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Chip-based credit cards have dramatically reduced fraud in Canada, but researchers expose new security gap
The EMV standard - or the smart cards created by Europay, Mastercard and Visa that store data on integrated circuits - has been implemented in Canada and around the world as means to beef up security. Since its introduction, it has been credited with reducing credit card and debit card fraud, between 2008 and 2014, by 68.37 per cent 89.49 per cent respectively.

But researchers have found a new flaw in chip-based credit cards that could leave many consumers exposed to potential theft. According to CNN Money, payment-technology company NCR demonstrated at the Black Hat computer security conference last week how thieves can rewrite the magnetic-stripe code also found on the cards and confuse machines being used in transactions into ignoring the security measure. NCR said this method of getting around the chip technology is possible because retailers are upgrading their payment machines without encrypting the transaction. ca.yahoo.com

Two months after first strike against Visa, Walmart mum on follow-up
On June 11, Walmart launched a shocker when it made a bold pledge to stop accepting Visa at its more than 400 Canadian stores. That left Canadians waiting and wondering when their Visa cards will be rejected at their neighbourhood Walmart.

But close to two months later, the retail giant has only made one small move: On July 18, it dropped the credit card from its three locations in Thunder Bay, Ont., whose population is slightly over 100,000. Walmart announced the countrywide ban to protest what it calls Visa's "unacceptably high" merchant fees. But the delay in any action beyond Thunder Bay leads some business experts to suspect that - with Visa not yet giving in - Walmart may be close to backing down. cbc.ca

K-Mobile To Hire 100 Syrian Refugees to Work in 250 New Stores
Today the founder and Chief Executive Officer of K-Mobile, Shami Munir, joined with Ontario's Premier and MPP Don Valley West Kathleen Wynne at the grand opening of Canada's first K-Mobile store, to announce that 100 Syrian refugees will be hired as employees once the company expands to 250 stores across the Greater Toronto Area. newswire.ca

Former Ben Moss employee cut without severance, files complaint
Dozens of full-time employees were laid off at the Ben Moss Jewelers head office in Winnipeg, as the company prepares to close its 54 locations across the country. "I wasn't expecting it this soon, it blindsided me, I was in shock," said Sime, who was ensured her job in accounting would be safe until the end of the year. Sime about the 26 other employees let go by the company last week. According to those former employees, the company cut off their pay on the same day they were given termination letters and did not offer severance packages. She has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Labour Board and said since then a dozen more former Ben Moss employees have followed her lead. ctvnews.ca

Toronto police raid 3 marijuana dispensaries
As governments lay groundwork for legal recreational pot next spring, Toronto police keep raiding medicinal marijuana dispensaries and want the public to help them continue. Officers raided three dispensaries Monday, seizing 21.5 pounds of pot products, $15,841.05 in cash and laying Criminal Code drug charges against six men. thestar.com

Aritzia to open second-largest Canadian location this month

 



Grande Prairie tops list of most dangerous cities in Canada
For the second straight year, Grande Prairie was the worst among Canada's 100 largest cities and police districts, according to a Maclean's analysis of Statistics Canada's collection of police-reported figures. Not only has Grande Prairie long been more violent than Alberta's largest city, and the nation, but crime has surged 64 per cent since bottoming in 2010. The city was Canada's worst in both non-violent crime and violent crime in 2015, which taxed an understaffed local RCMP force and eroded citizen confidence that Grande Prairie was safe.

Grande Prairie scored triple the Canadian average on the StatsCan measure, which weighs reported crimes by their seriousness, giving more heft to the worst offenses, such as murders, robberies and serious assaults. macleans.ca

Cold Lake, AB: 7-Eleven fight leads to deadly car chase
Mounties received a complaint about a fight involving two men at a 7-Eleven, where a man who appeared to be intoxicated was allegedly waving a knife, RCMP said in a press release. The armed man drove away in the SUV before RCMP arrived at the convenience store.

An RCMP member then located the SUV on Highway 28 and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the man failed to stop and began to drive erratically. Moments later, the officer came across the two-vehicle collision involving the SUV and the truck. The SUV was in a ditch, and the driver - a 36-year-old man whose name will not be released - was declared dead on scene.
ctvnews.ca

Whitehorse store owner credits police for quick response to break-in
The owner of a downtown Whitehorse business says his store's security system - and a quick response by local police - helped thwart an attempted robbery early Sunday morning. cbc.ca


Grande Prairie, AB: Two charged in violent convenience store robbery

Sidney, BC: Drunk man with mental health issues takes child from Save-on-Foods grocery store

St. John's, NL: Man sought in early-morning armed robbery spree of two stores


Robberies & Burglaries

Ayer Convenience - Moncton, NB
Circle K - St John's, NL
City Pawn - West Kelowna, BC
Hollywood Deli - Rutland, BC
Jolly Giant Convenience Store - Campbell River, BC
Mac's Convenience - Morinville, AB
Meadia Solutions - Whitehorse, YT
Shell - Hague, SK
Shoppers Drug Mart - Nanaimo, BC
Subway - Barrie, ON
Ultramar - St. John's, NL
Unnamed Business - Tweed, ON
Unnamed Gas Station - Saskatoon, SK
Unnamed Gas Station - Saskatoon, SK


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