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'Pink tax' sees women pay 43% more than men for personal care products: report
Women in Canada pay a "pink tax" premium of more than 40 per cent over what men pay when it comes to personal care products, according to a recent study.

Data mining company ParseHub says women pay a six per cent premium on the average priced razor, shampoo, soap, deodorant and shaving cream for women and men. A woman would pay $47.57 and a man would pay $44.84.

However, ParseHub points out that the products for men and women are often sold in different quantities, complicating comparisons.

In a blog post published, Sheetal Persaud said the discrepancy between what women and men pay becomes more apparent when prices are broken down to a per-unit basis, such as the cost per 100 mL or 100 g.

ParseHub said it looked at over 3,199 personal care products from walmart.ca, well.ca and loblaws.ca.

After the products were grouped as for men, women, unisex and kids, Parsehub said they were than categorized into five groups: deodorant and an­tiper­spi­ran­t; razors; shaving creams and lotions; soaps and bodywash; and hair care.

Adding up the price premiums that women paid for the average price per unit in each of those groups, Parsehub said women pay 43 per cent more than men.

Average per-unit prices for body care products reveal the premium women pay, according to data mining company ParseHub.

For women looking to avoid paying extra, Persaud suggests buying unisex products.

"Most unisex products are either budget items so you'll save money, or natural/organic products so you'll be paying for better in­gre­di­ents, not a gender based mark-up," she wrote.

"Al­ter­na­tive­ly, just buy products for men," she said.

CBC's Marketplace looked the issue of gender price discrepancies in November 2014 and found some similar results.

The show sampled products at Walmart, Target (before it went out of business in Canada) and Hudson's Bay, and found some instances where women got much less product than men did, while in others they paid more than twice what men did for comparable products from the same manufacturer.

The three retailers said the price gaps reflected differences in packaging, manufacturing costs or ingredients and were not based on gender.

Some jurisdictions in the U.S. bar gender-based price discrimination. New York City has had a law banning gender pricing since 1998, although a December 2015 study by the city's Department of Consumer Affairs found numerous examples of it, suggesting the city may not be able to stop the practice.

A bill to block price discrimination on the basis of gender was introduced in Ontario in 2005, but it apparently never made it past the committee stage.
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Women in Canada pay a "pink tax" premium of more than 40 per cent over what men pay when it comes to personal care products, according to a recent study.


2,000-horsepower American sports car coming in 2016!
We love an underdog, especially when it comes to the topsy-turvy world of upstart supercar companies. We’ve heard plenty of big performance boasts before, but the ones coming from California-based Trion Supercars are some of the wildest ever.

That’s because the Trion Nemesis supercar, said to arrive sometime in 2016, will have a racing version with approximately 2,000-horsepower. That’s about double the power you get in a Bugatti Veyron, and nearly 3-times the firepower in a Lamborghini Aventador.

The Nemesis N1-RR will be the racing version and comes with a twin-turbocharged V-8 (of undisclosed capacity) coupled to an 8-speed sequential transmission. The 2,000-hp on tap will be routed to an all-wheel-drive system, and an available “Predator” mode adjusts the suspension, exhaust, engine revs, cabin lighting and even the exterior body panels to suit those full-bore driving moments.

Sounds pretty crazy, right? Well, the proposed street versions aren’t much tamer.

The Nemesis N1-GT is said to have a 1,400-hp twin-turbo V-8 mounted behind the passenger cockpit, a 7-speed sequential gearbox, and an estimated top speed of 218 mph.

Trion Supercars is also working on a hybrid variant and full-electric version of the Nemesis, both of which will still deliver more than 1,000-hp – and apparently 720 miles of driving range, at least in the hybrid model.

Will it happen? We hope so, if only because we’d like to be first in line to drive anything with this much power under the hood.

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The Trion Nemesis will be the most powerful and quickest car in the world, if it actually makes it to production.


Gerry Spector exiting as Tribune Co. COO
Tribune Co. Chief Operating Officer Gerry Spector, a long-time associate of real estate billionaire Sam Zell, is leaving the Chicago-based media company he has helped lead since Zell took it private three years ago.Spector's decision to leave at the end of the year was announced Tuesday by the four-man executive council to whom he has been reporting since October's resignation of Randy Michaels as chief executive of the parent of the Chicago Tribune and other media properties.

"Gerry has been an important part of our success, and he has been a tireless champion of efficiency and innovation across the company," said the announcement to employees from Chicago Tribune Media Group CEO

Los Angeles Times Media Group CEO

Tribune Co. Chief Investment Officer

who is in charge of the company's two-year bid to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

"(Spector) helped re-focus our efforts during a very difficult 2008, when the economy took a downturn and the advertising environment became extremely challenging," the council's note said. "Gerry’s leadership, creativity and ability to inspire others resulted in substantial financial improvement in our operations in 2009 and 2010."

Bringing aboard Spector and former Jacor and Clear Channel radio executive Michaels was among the very first moves Zell announced upon closing the heavily leveraged deal to take over Tribune Co. in December 2007. Spector first served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer, becoming COO a year ago.

"These are two people who I have absolute unequivocal confidence in," Zell said at the time. "They represent people who can, quote, 'bring new blood' (and) help us rearrange this company for the 21st century."

, although he argued it was

Zell has said he does not expect to have a role with Tribune Co., when it emerges from bankruptcy. Spector, 63, who first allied with Zell as a 25-year-old accountant, held senior management roles in a number of Zell's ventures and played a critical role in building his property management company from scratch. He first became an officer of Equity Financial and Management in 1973.

Like his boss, Spector is a motorcycle enthusiast who traveled the globe as a member of Zell's Angels. A graduate of Roosevelt University and Senn High School, Spector spurned suits and ties for a colorful collection of sweaters but generally maintained a much lower profile than either Zell or Michaels. Spector retired in late 2007 as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Zell's Equity Residential Properties, a role he had held since February 1995, but remained on Equity Residential's board of trustees, serving as vice chairman under Zell. Tribune Co. director Mark Shapiro also serves on the Equity Residential board.
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assistant: Tribune Co. Chief Operating Officer Gerry Spector, a long-time associate of real estate billionaire Sam Zell, is leaving the Chicago-based media company he has helped lead since Zell took it private three years ago. Spector's decision to leave at the...