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As the price of oil hovers around $90 a barrel and gasoline prices jump, thieves around the world are stealing licence plates, attaching them to their own cars and then driving off without paying after filling up at the pump.

I know where Noel Murray is coming from when he says he finds it harder to guess the prices on The Price is Right, and that the contestants have increased trouble getting it right, too. I was never great at guessing the prices, in part because I’m in Canada and we have different dollars, but I do think the contestants used to be better than me at knowing these things, and now they often seem to know even less than I do. The last time I saw the basically stupid but incredibly popular “Plinko” (I know why it’s popular, but I still feel like it’s wrong for the format of the show), and the contestant was playing the first part of the game where she has to guess between two numbers in the price of a product, I was astonished at how many of them she missed.

Books once cost 21 per cent more in Canada than in the U.S.; the price gap has narrowed