Victims of the Earl Jones Ponzi scheme will have a greater chance of reclaiming money lost from the illicit scam. A ruling by the Quebec court cancels several contracts still connected to Jones and his victims. This allows the 77 victims to begin to discuss tax reimbursements with the Canada Revenue Agency and Revenue Quebec. Together they paid an estimated three million dollars in income taxes based off of invented interest income created by Jones.

In a turn of events, Concordia’s Judicial Board has reversed the disqualification of Your Concordia from the CSU election. The team is now able to act as Concordia’s Student Union next year and is no longer banned from running for or holding office for two years, as prescribed in Chief Electoral Officer Oliver Cohen’s ruling. Action, however, was not so lucky. The board upheld their disqualification.

In national news, many Canadians decided to cast ballots in advance over the holiday weekend. Elections Canada estimated a 34% increase from the 2008 elections, with over two million votes this weekend. More than 676,000 canadians voted on Friday and over 823,000 voted on Monday.

According to the agency’s preliminary estimates, this represents the busiest days of advanced voting ever.

In federal election news, the Liberal and NDP parties may need to consider merging the centre left, according to one Liberal senator. Sen. Larry Campbell told reporters in Vancouver Tuesday that this may be the only solution to beating conservative leader Stephen Harper.

Campbell said that when the Conservative party merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003, they had little in common. However, he suggested that there is a lot of agreement in the major points of both Liberal and NDP parties.

A local Muslim spokesman says new WikiLeaks documents that describe a Montreal mosque as a terror hub are defamatory.

They claim a Mauritanian terror suspect being held at Guantanamo Bay was the leader of aMontreal-based al-Qaida cell that planned attacks in the States. They also say that members of al-Qaida were recruited and trained at Montreal’s Al Sunnah Al Nabawiah Mosque, where the suspect served briefly.