By Commodity News Service Canada

Oct. 4 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.

– The investigation into the Las Vegas massacre has turned to the gunman’s girlfriend, who arrived back in the United States following a visit to the Philippines. Marilou Danley, 62, is being questioned by officials who are trying to find out why Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas On Oct. 2 killing 59 people.

– Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surprised premiers at yesterday’s first ministers’ conference with a plan to charge a 10 per cent federal tax on sales of recreational marijuana and split the revenue with the provinces.

– A Swiss, a British and an American scientist have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for chemistry, it was announced today. They were selected for developing cryo-electron microscopy, which freezes biological molecules for observation by researchers.