Last week the news was dominated by the saga of Jian Ghomeshi and the CBC with more and more allegations coming out against the former radio host. Readers couldn’t seem to get enough. The Globe and Mail wrote a play-by-play of what happened (without the gruesome details).
Business scandals can never be quite as mesmerizing. But a trial in Florida is coming close, at least for business geeks like me. The trial describes the tactics used by UBS to hide clients’ money from the IRS and includes computers equipped with two hard drives, money wrapped in newspaper and secret meetings.
In other news Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was proud to be gay, a revelation that probably wasn’t that surprising. A Russian lawmaker, in also not a surprise response, said Cook shouldn’t be allowed in the country because he might bring in Ebola. Okay that’s probably a bit of a stretch.
Up there with the Ebola statement was the reassuring words of HSBC board member Laura Cha who suggested Hong Kong should be able to wait for democracy. After all, it took 107 years for slaves in the U.S. to get voting rights after they were freed (a number she apparently got wrong).
An online petition has ensued.
And all this we know because we have access to the Internet. Which may be why Hungarians rioted when the government tried to impose a tax on the Internet. The riots worked. The tax is out (paywall).
