances: Why you need repairs more often

Episode 16

Shopping Secrets/How to Fly Safe

Revealing the dirtiest surfaces on airplanes, and exposing whether 100% compostable labels on your plastic products are really as green as advertised.

Episode 17

Are You Prepared for the Pandemic?

A report on how to prepare for the corona-virus pandemic.

Episode 18

Is Canada Doing Enough

A look inside Taiwan, where fast action ensured kids were back in school and businesses stayed open; Asha Tomlinson investigates whether the big grocery chains are doing enough to stop the panic and stock the shelves.

Episode 19

Straighter teeth in a box/How Taiwan keeps kids in school during the pandemic

Episode 20

How to fight COVID-19 in Canada