Hair dye - bright colours

Street Cents gets a group of colour-brave teens to test three brands of semi-permanent hair dye for us. We want to find out which brand gives the best colour and which one has the staying power you want in a hair dye.

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Who makes the best video gaming system?

Axe Effect

Merina Dobson from Winnipeg, Manitoba says she hates the ad campaign for Axe Effect body spray. She says she's sick and tired of advertisers telling young women that, "men want unintelligent, immoral, promiscuous women with no will of their own."

Unhealthy Health Foods

"Low-fat," "Healthy," "Light." Do these food label claims really mean anything? Street Cents takes a look at some popular snack foods and finds some of them aren't really that much better for us than the "Regular" variety sitting beside them on the shelf.

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Badminton racquets

Lauren Giang of Calgary, Alberta wants to know why there is such a wide range in the price of badminton racquets. He also wants to know whether or not it's worth it to spend extra money on an expensive racquet.

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Where do you go when you want to be alone?

Foreign-exchange students

Street Cents visits Souris, PEI to meet Jillian Townshend and Marta Biasetti, the Italian exchange student who's staying with her. Marta is living with Jill's family for 10 months as part of an Education First: Foundation for Foreign Study (EF) exchange program. Street Cents discovers what it's like being on an exchange and what it's like to host a student.

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Respect the teen server

Lindsay Smith of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia works part-time after school and on weekends. She enjoys the work, but says she and other teen servers like her could use just a little more RESPECT from the clientele.