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Net Income Per Share Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Net Income Per Share Information [Abstract]

Basic and Diluted Net Income Per Common Share

The following table sets forth the calculation of the numerator and denominator used in the computation of basic and diluted net income per common share attributable to the Company’s shareholders for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016: 


		Three months ended March 31,
		2017			2016
Numerator:
Net income attributable to Waste Connections for basic and diluted earnings per share		$	14,874		$	44,842

Denominator:
Basic shares outstanding			175,374,630			122,778,290
Dilutive effect of warrants			42,218			27,383
Dilutive effect of restricted share units			518,634			644,911
Diluted shares outstanding			175,935,482			123,450,584




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Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 260
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257

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