Volkswagen is continuing its efforts to weather its emission-rigging storm. Under dark grey skies, we see five people dressed in green windbreakers holding up a long black sign that says "Das Problem" printed in white block letters. They appear to be atop a Volkswagen facility of some sort as the company's round blue-and-white logo stands at the left of the photo.

Volkswagen is continuing its efforts to weather its emission-rigging storm.
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Volkswagen scandal inching to resolution

The Canadian owners of over 100,000 Volkswagens implicated in the company’s emission-rigging scandal will have details in June about how the issue will be resolved.

A U.S. court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that Volkswagen owners in the U.S. will either be able to sell their vehicles back to the company of have them fixed.

The deal applies to Canadian owners as well.

The court decision did not specify what owners would be paid or how the cars would be fixed and ordered all parties to keep the specifics of the agreement confidential until full details are filed in court on June 21.

In a release Thursday, Volkswagen Canada said owners do not need to take any action at this time and they will be provided with next steps once they are available.

Following an investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Volkswagen admitted last September that some diesel cars had software installed to cheat on emission tests.

The carmaker has said about 500,000 cars in North America, including 107,000 in Canada, had cheated emissions tests.

Volkswagen has said the 11 million vehicles world-wide were affected. That included some five million cars made by its core Volkswagen brand.

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