Category: 3. Business

Fraudulent QR codes imitating parking payment instructions were discovered in Whistler, B.C., and the municipality is warning the public that they might have fallen victim to credit card fraud.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) said the fraudulent QR codes were imitating pay-by-phone payment signs.

The stickers were discovered on pay parking terminals in Whistler Day Lots one to five, and also on signs along Main Street and Lorimer Road.

Staff believe the stickers were only up for 12 hours before the parking contractor notified the bylaw team.

A total of 24 stickers were discovered on Dec. 27, and all of them were removed by the next day.

“Nobody has come forward yet to say they were a victim,” said RMOW spokesperson Penny Buswell Lafrance.

Certified cybersecurity expert Claudiu Popa said people should be wary of sticker QR codes.

“If a QR code looks like a sticker, ignore it,” Popa said. “If it looks like you can peel it off yourself, then chances are it’s not legitimate.”

He does not believe this type of scam will go away anytime soon due to the ease fraudsters have in setting one up.

“It’s a very, very low barrier to entry. It’s basically free to get into it, and really, it’s the cost of a sticker that allows any fraudster to enter this lucrative business,” Popa said.

RMOW said the QR codes have been reported to the RCMP, but Popa said tracking down the culprits of the stickers can be difficult.

“They could literally travel to Canada for a couple of days, put up 1,000 stickers and go back to their home country and defraud Canadians for as long as the scam works,” Popa said.

Municipal parking in Whistler does not use QR codes for payment.

Staff will continue to monitor the parking areas to prevent this from happening.

We came into our fifth session on December 29 having passed everything across to the Employer and were hoping to get responses in the morning. The Employer took until 1pm to pass across a proposal, which did not include economics. Despite the delay, we had productive conversations around the proposals that were passed. After we received the responses from the Employer, we worked diligently to get them back counters to their proposals. We moved on many topics and had valuable discussions about issues to help contextualize why we are making some of our proposals.

While we were waiting, our team met our new Union Rep Penny Cramer! Penny will be the Union Rep for the RNs immediately and will take over the Service and Tech units early next year. We also conducted Steward and leadership training to help our Bargaining Team understand the power of having strong Stewards in our workplaces and how we can all become one.

Because we have continued to make progress, we agreed to a one-month extension of our contract with the Employer and we are hoping to continue to make progress in our next session on January 7.

Lundin Mining Announces Updated Share Capital and Completes Share Buyback for 2025

December 31, 2025

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 31, 2025 /CNW/ – (TSX: LUN) (Nasdaq Stockholm: LUMI) Lundin Mining Corporation (“Lundin Mining” or the “Company”) reports the following updated share capital and voting rights, in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act.

The number of issued and outstanding shares of the Company decreased by 1,399,950 to 854,347,591 common shares with voting rights as of December 31, 2025. The decrease in the number of issued and outstanding shares from November 30, 2025 to date is the result of share buybacks completed under the normal course issuer bid (“NCIB”), offset by the exercise of employee stock options or the vesting of employee share units.

Normal Course Issuer Bid

The Company is committed to delivering shareholder returns through a balanced approach of dividends and share buybacks. In 2025, Lundin Mining acquired 15,088,180 common shares at a cost of approximately US$150 million, completing its targeted annual allocation of approximately US$150 million in annual share buybacks through its NCIB program.

About Lundin Mining

Lundin Mining is a Canadian mining company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with four operating mines in Brazil, Chile and the USA. We produce commodities that support modern infrastructure and electrification. Our strategic vision is to become a top ten global copper producer. To get there, we are executing a clear growth strategy, which includes advancing one of the world’s largest copper, gold, and silver projects in the Vicuña District on the border of Argentina and Chile, where we hold a 50% interest. Lundin Mining has a proven track record of value creation through resource growth, operational excellence, and responsible development. The Company’s shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (LUN) and Nasdaq Stockholm (LUMI). Learn more at www.lundinmining.com.

The information in this release is subject to the disclosure requirements of Lundin Mining under the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out below on December 31, 2025 at 16:00 Pacific Time.

SOURCE Lundin Mining Corporation

For further information, please contact: Stephen Williams, Vice President, Investor Relations: +1 604 806 3074; Robert Eriksson, Investor Relations Sweden: +46 8 440 54 50

But the Warrington couple are still cutting back on luxuries to cover bills.

“We get a rise on our pension but it gets taken off you by food, petrol and everything else going up all the time so really you don’t benefit,” he said.

There is some hope on the horizon in spring, though. In the Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said some levies placed on energy bills would go, lowering bills for millions of households by £150 a year from April.

That included cutting a scheme that was designed to tackle fuel poverty and help reduce carbon emissions, as well as shifting some costs onto general taxation.

People on fixed deals in April would still benefit from the changes, the government has confirmed.

However, about £30 will be knocked off those annual savings from April to pay for maintaining gas networks and strengthening the electricity transmission network.

There are also signs of lower wholesale costs, paid by suppliers.

Analysts at energy consultancy Cornwall Insight predict an 8% drop in the price cap in April – the equivalent of a fall of £138 to £1,620 a year for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity.