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by redis_mlc 2243 days ago
> All my profit comes from winning settlements from pharma companies".

I followed the Canadian generics market in the press in the 80s and 90s. It was awesome, like the Wild West days - "what are they up to this week?"

Sherman and Shulman (Quincy TV show basd on him?) were like mini-Trumps.

That plus the Toronto calculus textbook author who needed a commercial architect ("no straight lines, please") to build his $24 million mansion, Integral House, with its own world-class concert hall. It was Sarek's house in Star Trek: Discovery.

Canadians might be polite, but have just as much business drama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Shulman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_House

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Not to mention the unsolved murder of Barry Sherman and his wife!
Yeah, I read a brief news report on that.

Kind of baffled. I'm familiar with Toronto, and I don't have any likely explanations for that kind of thing there unless it was a suicide pact without a note (they were in their mid-70s), or a badly failed kidnapping attempt.

Sherman was the #12 richest Canadian, so pretty high on the totem pole. I used to see the former #1 billionaire owner of Hudson's Bay (founded 1670!), Ken Thomson, around the main store. He displayed part of his Group of Seven collection publicly on one floor (that group was funded by the Massey-Harris fortune.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thomson,_2nd_Baron_Tho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven_(artists)