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Blue Ant Media Go Public Acquiring Boat Rocker Media Reverse IPO

Blue Ant Media Go Public Acquiring Boat Rocker Media Reverse IPO

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Indie studio Blue Ant Media, producer of unscripted series like Canada’s Drag Race and Northwoods Survival, has unveiled plans for a reverse IPO to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange by acquiring assets from Boat Rocker Media Inc. Blue Ant, a private company controlled by former Alliance Atlantis head Michael McMillan, will go public via a reverse-takeover of Insight Productions, Jam Filled Entertainment and Proper Television picked up from Boat Rocker Media. As part of the deal, Boat Rocker Media will acquire all shares of Blue Ant, at a price of $2.25 each, or a 125 percent premium to the March 21 closing price of Boat Rocker Media stock. After the completion of the transaction, shares in Blue Ant Media Corp. will trade on the TSO. As part of the transaction, Blue Ant shareholders are expected to own a 73.5 percent stake in the Toronto-based media company, with Boat Rocker Media shareholders retaining a 26.5 percent holding. Blue Ant said it generated CAN$196 million (US$137 million) in revenues in its most recent fiscal year ending …

At least nine people die, six missing as boat sinks off Tunisia | Migration News

At least nine people die, six missing as boat sinks off Tunisia | Migration News

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Coastguard rescues 27 people on the boat when it broke down and took on water due to bad weather. Tunisia’s coastguard has recovered the bodies of nine people while six are still missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast, a judicial official says of the latest refugee boat disaster in the Mediterranean. The coastguard on Thursday rescued at least 27 people who were on the boat when it broke down and took on water due to bad weather. According to survivors’ testimonies, the boat had been carrying at least 42 people when it sank. Judge Farid Ben Jha told the Reuters news agency that a search was under way for at least six people who had been on the boat when it went down off the coast of Chebba. All people on the boat were from sub-Saharan African countries. Tunisia and neighbouring Libya have become key departure points for refugees, often from other African countries, who risk perilous Mediterranean Sea journeys in the hopes of better lives in Europe. In October, the bodies of …

English Channel search LIVE: Huge operation under way as boat parts spotted | UK | News

English Channel search LIVE: Huge operation under way as boat parts spotted | UK | News

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A huge search and rescue operation is underway in the English Channel after parts of a pleasure boat were discovered washed up on the coastline. The alarm was raised at around 8.45am today (May 9).  RNLI lifeboats and helicopters have scrambled to the scene off Hastings, East Sussex. HM Coastguard is reportedly coordinating the rapid response.  The RNLI said in a statement: “Hastings RNLI all-weather lifeboat launched at 8.57am today after being tasked by HM Coastguard.” A marine tracking website has shown more vessels have been tasked with combing the waters, with the Finnish Navy also believed to be drafted in. Two Border Force boats are also out.  This is an ongoing incident, with more updates unfolding. See the latest in our blog, below. Source link

‘I wanted her to have a future’: Dad’s grief as he buries daughter, 7, crushed to death on migrant boat | World News

‘I wanted her to have a future’: Dad’s grief as he buries daughter, 7, crushed to death on migrant boat | World News

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There are times when a person is so gripped with helpless despair that they are lost within themselves. Ahmed Alhashimi, a proud man, looks at the small coffin, wrings his hands, stares at the ground and weeps. Inside the bright white coffin is the body of his daughter, Sara. Watched by a small crowd of family members, charity workers, well-meaning locals and even council workers, her coffin is lowered into a grave. Then, for 10 or 15 minutes, a group of mourners work hard to use shovels, and even bare hands, to fill the grave with earth. The mound is patted down, a wooden marker put in place, with her name engraved upon it, and flowers are placed on the grave along with flowers, photos and – crushingly – a favourite soft toy. Image: Sara died after being crushed on an overcrowded migrant boat Image: Watched by a small crowd of family members, charity workers, well-meaning locals and even council workers, Sara’s coffin was lowered into a grave Sara was just seven years old when …

Florida teens seen on viral video dumping trash into ocean from a boat turn themselves in

Florida teens seen on viral video dumping trash into ocean from a boat turn themselves in

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Two Florida teens seen in a viral video dumping trash into the Atlantic Ocean from a boat turned themselves into authorities on Friday and face a felony pollution charge, according to officials and court records. The suspects, a 15-year-old from Gulf Stream and a 16-year-old from Boynton Beach, are charged with one count each of causing pollution, so as to harm or injure human health or welfare, animal, plant, or aquatic life or property, according to arrest reports filed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC. The charge is a third-degree felony and carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $50,000 fine if convicted, according to the arrest report. NBC News does not generally name minors charged with crimes. Boaters dump trash into the ocean off the Florida coast.Wavy Boats / YouTube FWC chairman Rodney Barreto said Friday in a statement that “callous disregard for Florida’s environment will not be tolerated.” “This is a teaching moment for all those involved—Florida’s natural resources are precious, and we should all …

Captain sentenced to 4 years in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat

Captain sentenced to 4 years in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat

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Defendant Jerry Boylan, captain of the Conception, leaves federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Vogel/AP Defendant Jerry Boylan, captain of the Conception, leaves federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday. Richard Vogel/AP LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel. The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and several ongoing lawsuits. Captain Jerry Boylan was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer last year. The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter. It was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. Family members pleaded with U.S. District Judge George Wu to give Boylan the maximum 10-year sentence in an impassioned hearing. Many cried, and Robert Kurtz, father …

Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard California scuba boat

Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard California scuba boat

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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel. The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and several ongoing lawsuits. Captain Jerry Boylan was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer last year. The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter. It was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. Family members pleaded with U.S. District Judge George Wu to give Boylan the maximum 10-year sentence in an impassioned hearing. Many cried, and Robert Kurtz, father of the sole deckhand killed, Alexandra Kurtz, brought a small container with him up to the lectern to address Boylan and the court. “This is all I have of my daughter,” he said. Yadira Alvarez is the mother of 16-year-old Berenice Felipe, …

Labour would allow thousands of small boat migrants to claim asylum in UK | Politics | News

Labour would allow thousands of small boat migrants to claim asylum in UK | Politics | News

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Labour has said it will allow small boat migrants into the asylum system – just as the Rwanda plan is showing signs of working. Individuals who have arrived in the UK illegally since March last year have been blocked from submitting claims under a law passed by the Tories. It has led to tens of thousands of people being stuck in limbo as they are yet to be deported because the Rwanda scheme is not up and running. A Labour spokesman indicated that those arrivals – currently around 90,000 and expected to rise to more than 115,000 by the end of this year – will be entitled to claim asylum if the party wins the general election. The spokesman said: “The most important thing is that we speed up the way in which claims are being processed, the way in which we then have returns agreements in place and deal with the backlog that there is. “The thing that is unsustainable at the moment is the amount of the backlog that there is within the …

Galashiels man Joop Sparkes missing in Prague after ‘jumping off party boat’ | UK News

Galashiels man Joop Sparkes missing in Prague after ‘jumping off party boat’ | UK News

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A Scottish holidaymaker has gone missing during a weekend break in Prague after witnesses reportedly saw him jump off a party boat. Joop Sparkes, 29, travelled to the Czech Republic with friends on Friday and had been enjoying the capital city’s bars and nightclubs. On Saturday night, the group departed on a party boat that sailed off from outside the President Hotel Prague. During the early hours of Sunday morning, while his friends were at the bar, Mr Sparkes was witnessed jumping into the Vltava river “for a swim”. Mr Sparkes, from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, has since failed to appear or get in touch with his family and friends. His sister, Jodie Wilson, told Sky News: “We’re going through so many emotions. “One minute we’re all breaking down and falling to bits, but then we realise that we’ve got to hold it together because we need to focus and put all our effort into finding him.” Image: Pic: Family handout Ms Wilson travelled to Prague on Monday. She has been accompanied by Mr …

Jeff Goldblum says he won’t financially support his kids when they’re older: ‘Got to row your own boat’

Jeff Goldblum says he won’t financially support his kids when they’re older: ‘Got to row your own boat’

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Jeff Goldblum has become the latest celebrity parent to declare that his children won’t be able to rely on his money when they get older. The star of the Jurassic Park films has two sons with his wife, Emilie Livingston: Charlie, eight, and six-year-old River. During a recent appearance on the iHeart podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, Goldblum, 71, noted that the children would have to financially fend for themselves as adults. “‘Hey, you know, you’ve got to row your own boat,’” Goldblum said, sharing the explanation he’ll impart to his sons in the future. “It’s an important thing to teach kids. I’m not going to do it for you. And you’re not going to want me to do it for you,” he continued. “You’ve got to figure out how to find out what’s wanted and needed and where that intersects with your love and passion and what …