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Canadian gambling CEO Rod Baker resigns after being accused of flying into indigenous community to get COVID-19 vaccine
Canadian gambling CEO Rod Baker has resigned after he and his wife were charged with travelling to a remote community in the country’s north and misleading authorities in order to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
Key points:
- Mr Baker and his wife allegedly travelled from Vancouver to the Yukon territory and posed as local workers
- The pair were charged with having failed to behave in a manner “consistent with [their] declaration”
- Great Canadian Gaming Corp is being bought by Apollo Global Management Inc
Great Canadian Gaming Corp, an Ontario-based company that runs casinos and hotels, said in a statement that it received the chief executive officer’s resignation on Sunday but offered no details, stating that it did not comment on personnel…
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