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Financial fraudsters will have to face longer sentences now that the federal government has passed part of its tough-on-crime legislation. Bill C-21 stipulates that white-collar criminals who commit financial fraud of more than $1 million face tougher sentencing.

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was in Montreal on Tuesday to announce the legislative change. 

Judges now also have the power to consider aggravating factors in cases of fraud. For example, they can the age of the victims and the amount of money stolen. 

That is welcome news to people like Joey Davis. His parents were defrauded by West Island fraudster Earl Jones.

However, Quebec is speaking out against the costs associated with the federal government’s omnibus crime...

Posted by Jacqueline D on November 1, 2011 in Article | 0 comments.

Air Canada 777-200LRAir Canada is withdrawing its court challenge of a pension deal for its service workers. The company announced its decision in a statement emailed on Tuesday. It wrote that it was more important to create a climate of stability for unions and employees than to challenge the deal.

The pension plan is part of a collective agreement reached over the summer with the Canadian Auto Workers union. Arbitrator Kevin Burkett’s ruling defined a pension plan for new hires in customer services that is part...

Posted by Jacqueline D on October 26, 2011 in Article | 0 comments.

BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900/9930Research In Motion presented its new operating on Tuesday at their software developers’ conference in San Francisco. The BBX system is an expanded version of the software currently used, and will be installed on the next generation of BlackBerry smartphones and Playbook tablets. 

RIM is expected to launch their new line of BlackBerry smartphones early in 2012. They did not specify a...

Posted by Jacqueline D on October 19, 2011 in Article | 0 comments.

BlackBerry Bold 9780Research in Motion CEO Mike Lazaridis announced service on the Blackberry network had been restored worldwide on Thursday. Blackberry users across Canada had been grinding their teeth in frustration on Wednesday after a network failure in Europe early in the week led to a worldwide Blackberry service disruption. An unknown number of Canadians were left without access to their messaging service and to internet on their smartphones.

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Posted by Jacqueline D on October 13, 2011 in Article | 0 comments.

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October 10th 2011

Posted by Jacqueline D on October 10, 2011 in Article | 0 comments.