Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• It's important to bring the spirit of emergencies to the long term (McKinsey)
• The ugly story of how Corporate America convinced us to spend so much money on boxed water (Vox)
• Walmart-owned Flipkart curbs M&A and hiring as losses mount in India (FT)
• Jamie Oliver vs inflation (The Atlantic)
• Canada's moonshot: The green farming revolution is here, but we must help it grow (FP)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Restaurant Brands profit, sales gain as Tim Hortons looks to expand lunch, dinner offerings (Globe and Mail)
• Very important and hard to teach (Collaborative Fund)
• Sobeys, Safeway grappling with IT issues as Maple Leaf Foods announces cybersecurity incident (CBC)
• Walgreens unit close to roughly $9 billion deal with Summit Health (WSJ)
• Macy's plans to invest millions to fund minority-owned businesses (NYT)

CBC

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Washington sues to stop Albertsons $4 billion dividend plan (Bloomberg)
• The DOJ should now take on Amazon (The Atlantic)
• Why Amazon Music VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime (The Verge)
• Ocado shares soar as it signs a deal with a South Korean retailer (The Guardian)
• Good luck returning your unwanted cothes and electronics (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Lowe's selling Canadian retail operations, including Rona, to Sycamore Partners (Globe and Mail)
• CVS, Walmart, Walgreens reach $13 billion opioid settlement (Bloomberg)
• Freeland's economic update warns of 2023 recession, announces tax on corporate share buybacks (Globe and Mail)
• Was Jack Welch the greatest CEO of his day - or the worst (The New Yorker)
• From the archives (2008): Ontario's store wars marching west (Globe and Mail)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• A Carbone on every continent: Major food group is going global (NYT)
• Companies under growing pressure to recoup executive pay (WSJ)
• The role of the chief operating officer (McKinsey)
• Ottawa reveals plan to welcome 500,000 new immigrants per year by 2025 (CBC)
• Can J. Crew be cool again (NYT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Cumulative vs cyclical knowledge (Collaborative Fund)
• The home-improvement boom isn't over yet (WSJ)
• The push to scale plant-based plastics (Wired)
• Food prices soar, and so do companies profits (NYT)
• J&J agrees to buy medical device maker Abiomed for $16.6 billion (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: Another year of strategy (Medium)
• Of course instant groceries don't work (The Atlantic)
• Target will sell products from Marks & Spencer this holiday season (Food & Wine)
• The takeover law that has Bay Street rattled (Globe and Mail)
• What Moneyball for everything has done to American culture (The Atlantic)