A pandemic toy story: Chess sets, Paw Patrol and parents who can't stop spending

Ronnen Harary, co-founder of Spin Master Ltd., the Toronto-based children’s toy-making entertainment juggernaut famous the world over for its Paw Patrol franchise, blocks off 20 minutes each morning, and another 20 minutes at day’s end, to meditate. The soft-spoken, thoughtful, 49-year-old self-made billionaire adopted the mind-centring practice some years back after taking a course in Toronto and spending time at the...