Marketplace sent the DNA of two mixed-breed dogs, one purebred dog and one human to four different dog DNA companies. Nearly all the results were different.

With Vancouver and Toronto vacancy rates at less than two per cent and rental prices surging, residents on modest or fixed incomes are being priced out of their communities and forced into what one expert calls 'deplorable' conditions.

A CBC Marketplace investigation into CDI College, one of Canadas largest for-profit career colleges, has found a pattern of misleading practices being used to pressure would-be students into signing up for online programs that can cost upward of $20,000.

With inflation at a 40-year high, CBCs Marketplace looks at the ways companies are passing increased costs on to consumers.

Long waits for elective surgery in Canada's health-care system left one teenage boy in Peachland, B.C., feeling like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, he said, as he waited nearly two years for surgery to treat his scoliosis. Its a crisis that has some doctors pushing for private care, while others urge Canadians to keep their faith in the public system.