| Arena packed as Bathurst students' funeral begins
Thousands of mourners filled a Bathurst, N.B., hockey arena Wednesday for an emotional funeral service for seven teenage basketball players who were killed in a weekend crash. A soloist sang Ave Maria as people occupied the last empty seats in the K.C. Irving Civic Centre, before municipal and school officials greeted the assembled crowd. Hearses travel the snow-covered streets in Bathurst on Tuesday morning, carrying the students' caskets to the civic centre for a public wake in advance of Wednesday's funeral.(CBC) Community members started lining up early in the day outside the civic centre, which has a seating capacity of 3,500. To deal with a crowd expected to reach up to 6,000, officials set up an overflow area at a smaller, nearby rink where about 700 people could watch the funeral service on closed-circuit television.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Young Jeezy Crashes Lambo! Budden To Shady? Obama Lkes ...
I was told that Terrence J and Rocsi of BET's “106 & Park: might be replaced. Now, that's what people are saying, but it might be, because a casting call allegedly went out for the show new talent. I'm going on record with this: I like Terrence J & Rocsi and I'm not really interested in seeing new people. Sure, I still love Free, but that's a lost cause. Anyway…as always, we'll see!
On the Free tip, I heard she is also working with Obama on his campaigning BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE. Just wanted to clear that up!
YOUNG JEEZY CRASHES LAMBO
Young Jeezy is one of the trap's biggest stars! But, if he doesn't learn to handle that Lambo, he's gonna be trapped behind that wheel! I don't know when this happened, but they are listing Jeezy's white Lamborghini as a fancy car that was demolished.
Soaring and roaring
It's one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods, 50 per cent aboriginal as of the 2001 census. Mullin thundered, in fact, until WICM raised $2.4 million to build Anishinabe Place of Hope, a three-storey, 20-unit transitional apartment building, drop-in centre and church that opened four months ago at the corner of Logan Avenue and Laura Street. Simultaneously, Mullin has been an eagle, soaring on a quest -- guided by elders from Keeseekoowenin First Nation -- to reclaim sacred aboriginal traditions and help her 100-member congregation do the same. In both roles she has persevered against opposition, remaining rock-solid in her faith. Her pet peeve, she says, is hearing comfortable white Winnipeggers dismissively say, "They should just get a job!" about inner-city residents who lack food, clothing, safe housing, family support, education and child care.
The abortion puzzle
THE roughly 4,000 women who sought out abortions in Manitoba over the past year didn't have to face off with large crowds of angry protesters, or pay hundreds of dollars out-of-pocket for the procedure. Caring, or scaring? It's still a battleground But for some, there was a host of other challenges: difficulty getting referrals, problems finding accurate information, and in some cases, lengthy drives from rural towns and flights into Winnipeg from remote northern communities. Twenty years after the Supreme Court struck down the law governing abortion in Canada on Jan. 28, 1988, the environment surrounding abortion rights is significantly tamer. But access to abortion is still limited for many Manitoba women, and getting information about the procedure can be just as challenging.
Housing slump hits Hovnanian hard
The Hovnanians have been building homes in New Jersey for almost a half-century, but the measure of their success was never more indelibly stamped than in a 1992 mishap, when the family's 123-foot yacht sank off Cape May. Outfitted with teak paneling, gold-plated fixtures and other luxuries, the $10 million sport-fishing boat seemed more worthy of an oil sheik than crafters of humble condos. .
Pfizer Arrests Sought in Nigeria
The three are also accused of defying a summons to appear in court last month.Pfizer is accused of killing 11 children and injuring 181 others when an antibiotic called Trovan was tested on them during a meningitis epidemic. But Pfizer denies the claims, saying they were victims of the outbreak which killed 12,000 children in six months. The northern state of Kano is suing Pfizer for $2bn in damages and pressing criminal charges over the test. But the company, as well as denying any wrongdoing, has challenged the jurisdiction of the Kano state court. Presiding judge Shehu Atiku said the three accused, all residents in Nigeria, had been served summonses to appear before the court on 6 November. "But up till this moment none of them has appeared before this court either out of neglect, disrespect or contempt," the judge said before issuing the arrest warrant.
Official: Overseas banks expand steadily in China
Twenty one of these banks --including the Standard Chartered Bank, the Bank of East Asia and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-- have been approved to transform their Chinese branches into locally incorporated banks registered on the mainland. Among them, six have been allowed to provide Renminbi services and five will be able to issue bankcards. Since foreign institutional investors were allowed to invest in Chinese banks in 1996, 35 overseas banks have acquired stakes in 23 Chinese banks, with investment worth 21 billion U.S. dollars. Last week, China and the United States agreed upon specific steps for foreign companies to enter China's financial service industry following a two-day high-level economic meeting.
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