Friday morning news drop
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant Top executive didn’t inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations (Wall Street Journal)
Make the most of your child's RESP with this year-end planning checklist Jamie Golombek: Consider these planning tips before Dec. 31 to make sure you’re taking full advantage of the RESP (Financial Post)
Inflation Tarnation! Inside the Supply-Chain Snafu That Could Wreck Your Holiday Plans How the wild details of the most memed shipping crisis perfectly illustrate our global trade dilemma. (Vanity Fair)
How post-pandemic inflation ended last time Your great great grandparents weren’t reading articles about the CPI every day because the CPI didn’t even exist until the early 20’s. And if it was published anywhere, it was for government officials and economists, not Fox News hosts. And then, in 1920-1921, there was an 18 month recession that popped the bubble in rising prices and restored inflation to a more moderate pace. This moderation would set the table for one of the most important decades of innovation and economic progress ever. (Reformed Broker)
What’s Wrong With ESG Investing as Explained Through the Medium of Ohio No matter how much you or I might abhor companies that pollute the planet, gouge the sick with criminally high pharmaceutical prices, produce dangerous weapons for public purchase, or poison our democracy with dangerous conspiracy theories, we can’t make the shares of those companies disappear; someone will own them. (Bloomberg)
The science behind the ‘atmospheric river’ that drenched British Columbia Floods and mudslides followed the extreme weather event that dumped record amounts of rainfall on the Fraser Valley (Narwhal)
Mapping the Flood in Abbotsford From the long-gone Sumas Lake, to our worst-case flooding scenario. A disaster visualized. (Tyee)
Pop psychology has killed the villain: Profit is more important than the menace of evil We are all shaped by our experiences, good and bad, but rarely in a clear or simple way. Psychotherapists don’t identify one essential turning point in a client’s life (“Hmm, Dalmatians, you say?”) and then close the case. Sometimes, one can know every factor and still encounter a terrifying, unilluminable void at the heart of a personality. In real life, not everybody who does appalling things is misunderstood. (UnHerd)
Videos of the Week
GOTTA SEE IT: Connor McDavid Dances Through Jets Before Roofing Puck On Connor Hellebuyck
Top 10 Goals from Week 5 of the 2021-22 NHL Season
Vans Surf Presents: Cadavre Exquis | Surf | VANS Exquisite Corpse, from the original French term "Cadavre Exquis" is a method in which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. During 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic, while most of us were in lockdown, we felt the urge to come together somehow. This film was made by women of the Vans Surf team & friends in an attempt to reach across the seas, and create a piece that deeply connected us.
ZERO CHILL follows Reid, Jill, and friends on two trips to the Midwest last winter while riding the new Ride Zero. A snowboard designed to be ridden by anyone, anywhere, any time, with Zero Judgements.
Dillon Butcher on Vancouver Island - Style Speaks Louder Than Words Dillon Butcher flies under the radar. He's quiet, humble and hardworking. But speaking of Dillon and flying, there are few who do it with more style.
The Final Slopestyle Battle of 2021! TOP 3 Runs at Crankworx Rotorua 2021 It all came down to this! Emil Johansson managed to pull off the impossible with now 6 consecutive wins at Crankworx. Johansson took the event win, the Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship and the coveted Triple Crown. Never in mountain bike history have they all been claimed by one rider in a season. With his win in the Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza, Emil Johansson carves his mark even deeper into mountain bike history.
Mark Suciu "Spitfire" Part Mark strikes a scorched-earth campaign on NYC's rails and iconic spots. It’s that time of year again...
Martino Cattaneo's "Madness" Part The Swiss Scrambler sees new potential on slanted spots across Europe, transferring from bowls to trees and hitting two rails with one slide. Now you know why we got him in the van.
Element Skateboards' "Nature Calls" Video Jaakko, Madars and more escape the cities to shred the scenic fields, hills and frozen lakes in this visually-stunning journey. Answer the call.
Brandon Semenuk Drops his First Raw 100 Rally Edition