JOURNAL NEWS V2: THE FIFTEENTH EDITION

This is the fifteenth edition of Journal NEWS v2 with the VP2K...and now here is the news!

UPDATE!!

...Thanks, Danny.

FANART

-No new fanarts have been released yet, but I am coming with a few ideas--one of them that might be another anti-NaruSaku fanart. Stay tuned!

FANFICTION

-I won't write any fanfictions right now, but I will when the Winter Break starts.

-In the meanwhile, you can visit my FF.net profile just by clicking the link on my deviantID section of my devART page.

NATIONAL

-Landlords of a Calgary rental house have been fined $89,700 for violating several provincial and and public health laws, after a fatal basement fire had happened this January that killed three people.

-A floatplane had crashed in the Gulf Islands at B.C., killing six people and had suspended operations of a small B.C. airline.

-Bob Rae, the Liberal Foreign Affairs critic has slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper over his "reprehensible" suggestion that the Liberals are disparging Canadian soldiers by raising questions about the Afghan detainee affair.

-More controversy over the Harmonized Sales Tax, as two Progressive Conservative MPPs were suspended for the rest of the legislative session in Queen's Park.

-A legal showdown is set to take place in a Quebec courtroom this week pitting the government of Iran against the estate of slain photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. Kazemi's estate and son Stephan Hashemi are suing the Iranian government for $17 million for her arrest, detention and killing.

INTERNATIONAL

-Hundreds of police officers are searching for a man in connection with the murders of four policemen near Tacoma, Washington. On Sunday, at a Forza Coffee Co. store one man fired several shots at the four on-duty cops as they were about to leave the store.

-Iran has seized a yacht full of five British sailors after stopping their racing yacht in the Persian Gulf, the British Foreign Office reported.

-Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region.

-U.S. President Barack Obama ordered military officials to begin carrying out his new strategy in Afghanistan, two days before his speech to unveil a plan that includes the deployment of thousands of more troops.

-Honduras' newly elected President Porfirio Lobo faces an international crisis even before taking office: many countries of the hemisphere refuse to recognize the election's result in the wake of the country's recent coup. Election officials said Monday that the conservative rancher had a strong lead in Sunday's presidential contest and his rival, ruling party candidate Elvin Santos, conceded defeat. But Lobo must now convince the world the election was legitimate, coming as it did five months after President Manuel Zelaya was ousted. Zelaya, holed up in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital, has condemned the vote.

BUSINESS

-The Canadian loonie is at $0.94 USD, while crude oil prices are now at $77.42 USD per barrel.

-The Canadian economy expanded 0.1 per cent in the third quarter, the first quarterly gain since the third quarter of 2008.

-The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that Wal-Mart Canada Corp. was within its rights when it shut down a store in Jonquière, Que., that had been unionized seven months earlier.

-Canwest Global Communications Corp., which is in the midst of a major restructuring, said Friday it lost $111 million in the three months ended in August. Falling advertising sales pulled revenue down by 13 per cent to $624 million.

-Some Canadian retail chains are planning big price cuts this weekend in an effort to keep customers from crossing the U.S. border to take advantage of Black Friday bargains. Wal-Mart's Canadian subsidiary has announced it will drop prices on some items. Sears Canada and Future Shop are also planning big weekend sales to hold on to shoppers.

TECHNOLOGY

-Amazon's e-book, the Kindle has been reported by its company that the sales of the product have been strong in November as well as sending the company's shares to an all-time high.

-The sequel to Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II has beaten sales forecasts by selling more than 1.6 million units in its first week. Sales of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game were up by almost a third compared with sales of the original title, released in 2007, over the same time frame, Ubisoft said. Both games have received critical acclaim for their immersiveness, backed by graphical and audio artistry.

-Rogers is taking notes from Hulu--which is the popular U.S. video portal, with the launch of its own--albeit limited--online hub for television and movies. The cable and wireless company on Monday opened up to the public the beta version of its Rogers On Demand Online website, which lets users watch full episodes of television shows, movies and other short clips. The site launched with 1,500 videos from 15 partners including Teletoon and Super Channel, and plans to add new partners and content frequently.

-The world's largest atom smasher broke the record for proton acceleration today, sending beams of the particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts around the massive machine.

-Twitter is at it again. This time, the term "twitter" has taken the top spot of the world's most popular English word--this year.

SPORTS

-74 days to go until the 2010 Winter Games arrive in Vancouver! Right now, the Olympic torch is in Quebec where it'll be at the city of Saguenay by tomorrow.

-The Montreal Alouettes have won the 97th Grey Cup last night against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Thanks to a Roughrider penalty, the Alouettes managed to squeak past them by winning the game with a score of 28-27.

-Tiger Woods announced on his website Monday that he would not be participating in this week's Chevron World Challenge, an event he hosts to benefit the Tiger Woods Foundation. Woods cited the injuries he suffered in his early-morning, one-car accident on Friday as his reason for withdrawal.

-The Toronto Maple Leafs have won over the Florida Panthers with a score of 6-4. They'll take on the Buffalo Sabres tonight.

-The Toronto Raptors have lost to the Phoenix Suns, 113-94. They'll take on the Washington Wizards tomorrow evening.

OTHER EVENTS/NOTES OF INTEREST

-Well, for this first time in Toronto there hasn't been any snow in November! However, the forecasts say the snow will arrive come next month. So, expect the flurries to pass by in time for X-mas.

And that's it for this edition of the Journal NEWS v2. I'm VP2K, saying see you next time...

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