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Quebec unrest generates more than 3,000 news reports in 77 countries: analysis | StratRisks

Quebec unrest generates more than 3,000 news reports in 77 countries: analysis

S ource: Globe & Mail

The civil unrest consuming Quebec is also seizing media attention abroad — with more than 3,000 news reports from 77 different countries in recent weeks.

That’s according to an analysis released Monday by Montreal-based company Influence Communication, which is monitoring Canadian and foreign media coverage of the conflict.

INFLUENCE ANALYST CAROLINE ROY SAID THE STUDENT CRISIS GENERATED 66-TIMES MORE FOREIGN NEWS COVERAGE IN TWO MONTHS THAN CANADA’S ENTIRE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN — THIS COUNTRY’S MOST EXTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL UNDERTAKING SINCE THE KOREAN WAR.

“It’s pretty significant and I would say that we have rarely seen Quebec get so much coverage internationally,” Ms. Roy said.

She said the volume of foreign coverage spiked a couple of weeks ago, after Quebec adopted an emergency law that sets out to clamp down on demonstrations with strict rules and steep fines.

The nature of the coverage has shifted, even inside Quebec.

Earlier in the dispute, 79 per cent of news stories focused on the tuition-fee increase that initially ignited the student movement. More recently, however, only four per cent of the Quebec-based coverage has focused on the tuition hikes, the analysis said.

Lately the government has been attacked over its Bill 78, which critics are calling unconstitutional and trying to defeat in legal challenges. There have been more protests, in more cities, with more diverse crowds, since the legislation was adopted almost two weeks ago.

“All the tensions caused by the special law, led to an increase in the number of reports,” Ms. Roy said.

“It’s still going up.”

Ms. Roy said foreign headlines about Quebec are usually related to subjects such as Montreal festivals, Cirque du Soleil, the provincial film industry and natural resources.

“But right now it’s been completely eclipsed by the student conflict, and it’s coverage that has lasted for several weeks,” she said.

She added that much of the recent news wasn’t positive.

A significant part of the coverage, she said, focused on nightly demonstrations in Montreal and their sometimes-violent confrontations between police and protesters.

The analysis found that in the last two weeks 39 per cent of what was written about Montreal, from around the world, included at least one of the following expressions: “massive arrests,” “riots” and “violence.”

Some international coverage has painted the protests in a more favourable light. Writers who follow the Occupy movement have been covering the situation in Quebec, even describing it as an inspiration for other social causes.

The company examined newspaper, TV, radio and online coverage of major international media organizations between March 22 and May 28. Influence monitors major media outlets in 160 countries.

It also analyzed coverage within Canada.

In Quebec, local media had already dedicated 20 per cent more news reports to the student crisis than their exhaustive, years-long coverage of the sponsorship scandal.

Influence found that the student conflict had already attracted more media attention in Quebec than any other story since 2001.

The unrest also generated more headlines in the province in a one-week period than any other event since 2001, except for 9-11, the 2010 Haitian earthquake and Barack Obama becoming president.

“But these were international events,” Ms. Roy said.

“The student conflict is truly a subject that’s purely Quebecois.”

via Quebec unrest generates more than 3,000 news reports in 77 countries: analysis | StratRisks.

Entertainment One sees 33 per cent rise in profits to £43m | Manchester Evening News – menmedia.co.uk #NoAgenda

Entertainment One sees 33 per cent rise in profits to £43m

May 28, 2012

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Entertainment One, which distributes television and music, as well as film, reported a 33 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £43m in the year to March 31.

The group said The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 helped its film division lift revenues by 17 per cent to £272m, as it hit number one at cinemas and on DVD in the UK and Canada.

Meanwhile, animated children’s favourite Peppa Pig remained the number one pre-school property in the UK in terms of television viewing figures and retail sales of toys.

The Twilight films, based on the books by Stephenie Meyer, have made stars of its leads, Robert Pattinson as the lovelorn vampire Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart, who plays high school student Bella Swan in the film.

But the group had 152 theatrical releases in total in the period, up from 121 the previous year and bringing in £135m at the box office.

The group said it also benefited from its tie-up with Amazon subsidiary Lovefilm, which grants the latter exclusive rights to Entertainment One releases.

The television division saw revenues surge 43 per cent to £97m as it delivered shows including US wild-west drama Hell on Wheels and legal drama The Firm.

Peppa Pig continued her global dominance as the show became number one on pre-school charts in Australia, Spain and Italy.

UK revenues across all divisions were ahead 25 per cent, driven by the digital sales boost from the Lovefilm deal, Entertainment One said.

Looking ahead, the group said the UK had a strong run of theatrical releases in 2012/2013, including a film adaptation of 1970s police drama The Sweeney, starring Ray Winstone and rapper Plan B, and action sci-fi film Looper, starring Bruce Willis.

The group also confirmed it was in talks to buy Alliance Films, a Canadian peer best known for co-producing The Kings Speech.

Shares were slightly higher after today’s results were published. Steve Liechti, analyst at Investec, said the results were as expected.

via Entertainment One sees 33 per cent rise in profits to £43m | Manchester Evening News – menmedia.co.uk.

Director Of Spain’s Failed Bankia To Leave With €13.8 Million Termination | ZeroHedge #NoAgenda

Director Of Spain’s Failed Bankia To Leave With €13.8 Million Termination

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/29/2012 08:09 -0400

European Central Bank fixed Germany Newspaper Prop Trading

If those in charge are still confused why the general population is not very “appreciative” of the banker social substratum, the following example should provide some color. Following the ever greater public bailout fund black hole that Spain’s Bankia has become (first of many zombies), we now learn that one of its financial directors, Aurelio Izquierdo, will be entitled to €14 million in pension and termination benefits. Supposedly in compensation for running the bank straight into the ground after just one year of operation, and lying fabulously about its financial performance, in the process suckering in thousands into investing their hard earned cash so that oligarchs such as Aurelio can promptly retire to a non-extradition locale. And this, dear powers that be, is why the general public continues to scratch its head at how it is remotely possible that incompetent crony capitalists get paid tens of millions for blowing up their firms, while everyone else is stuck footing the soon to be soaring inflation bill (because print they must, and print they will).

More from Delta World:

Bancaja and general Bank of Valencia, Aurelio Izquierdo, former financial director is entitled to a pension for cessation of 13.8 million euros, according to the annual report of bank financial and savings (BFA), matrix of Bankia, corresponding to 2011.

In accordance with the information contained in the report submitted to the National Commission of the market of values (CNMV) and Tuesday indicated in various media, Izquierdo would receive this payment in respect of the insurance policy contracted to his retirement, death and disability, which joins a savings insurance by early retirement.

“Box of the savings bank of Valencia, Alicante, Castellon, Bancaja, has made the following commitments with a person during the year 2011 was part of the high Directorate of the Bank and causing the same low 13 October 2011: 7.633 thousands of euros in a policy of defined contribution covering the contingency of retirement, death and disability””, and 6,285 thousands of euros in insurance of individual savings contribution defined to cover the option of that, under certain circumstances, the person taking by early retirement”, explains BFA in its report.

The compensation to which he was entitled was already known, but it is the first time that it appears fixed in a public document.

According to the newspaper ‘Expansion’, the now Chief Financial Officer of Bancaja, Aurelio Izquierdo, published in March has an armor that could charge about 14 million euros if he ceases the entity between compensation and pension, which has not gone through the governing bodies of the entity or it has been reflected in the report of the Council.

So… with one hand taxpayers (either those of Spain, or of Germany, assuming Spain “bails out” Bankia with more debt, which is then pledged at the ECB as worthless repo further diluting the value of the joint currency, and whose unwind costs are now solely footed by Germany) are paying billions to preserve the illusions that Spain’s zombies are in check, while on the other they fund the expatriation costs of the bank’s former directors before all those who have lost everything – investment and deposits – come knocking on Aurelio’s door? Fear not: according to El Pais:

According to sources of the Finance and Savings Bank (BFA), that money will not come out of the accounts of the entity, but from Bancaja, and therefore “not a single euro” of the 23,500 million of public money will go to pay such compensation.

Oh, ok, so this is money of the non-fungible variety. Something like the JPM deposit cash not being used to fund JPM’s prop trading operations.

Got it. That makes everything so much better.

via Director Of Spain’s Failed Bankia To Leave With €13.8 Million Termination | ZeroHedge.

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Friday Humor Part 1 – The Reverse Nigerian Scam Email | ZeroHedge

Friday Humor Part 1 – The Reverse Nigerian Scam Email

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2012 13:25 -0400

Greece

Best if read in the context of the “Nigeria gets out of Dodge” post from earlier.

Dear Nigerian Scammer,

I am a Greek Prince desperately trying to get my money out of the country but because of restrictions on the amount of money one can take out of Greece I’m worried my vast wealth will disappear when my country is booted out of the Euro.

I need you to let me transfer the sum of 38,000,000 Euro into your bank account as a matter of great urgency.  I am willing to pay you 75% of this deposit in return for your help.

If you agree to help, please send me your bank account details and your sisters vital statistics.  You will have to send me the transfer fees of 76,000,000 Euro or the bank won’t put the money in your account.  Do this immediately, my terminal illness will prevent me completing the transfer if you don’t send me all your money now.

Please hurry, my fortune is vaporising quickly.

Phillip.

via Friday Humor Part 1 – The Reverse Nigerian Scam Email | ZeroHedge.

Quebec protests resume after mass arrests – FRANCE 24 #NoAgenda

25 MAY 2012 – 08H11

Quebec protests resume after mass arrests

Students march during a protest against tuition fee increases May 24, in Montreal. Thousands of protesters returned to the streets across Quebec in defiance of a new law regulating demonstrations and despite the arrest of some 1,000 protesters this week.

AFP – Thousands of protesters returned to the streets across Quebec in defiance of a new law regulating demonstrations and despite the arrest of some 1,000 protesters this week.

The latest protests came after the Canadian province’s government invited student groups to talks in a bid to end more than three months of protests over a proposed university tuition hike.

In Montreal, thousands of residents hit the streets at 8:00 pm Thursday (0000 GMT), banging pots and pans and chanting against Law 78, a measure passed last week requiring activists to notify police ahead of demonstrations.

The students were joined by retirees as well as families with children, all marching in a festive atmosphere.

At least three separate processions were under way, with protesters chanting: “The special law, we will win!” despite an appeal from Montreal’s mayor for residents to remain at home and bang pots on their balconies.

A similar demonstration attended by some 500 people was held in the provincial capital Quebec City, and other demonstrations were reported elsewhere in the province.

As with previous demonstrations, police declared the protests illegal but said they would not seek to disperse them unless there was violence.

The provincial government had earlier Thursday invited the student groups to a new round of talks, which could be held as soon as early next week, according to the head of one of the student unions.

Protests, some of which have turned violent, have raged for over three months against a plan by provincial premier Jean Charest’s government to raise annual tuition fees at Quebec universities by 82 percent, or $1,700, with the increase gradually introduced over five years.

Montreal police had said that Wednesday night’s unsanctioned protest would be tolerated if there was no trouble, but after some unruly behavior around midnight, they moved in and arrested 518 demonstrators.

Another 176 people were detained in Quebec City. All were issued with a fine exceeding $600 and released early Thursday, a police spokesman said.

It was the first time that law enforcement conducted such a large mass arrest in the French-speaking province.

On Sunday night and early Monday morning some 300 people were arrested and 10 injured in a night of clashes between Montreal police and demonstrators.

via Quebec protests resume after mass arrests – FRANCE 24.