Viola Desmond will be the first woman on a Canadian banknote. Finance Minister Bill Morneau says she’ll be on the $10 bill when the next series goes out in 2018. Desmond is often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for sitting in a whites-only section of a New Glasgow, NS movie theatre in 1946.
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Counterfeit credit cards confiscated
Three men and a woman are facing fraud charges after police found a counterfeit credit card operation at a hotel.
Staff at the Chebucto Inn called police after they found a counterfeit credit card. Police searched a room and found false I-Ds, fake cards and card making equipment. Three of the people arrested are from Montreal and the fourth is American.