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Flaherty's credit-debit code tougher than expected
Ottawa gives merchants more clout in negotiations with card processors.
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Canadians may not notice much difference in the way they use plastic to make purchases.
But federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's voluntary code of conduct for the credit and debit card industry has fundamentally changed the rules of the game, merchants and consumer advocates say.
Among the highlights:
•Banks will no longer be able to issue premium credit cards that cost merchants more to process without first asking consumers whether they want them
•Credit card companies, like Visa and MasterCard, will not be allowed to enter Canada's low-cost debit market by piggybacking on the existing Interac Association network.
•Merchants who accept a company's credit card can't also be required to accept their debit product. And they can terminate contracts with payment processors who raise or introduce new fees.
"It's a huge victory for us," said Diane Brisebois, president and chief executive officer of the Retail Council of Canada.
"We got almost 95 per cent of what we wanted," said Catherine Swift, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
"It's much better than we expected," said Anu Bose, a spokesperson for Options Consommateurs, an influential Quebec- based consumer group.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers also welcomed the announcement.
TD Bank said it would sign on to the code immediately, as did the Interac Association.
"We think the minister did a good job of balancing the interests of all the participants," said Jeff Van Duynhoven, president TD Merchant Services. TD is one of the few banks that hasn't outsourced its merchant services division to a third party.
BMO Financial Group also said it "strongly supports" the code. It wasn't immediately clear what BMO will do with the estimated 1.5 million co-badged debit cards it has issued that are no longer compliant with the code.
Visa Canada said it "is concerned that it (the code) does not go far enough in creating an environment that encourages meaningful competition in the Canadian payments arena, and favours merchants at the expense of consumers."
The country's largest payment processor, Moneris Solutions, said it needs more time to examine the proposals.
Flaherty has given the industry 30 days to adopt the code and another 90 days to bring their practices into line with its provisions.
Otherwise, he repeated his earlier threat that he would regulate.
There are already signs Visa and MasterCard may be altering their business plans in response to the new environment, some industry members said.
Flaherty's announcement comes in response to complaints from merchants and small business about rising credit card fees, which they say now add 2 per cent, or $4 billion a year, to the cost of processing card payments.
As Visa and MasterCard prepared to enter Canada's low-cost debit market this year, merchants feared those payment processing fees would rise as well.
Flaherty moved to address both issues.
"The code gives merchants more clout in negotiating credit and debit card processing fees and should lead to lower costs for consumers," Flaherty said at a press conference at Toronto's Eaton Centre.
The Consumers Association of Canada said it welcomed the code but encouraged consumers to "haggle" with merchants to ensure they pass on any savings.
The Interac Association, which operates Canada's existing debit network, said the code helps provide a level playing field.
"It's a good day for the health of the Canadian payment system," said Mark O'Connell, president and chief executive officer of Interac.
The Royal Bank of Canada directed reporters to the Canadian Bankers' Association statement, which said it supports choice and competition. "The banks will now examine those parts of the code that pertain to their operations."
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION!! SEAN HANNITY, OF HANNITY & COLMES ~ FOX NEWS, IS GOING TO AIR A VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BARACK OBAMA, SUNDAY NIGHT, 10/12 AT 8:00 PM. HE STATED ON THE AIR THIS EVENING THAT NO ONE IN THE NEWS MEDIA WAS WILLING TO DO THIS. HANNITY IS GOING BACK TO OBAMA'S EARLIER DAYS, SHOWING EVEN THEN HIS TIES TO RADICAL PROFESSORS, FRIENDS, SPIRITUAL ADVISERS, Etc., HE STATED THIS EVENING THAT HE WILL SHOW IN DETAIL HIS TIES TO REV. WRIGHT FOR 20+ YRS (which we all know) HOW HE WAS PARTICIPATING WITH THIS MAN, AND NOT FOR THE REASONS HE STATES! HE HAS UNCOVERED MORE OF OBAMA'S RADICAL LEADERS AND WE WILL SEE THINGS THAT NO ONE IN THE MEDIA IS WILLING TO PUT OUT THERE. THIS WILL BE A NIGHT THAT YOU WILL KNOW MORE ABOUT OBAMA THAN EVER BEFORE. HANNITY IS VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND ASKED THAT EVERYONE PLEASE, PLEASE WATCH ~~ SUNDAY NIGHT, Oct 12, 8 PM. HANNITY IS DETERMINED THIS INFORMATION BE PUT OUT THERE BECAUSE AS AMERICAN'S, WE STILL DO NOT KNOW ABOUT OBAMA!! WAKE UP AMERICA!! GOD BLESS!! |
Oct 12, 2008
I believe this program is at 9PM, not 8PM. We need to get the word out.
Oct 12, 2008
Yes everybody NEEDS to watch this.
I heard FOX was not holding nothing back You Obama people can spam and judge all you want YALL CAN NOT HANDLE THE TRUTH |
Oct 12, 2008
What is so funny to judge that this world is F#### up and you dumbass people thinks Obama is going to fix it? Never in my life have I seem such people that are brainwashed as I have for this election. Yall are JUST STUPID.Last name, DOES THAT TELL YOU ANYTHING? Not putting his hand over his chest for the USA! DUH!!!!!! Go ahead we will be like Iran. You people are putting one of their own in the White House. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Don't make it a black and white issue. Look at the facts of who Obama is and how he can destroy our country. I got to get some sleep for tonight, catch you later |
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Oct 12, 2008
Another propoganda hit job from Faux News. Don't forget to watch the followup about the satanic alien conspiracy.
Oct 12, 2008
So you have already see the program. It's great to so well informed. |
Oct 12, 2008
Most of us don't waste our time watching television. Vote Obama/Biden.
I guess you think Joe is a terrorist also. This country has gone to hell without the help of the democratic candidate that you are so damn scared of. Vote McCain and be in the poor house or in a food line soon. |
Oct 12, 2008
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Oct 12, 2008
This should be interesting to watch if they present the real truth. So far, Fox, CNN and all the other national network media have had nothing but good to air about Obama. Unless you listen to Christian stations or internet news sources like "One World Daily.net ", you would thing that Obama is the saviour of the world. Maybe if the truth is really presented by Fox, enough Americans will see it and spread it to wake the ignorant voting public up before it is too late.
Oct 12, 2008
Does anyone know what form J.C. is returning in? I don't think so. Think people, don't come off as the country bumpkins you all are!!
Oct 12, 2008
I should have known this was a trick. It was at 8pm. Hussiien Obama will finish off our country and give it to the muslims. Wolverines! wolverine! wolverines! |
Oct 12, 2008
Not only that, but when he raises taxes on businesses, prices to the consumers will go up. He has been asked several times in the debates what programs will he have to delay or cut because of the current financial situation. He always side steps the question meaning he will raise taxes. A tax increase by any other name is still a tax increase. Everybody except Obama knows that you do not increase taxes in anyway during a recession or economic slow down or what ever you want to call it. |
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Oct 12, 2008
Did anyone watch the show?
Oct 12, 2008
Every bit of it. I thought Prez McCain and Vice Prez Palin did a fantastic job. Didn't have to diss Obama, the facts speak for themselves. Seriously folks, you would think Americans would weigh the choices and see who is the best choice for our country, but I strongly suggest that if you believe in the Almighty God, get real with Him the next 23 days. The unthinkable could happen, but if enough Christians pray earnestly about it, I think we'll be alright. Get on your knees, people!!! |
Oct 12, 2008
we can't afford bombya hussien obama in there. Just think before you pull the switch. Switch as in if it's the wrong one it could be a death sentence.
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Oct 12, 2008
How about it going to hell with a Democratic Congress. In case you haven't noticed that is who has been in charge since 2006. Congress makes and passes laws not the President. So if you think the Democrats are the answer think again. Who has been the champion of Freddie & Fannie?? OBAMA, in fact their executives are running his campaign. Oh, another item for you. The little cafe that Joe said you could go to to find out how his people felt closed 20 yrs ago. He is really in touch isn't he. Wake up |
Oct 12, 2008
Not quite right about the Diner thing Ditch Doctor. Do some research next time rather than parrot the talking heads you hear on tv. http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/secondhel... |
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Oct 13, 2008
Not that I give a flip about Biden's faux pas other than to laugh a little, but I can't help but point out your link doesn't in any way solve the mystery of Katie's. In fact it goes a bit toward substantiating that he made a mis-statement. Again, not that it should determine whether to vote for someone. |
Oct 13, 2008
I am a Christian and I am voting for Obama.
First off John McCain left his wife and children for rich Cindy McCain. I thought that Christians believe in staying married. Palin believes the the same as Joe Biden when it comes to homosexuals rights. Both Obama and Joe Biden are very educated. McCain was 5th from the bottom of his class of 700 and Palin Speaks for herself. I would hate to see what would happen if she became the president. Please look at the big picture. Don't be tricked by fools with good intentions. The problem is that they just don't know what they are talking about. |
Oct 13, 2008
You need to look at the "big picture" yourself. How can you possibly make the statements you've made IF you are aware of who Obama really is?
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If the next few months weren't already proving to be exciting enough for Linux fans with the many
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to come, continued open-source GPU driver improvements, more Linux improvements as a result of Valve's Linux gaming push, and Wayland beginning to take shape (on non-Ubuntu distributions), there's even more. Fedora 21 is aiming to be the first tier-one Linux distribution with "out of the box" OpenCL support.
A new feature proposal for Fedora 21 is to bring basic OpenCL support to Fedora for OpenCL-enabled software and to further CL development in general. The feature proposal is to enable Mesa's OpenCL "Clover" state tracker by default and packaging key OpenCL compoonents like
The Gallium3D OpenCL state tracker in conjunction with the Radeon driver (and to some extent Nouveau) can run basic OpenCL workloads like BFGminger to harvest some bitcoins, but it's incomplete right now for being a complete OpenCL 1.x implementation for exploiting the compute power of modern GPUs. Fortunately, AMD and others are making good progress on advancing its capabilities to become usable and more comparable in support to the CL capabilities found in the proprietary AMD / NVIDIA drivers. With Fedora 21 there will be Mesa 10.1 or potentially Mesa 11.0 and hopefully by then will be some decent OpenCL usage capabilities to make enabling the state tracker worthwhile.
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That's what I got when I called myself in sick in HS. I never said I was anyone else, just referred to myself in the third person and said I was ill/sick. Called me into the office the next day of school and said it was for "forgery/falsification" and I argued it and asked the dean to play the message. She got all bitchy and eventually said they deleted the message.
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Swiss player Michel Morganella has been expelled from the Olympics for tweeting a message that the Swiss team said "gravely insulted and violated" the dignity of South Korea after his team's 2-1 defeat a day earlier.
"As a member of the Swiss Olympic mission he gravely discriminated, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korean football team and the South Korean people," Swiss team chief Gian Gilli told reporters.
The 23-year-old is the second athlete to be expelled by their own team over a racist Twitter comment at the first Games where social media are an integral part of the athletes' daily lives.
Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was thrown out of her nation's team last week, two days before the Games started for a racist comment regarding African immigrants in Greece.
In his message, with some syllables jumbled, for which he was expelled, Morganella said on Monday morning: "I punch you, South Koreans, go burn..." The rest of the message was considered sufficiently offensive by the Swiss team for Morganella to be sent home.
Gilli, who only read out a statement in German and did not take any questions, said Morganella's comments were in direct violation of the International Olympic Committee's and the Swiss team's ethics codes.
He said Morganella, who has already left London, had been "provoked" on Twitter but his response was unacceptable.
"As a consequence of this behaviour Michel Morganella, having conferred with the Swiss Football Association, is immediately stripped of his Olympic accreditation and all future participation in the Olympic tournament.
"The Swiss team will now focus entirely on the next match. I wish the team inner peace and serenity," Gilli said.
The player himself said he accepted the sanction and apologised.
"I made a huge mistake after the disappointing result. I wish to apologise to the people in South Korea and their team, but also to the Swiss delegation and Swiss football in general. I obviously accept the consequences for my actions."
The Swiss, third in Group B, play Mexico in their next game on Aug. 1 which is also Switzerland's national day.
Gilli said he had also - unsuccessfully - tried to contact the Korean team.
"We would like to apologise, especially to the South Korea National Olympic Committee and the South Korea Football Association for the behavior of the player," he said.
"We hope that he will draw the necessary lessons for his still young football career," he said of Morganella.
The London Games are the first Olympics where social media are so widespread. The IOC has urged athletes to tweet but to always respect the Games ethics code which all teams and athletes have signed. (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, Editing by Ossian Shine and Justin Palmer)
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Recently, a TIME magazine article discussed the amount of cheating taking place at Harvard University. This gave us an opportunity to reflect upon a tradition at Queens University of Charlotte that has stood the test of time - our honor code. It is posted on the walls of buildings and put into daily practice by students. It is a part of our special culture.
In "honor" of our honor code, following is an excerpt of a speech delivered recently by Queens' Student Government President Joseph A. Vaughn during the university's Fall Convocation ceremony.
A Different Perspective on Cheating
Raise your hand if you've read and signed the Queens Honor Code? My hope is that all of you raised your hands. If you didn't, well, I'll talk with you later...
Of all the unique traditions at Queens, the Honor Code, and particularly the academic portion of the Honor Code, is perhaps the most remarkable. As students we may not realize just how extraordinary our Academic Honor Code is and what it represents for our university and ourselves.
The Honor Code does more than tell us not to cheat or hold our peers accountable if they cheat. It's a pledge for "truthfulness and absolute honesty in the performance of all academic work" that cannot be taken lightly.
It says something about our journey as students, from our first semesters as freshmen to our final semesters as seniors. As I address you all today, I'd like to share my perspective on what I think that is.
What does it mean to cheat? And why does a student cheat rather than admitting ignorance or failure? Cheating isn't just the acceptance of not knowing the answer to a question. It's a personal affirmation of indifference to the answer. In other words, a student cheats when he or she doesn't know the answer to a question AND doesn't care to know the answer. A cheater, therefore, is a person who doesn't care about his or her own education.
Think back to your high school exam-taking experiences... proctors floating around the room, constantly peering over you as you work, checking to make sure you haven't tattooed the answers to your right forearm.
Now take a memory leap to your first exam at Queens. Here's what I remember about my first accounting exam:
Our professor walked in with around 20 nicely stapled books in her hand. She passed them out, answered our preliminary questions, told us when to begin and then promptly left the room. She came back to check on us every so often, but she didn't sit at the front acting like the proctors I remembered from high school.
So how could a Queens professor drop an exam and leave the room with absolute faith that none of her students would break under the tension and cheat? Two reasons. First, she knew she had taught us well and that we were smart enough to answer every question correctly if we'd studied.
Second, she had faith that students at Queens have such a respect for, and understanding of, the value of their educations that they'll study as hard as they can, answer each question to the best of their abilities, and admit failure or plain ignorance before they'd ever consider cheating on their exams.
The Queens Honor Code is personified by all of us. It means nothing without us, without our pledge to uphold it. Without our commitment, it would just be another document. We represent a student body that is special in the world of education, one that defends the purpose of education and declares its incontestable value in our world.
When you accepted Queens University as your guide through higher education (and when, in less than a year you seniors will accept Queens as your beloved alma mater) you declared yourselves life-long learners.
I am proud to serve such a student body, and wish all of you the best of luck in the upcoming school year.
--Joseph A. Vaughn is a junior at Queens, a Byrum Scholar and an accounting major currently working as a finance intern at Siemens.
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