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I heard on CBC radio the other day about the class action lawsuit against Loblaws for price fixing. They mention the website to sign up and join the suit, I didn’t write it down and can’t find it online anywhere. Does anyone know where you can join in?

You mean the bread thing? Yes, you can register for a $25 refund starting tomorrow for the bread price-fixing thing.  
 
http://www.macleans.ca/news/heres-how-to-get-25-from-loblaws-after-it-admitted-to-fixing-bread-prices/

No, the lawyer on the radio advised against accepting the $25 gift card as it may disqualify you from the class action. It was the lawyers website where you sign up for the actual class action suit.

I googled "Loblaw class action suit" & came up with this  
 
http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/class-action-commenced-alleging-national-grocery-chains-and-bakeries-fixed-price-of-packaged-bread-656098583.html

I would take the gift card.  
 
With class action suits, the 'plaintiffs' generally get next to nothing in the end.  
 
Lets say they sue for $1 Billion. No court would ever award what was asked. They generally award a lesser amount. Factor in court costs, and lawyers fees (look up ANY previous class action case, and you will see lawyers take a massive chunk, absolutely no less than 70 to 80% of the overall award after costs). Look at tobacco companies as a classic example of how class action suits only benefit the lawyers. I dont know of a single 'group' of smokers who got paid in Canada.  
 
In the end, should the case be won, you will probably receive less than $25. If the case is lost, you will receive nothing, the lawyers whine, and Loblaws cancels the gift card offering because they were cleared.  
 
The lawyer says don't accept the gift card ONLY because he is looking out for himself, and wont have a case if people accept it.

I think the thing to think about in this matter is whether accepting a $25 gift card from Loblaws (which likely translates into about a $10 cost to them in actual product) is a sufficient amount of punishment for a price fixing scheme in which Canadians overpaid to the tune of perhaps thousands of dollars in bread items over what is said to be a minimum 14 year period. Bread is a staple food that everybody eats. Households with children may go through several loaves of bread each day. So if you are OK getting bought out of a situation that has you paying many hundreds (or perhaps even thousands) of dollars over a 14 year period in a price fixing scheme, and want to let them get away with it over a $10 gift-card buyout, then go ahead and take the buyout. I don't really care about the $25 gift card myself. I would prefer to sign up for a class action lawsuit, and make the penalty of fixing prices on essential food items extremely punitive, and as a deterrent to these companies that sell us foods, so that I don't end up paying thousands of dollars more on other schemes down the road. Personally, while I would like to get some money back, I don't really care who gets the money. If a lawyer wants to take on the fight on his own dime, then all the power to him for dragging these Loblaws sleezeballs through the courts, and making them pay billions of dollars to settle such deceptive schemes. In the end, it looks like you can likely get your $25 gift card and also join in on the action. If everybody joined the action, I would imagine it is possible that some day you could see some recovery of perhaps upwards of $100 each person. But also remember, this is not an ordinary class action. It was filed by an individual that represents the homeless population and those that are impoverished, so I think you might just see a push to have some of the benefits of this class action go to many of the folks who really need it: perhaps even food banks. Join the class action. I can say that regardless of the amount of the end payout, watching Loblaws squirm through this will be worth your time.  
 
Edited by JoeSixpack, 2018-01-08 12:45:58

I am just cut and pasting a comment that I read today on CBC's comment forum concerning Loblaws lawsuit. Not sure how accurate it is, but if it is it is [kinda wierd how those two words just went together] definitely worth sharing:  
 
 
A lot of people say they will give their card to a food bank. A food bank can purchase about 5 times as much as an individual for the same amount of money.  
 
Another, better way to help the food bank is to keep the card for your own groceries, and donate $25 and get a charitable donation receipt and get back $10 or so at tax time.  
 
The best would be to donate $40 to the food bank, get tax receipt for about $15, and use the card for your own groceries. The food bank could buy about $200 worth of food with your $40, and you would come out breaking even.

I worked for a subsidiary for many years. There was a action filed on behalf of the subsidiary Associates against the parent company. It was thrown out after months and millions of dollars spent.  
The fact they offer a compensation upfront is something they do not have to do and is not going to be submitted as an admission of guilt in the courts.  
The case will likely end without any payout or most going to the lawyers.  
It is nice to think you can get something but it will likely not happen.  
Take the $25 card. Use it if you have to, donate it if you can.  
(It is deducted from any payout, if that happens)