Sunday funday morning breakfast news articles to read.
LVMH completes the acquisition of Tiffany & Co. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, the world’s leading luxury products group, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF), the global luxury jeweler. As it closed its $15.8 billion acquisition, Tiffany will be dropped from the S&P 500 Index now that the deal has been approved. (Globenewswire)
The dark money that built Victoria's Craigdarroch Castle The Dunsmuir fortune was built on deadly mine conditions, strike-breaking, racist fear mongering, and stolen land (Capital Daily)
These Are the Rioters Who Stormed the Nation’s Capitol The mob that rampaged the halls of Congress included infamous white supremacists and conspiracy theorists. (New York Times)
Nobody Lived a Fuller Baseball Life than Tommy Lasorda The Dodgers' Hall of Fame manager spent seven decades associated with the club. He died on Thursday at age 93 (Sports Illustrated).
Hand in Glove - The false promise of plastics The first one I saw was on the path outside my house: a single white plastic glove, the fingers curled inward like a sleeping animal. This was in the early days of lock-down, when the world seemed to have shifted in ways for which we weren’t yet able to account. In the weeks that followed, as governments struggled to provide enough personal protective equipment (PPE) and hospital staff improvised with skiing goggles and masks made from sanitary towels, more white or blue gloves began to appear on nearby streets and footpaths. (Orion)
The Market Value of My Father When the novelist Joshua Ferris’s family blew up, his mother revealed a truth: his father was worthless, a con man. A bad investment in their lives. But years later, a mysterious book about Wall Street showed up—a gift from his father—that began to change the story. (Wealthsimple)
Scotiabank project follows money trails to detect signs of child sexual exploitation A joint project led by the Bank of Nova Scotia and backed by Canada’s financial intelligence agency has created a new model to detect warning signs of child sexual exploitation by following trails of money. (Globe and Mail)
Grizzlies at the Table When the wild salmon runs around Wuikinuxv, BC, were depleted, the local grizzly bears grew hungry — and dangerous. Now, as the salmon are returning, the community is asking a challenging new question: can we include the bears in the management of the fishery? (Beside)
A Nation’s Economy Divided: Breadlines vs. Bread Makers An economy is its people. Alongside the 19 million infected and more than 330,000 killed in the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., there are millions more whose lives have been upended by the economic collapse that has come with it.(Businessweek)