Monday morning news drop
Board votes, backroom deals and betrayal: The battle for control at Rogers The turmoil engulfing Canada’s largest wireless carrier has turned to near chaos as Edward Rogers fights to cement control over Rogers Communications Inc. after being ousted as chair, and CEO Joe Natale and top executives consider a mass exodus from the company. (Globe and Mail)
Edward Rogers fought plans to keep Raptors’ Masai Ujiri, but was thwarted by MLSE head, sources say Edward Rogers actively fought plans to keep Masai Ujiri as head of the Toronto Raptors this summer — saying that he was not worth the amount offered — and then tried to extract an extraordinary benefit for his own company, the Star has learned. (Toronto Star)
‘Bring It On’: Mom Fights Son for Control of Canada Mobile Giant There has perhaps never been a boardroom fight in Canadian financial history quite like the one that’s raging inside Rogers Communications Inc. Pitting son against mother and brother against sisters, it’s pulled out into broad daylight a nasty, internecine feud that had been brewing behind closed doors ever since the patriarch of the family, Ted Rogers, died in 2008. (Bloomberg)
Workers Are Quitting These 4 Kinds of Jobs in Droves The high levels of quitting seems to be a good indication that people are not happy with their jobs — often due to low pay and difficult working conditions — and also that they see better opportunities elsewhere, which is unsurprising given that companies must compete for employees due to a much-heralded labor shortage. The number of job openings in America fell slightly in the most recent report, but it’s still near an all-time high. (Money)
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one. (The Atlantic)
Past Pandemics Remind Us Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades We are living in the Covid-19 era, not the Covid-19 crisis. There will be a lot of changes that are substantial and persistent. We won’t look back and say, ‘That was a terrible time, but it’s over.’ We will be dealing with many of the ramifications of Covid-19 for decades, for decades.” (New York Times)
Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own (Guardian)
When the Culture Wars Came to Liberty City ‘Grand Theft Auto III’ was far from the first controversial video game, but it became one of the most significant ones in the fights over content, ratings, and free speech. Twenty years later, is a similar backlash even possible? (Ringer)
25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see From “Woodstock” to “Amy,” here are the best documentaries that every music — and movie — fan should watch (Salon)