Closer Look - Insightful, credible, unfiltered conversations that matter
In cities and towns across Ontario — and at Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill — our journalists work for you. Their mission is to dig for answers and tell you what they find. This new podcast from Village Media — ‘Closer Look’ — is all about the stories we tell. Every weeknight, hosts Michael Friscolanti and Scott Sexsmith go beyond the headlines with insightful, in-depth conversations featuring our reporters and editors, leading experts, key stakeholders and big newsmakers.
Closer Look - Insightful, credible, unfiltered conversations that matter
Sign up here to get your slice of the $500M bread price-fixing settlement
If you bought a loaf of bread sometime over the past 20 years — and really, who didn’t? — you’re entitled to some dough.
Claim forms are now open for the $500-million class-action settlement over the alleged price-fixing of bread products in Canada.
Any Canadian resident who purchased packaged bread for personal use between Jan. 1, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2021 — including buns, rolls, bagels, naan bread, English muffins, wraps, pita and tortilla — is eligible for compensation. No proof of purchase is required.
Claims must be submitted before Dec. 12 at www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca.
How did we reach this point? Which grocery giants participated in this elaborate conspiracy to inflate prices and gouge customers? And how much money will you actually receive if you sign up?
Jay Strosberg has all those answers, and many more, on tonight’s episode of Closer Look. A Windsor-based lawyer at the firm Strosberg Wingfield Sasso, he launched the class-action lawsuit that ultimately led to the half-billion-dollar settlement with Loblaw Companies Ltd. and George Weston.
As Strosberg tells us, this is one of those shocking court cases worthy of a movie script.
Hosted by Village Media’s Michael Friscolanti and Scott Sexsmith, and produced by Derek Turner, Closer Look is a new daily podcast that goes way beyond the headlines with insightful, in-depth conversations featuring our reporters and editors, leading experts, key stakeholders and big newsmakers.
Fresh episodes drop every Monday to Friday at 7 p.m. right in your local news feed — and on the show’s dedicated website: closerlookpodcast.ca. Of course, you can also find us wherever you get your favourite podcasts.
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