"Necessity is the mother of invention" and that’s what motivated a retired Ontario woman to create a network for other women who found themselves retired and unable to afford rising housing costs. Average rent across Canada is up about 20 percent from pandemic low and still rising. So Pat Dunn of Peterborough founded "Senior Women Living Together", to help others find roommates to share rising housing costs. Christine Ross caught up with the resourceful 73 year old, and former public health nurse, who calls this her mission.

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Canada Bread will pay a historic fine of 50-million dollars after pleading guilty to its role in a criminal price-fixing arrangement that raised the wholesale price of fresh bread. This country’s Competition Bureau says it's the highest price-fixing fine ever imposed by a Canadian court. Canada Bread admitted it arranged with its competitor, Weston Foods, to increase prices for various bagged and sliced bread products. It’s the first time any companies besides Loblaw and Weston admitted to being involved in the scheme since the story broke in 2015. We reached Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director with the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, to ask is if this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to food price fixing.