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JUST IN: Walgreens is being taken private in a deal valued up to $23.7 billion, following a largely disastrous run on the public markets. cnn.it/3F7d83E

L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100 As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.

L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state politicians and threats on his life, died last month. He was 100.

Opinion: A counter-offer to the president-elect: Why not let Canada buy Alaska? Let’s see if we can beat Donald Trump at his own game of manifest destiny

Love this idea. He's got my $10.80!

Opinion: Will Trump’s ‘economic force’ threat kill Canada’s very identity as trading nation? U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has said he would be willing to use ‘economic force’ to persuade Canada to agree to a political union with the United States

Will Trump’s ‘economic force’ threat kill Canada’s very identity as trading nation?

The latest from the Globe's business commentary, by Jeff Mahon:

Ok, so Trudeau will resign as party leader and prime minister after the Liberal party picks a new leader though a "robust, nationwide process." Says he can't be best option in next election "if I’m having to fight internal battles".

The tradition of town criers is slowly dwindling. But those who are left vow to cry to their last breath Only about 50 town criers still exist in Canada, many of them taking up roles as city ambassadors

Oyez, oyez, oyez.

There are only about 50 town criers left in Canada.

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Bench Accounting shuts down abruptly, leaving customers in a year-end lurch Vancouver company had raised more than US$100-million from Shopify and other large tech investors

Vancouver's Bench Accounting is done. Shopify (one of Bench's investors) blames "bad investors" who forced out co-founder Ian Crosby in 2022 for the bookkeeping startup's collapse.

Hundreds of jobs lost, thousands of customers left in a lurch. What a mess.

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How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.

#ICYMI: ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.

Even my 2yr old daughter is astounded by what’s in @theglobeandmail.com this weekend! (But she still enjoys it ☺️)

Corus paid bonuses to executives this year as its shares collapsed Shares at the company fell 90 per cent over the course of the year, yet it paid out just under $13-million in compensation to four current executives and two who departed

Just *six* executives (4 current, 2 former) at Corus Entertainment received $13-million in total compensation this year (equivalent to nearly two thirds of the struggling company's total market value!)

With @davidmilstead.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

"Not panicked, but not in denial. Everyone was just kind of – there, waiting to see.
Except for one person. One person was really there, and that person was Ms. Freeland, who appeared just inside the doors of the dining room a little after 7:30 p.m. wearing a Liberal-red dress..."
(paywall)

Tributes pour in for late FNMPC CEO Niilo Edwards Head of FNMPC helped drive important vehicle for economic reconciliation in Canada

Really sad news. www.biv.com/news/economy...

🧪 Great to see a lot of Australian academics following these last few weeks!

Hello! I am a science journalist. I have one piece of advice: Please talk to us. Tell us about the cool shit you're working on. Find writers you enjoy and ping them. I always want to hear about interesting science !!!!!

China’s Tencent uncloaked as mystery lead backer of Neo’s $100-million-plus financing Digital bank challenger declined to reveal name of investor in financing backed by prominent Canadian tech entrepreneurs

Calgary-based banking startup Neo did not reveal its lead investor when it announced a new financing and has rebuffed queries about its identity.

Turns out it is China's Tencent.

I loved getting to assist on this @seansilcoff.bsky.social scoop www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Kick-start for carbon credit market after loose rules agreed at COP29 Final agreement overcomes a dispute about how much power would be given to a proposed UN registry

Kick-start for carbon credit market after loose rules agreed at COP29

https://www.ft.com/content/cc0cba2f-751a-4909-806d-c975c15feeea

Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour It is Friday night on a forested military base in western Finland. A group of women dressed in camouflage with matching purple beanie hats…

Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia

Opinion: The automation of writing is almost here. But what will happen to us if we cede our written language to AI? Our written language has always been blurred by vague usage, clichés and careless generalities. But the advent of AI-generated text brings a far riskier degradation

“We’re building a future where we aren’t even the narrators of our own story.”

Scary, poignant prose written by an actual human being that is well worth a read.

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Ancient clay cylinders reveal what may be world's oldest alphabetic writing The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Seems like the lowest-hanging revenge fruit for a guy who has built an entire political philosophy on the idea of retribution. Should be obvious to everyone, especially the team in question.

House Democrats prepare to make Mike Johnson's life hell There is "going to be enormous pressure" on Republican centrists to break away,

There is "going to be enormous pressure" on Republican centrists to break away on any GOP-only legislation, as the party now holds an agonizingly small House majority.

One Democrat said of flipping GOP members: "It's hard, but it can be done ... it can stop a lot of bad things from happening."

Baidu’s supercheap robotaxis should scare the hell out of the US The vehicle costs less than $30,000 to manufacture.

Baidu’s supercheap robotaxis should scare the hell out of the US

Canada’s largest bottled water producer to pull out of Ontario BlueTriton Brands plans to wind down its operations in the province by the end of January and sell a Guelph-area bottling plant

If you buy a 1.5-litre-bottle of locally extracted water at a convenience store in Ontario you're paying more than 3,000 times the producer cost for the water itself
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• Food items, including chips, candies, baked goods, all prepared meals, catered meals,
• Beverages, including pop, bottled water, beer and wine, and coolers with up to 7 per cent alcohol content
(2/2)

The items that will be exempt from the GST in the recent announcement include:
• Kids' clothing, footwear, diapers, car seats
• Select toys for kids under 14, including puzzles and video games
• Print newspapers and printed books
• Natural and artificial Christmas trees
(1/2)

MPs unanimously condemn alleged Iran plot to kill Irwin Cotler Bloc motion praises former justice minister’s ‘contribution to the defence of human rights and the fight against racism and anti-Semitism’

MPs unanimously condemn alleged Iran plot to kill Irwin Cotler: Bloc motion praises former justice minister’s ‘contribution to the defence of human rights and the fight against racism and anti-Semitism’

When the KKK came to Saskatchewan The infamous organization, by giving voice to existing prejudices and anxieties, became a force in the province. By 1929, the Klan boasted 25,000 members in some 125 locals or ‘klaverns’

When the KKK came to Saskatchewan:
"...the infamous Klan entered Saskatchewan in 1926 just as the white, Anglo-Protestant majority was distressed by the changes that society was undergoing after the First World War."
gift link for first 20 readers
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TD Bank’s venture into the peculiar world of alien gold coins and other precious metal collectibles The online store of TD Precious Metals has quietly become one of the largest purveyors of gold and silver items in Canada’s retail market, introducing custom-themed items that go beyond the traditiona...

Among the many fun things I learned in this delightful @jasonkirby.bsky.social piece: “numismatics” is the study and collection of coins/currency (!)

Definitely worthy of my first-ever post on this platform www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I love walkable neighborhoods neighborhoods because I don’t want to go far for stuff. No big conspiracy. I’m just lazy.

First post and likely the best one.