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The latest in COVID-19 developments: Canada reports first AstraZeneca-linked blood clot case, U.S. calls for pause on J&J vaccine and more
A Quebec woman is the first in Canada to develop a blood clot after being vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The province said the patient, whose age was not revealed, is recovering at home, and had received the vaccine produced at the Serum Institute of India, known as Covishield.
W Galen Weston, retail tycoon behind Selfridges, dies aged 80 yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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W.G. Galen Weston, the Canadian billionaire who built his family’s bakery and grocery business into a global retail empire, died on Monday after a long illness. He was 80.
His contemporaries describe Weston as one of the most formidable and visionary leaders in Canadian business, a man of style and substance who turned Loblaw supermarkets into the biggest player in the country’s food chain.
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He was a philanthropist, a handsome and elegant dresser, a solid polo player into his middle age, a friend to the British Royal Family and reportedly the subject of a thwarted kidnapping plot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the 1980s. But those who knew him said he was a man most interested in other people, who preferred to spend his leisure time wandering the well-stocked aisles of Loblaws
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Galen Weston, leader of his family’s Anglo-Canadian business empire and owner of Selfridges – obituary
He had a simple set of precepts: owning property rather than leasing, keeping debt low, a strong family work ethic and loyal key executives
14 April 2021 • 2:23pm
Galen Weston: it was said that the British Westons came to regard sociable, polo-playing Galen as their benign ‘playboy uncle’
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Galen Weston, who has died aged 80, was the head of the billionaire Anglo-Canadian dynasty whose fortune had its origins in mass-produced sliced bread. Though best known as the steward of the family’s Canadian and Irish interests, he was also the owner of Selfridges, a friend of the British Royal family – and the target, in 1983, of a botched IRA kidnap attempt.