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BlackBerry is suing Ryan Seacrest
Having broken up with one celebrity, BlackBerry is now suing another. The Canadian Press reports that the Waterloo-based...
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The Thing: a thermostat that’s just plain cool
The new Nest thermostat is brilliant, in a HAL from 2001 kind of way. Not only does it adhere to commands sent from your smart...
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BlackBerry 10 makes some high-profile RIM doomsayers eat their words
Research in Motion’ s recent hot streak continues with a pair of endorsements from unlikely sources. This morning, Reuters...
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The Find: eight functional iPhone 5 cases that are also stylish, playful and cool
Anyone who has felt the stomach-lurching anguish of dropping an iPhone and shattering the screen can appreciate the value of a...
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Are BlackBerrys embarrassing? The debate continues
The New York Times started an online furor earlier this week with an article on the social shame of carrying a BlackBerry in a...
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BlackBerrys are disappearing from U.S. retail shelves
Research in Motion is struggling according to nearly every conventional measure of business success: its stock price has...
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The Thing: the Olloclip, a super-cool iPhone attachment
Why buy a camera? It’s just another gadget that only does one thing—a fatal flaw in the age of multi-tasking, especially when...
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Research in Motion takes a beating in Australia
Research in Motion’ s embarrassing flash mob outside a Sydney Apple store was a sign of worse things to come for its Australian...
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QUOTED: a Toronto tech watcher, on the RIM catastrophe that would flummox even Steve Jobs
—Kerry Morrison, of Toronto software developer Endloop Mobile, on the general pessimism about Research in Motion’ s...
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Reaction Roundup: Is BlackBerry 10 all that it was supposed to be?
At the annual BlackBerry World trade show in Orlando yesterday, Research in Motion top dog Thorsten Heins unveiled prototypes of...
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RIM embraces its square-ness and provides software for other, cooler smartphones
After trying too hard to seem cool (the Bold Team superheroes appealed to absolutely no one, and an attempt to get in on the...
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The Thing: the classic British Aga cooker boldly goes digital
Good food comes at a price. For dedicated kitchen design geeks, that price is $18,000, which is what it costs to own Aga’s...
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Check out version two of the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
Last Thursday, Toronto Life released its new Best Restaurants app, which brings our reviews of Toronto’s top 400+ restaurants to...
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Editor’s Letter (April 2012): The App of My Eye
The last couple of years have been fantastic for Toronto diners. The city has experienced an explosion of hole-in-the-wall...
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Another U.S. agency dumps RIM (despite its fancy PlayBook-integrated Porsche)
Once again, Research in Motion is having a rough week. First, Politico reported that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
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Introducing: the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
The Dish is very pleased to announce the launch of Toronto Life’ s Best Restaurants app for the iPhone and iPad. Easy to use and...
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BlackBerry is still Canada’s number-one smart phone—but it’s rapidly losing its share of the market
Canadians may see Apple as more “leading edge,” but Research In Motion remains the leader in Canada’s smartphone...
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Reaction Roundup: the lowdown on RIM’s executive shuffle
We don’t expect analysts to go easy on Research In Motion just because co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie finally stepped...
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How bullying became the crisis of a generation
Kids are committing suicide, parents are in a panic, and schools that neglect to protect students are lawsuit targets Mitchell...
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A member of the notorious new breed of young poker pros who are winning—and losing—millions
Matt Marafioti is a mouthy, high-rolling university dropout who plays 1,000 hands of online poker a night This past September’s...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 10 amazing tokens of affection for our favourite nerds
There was a time where an adult would be embarrassed to ask for a limited-edition Green Lantern statuette in its original box, but...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 perfect presents for the jet-setting cosmopolitan
We can’t all be glamorous jet-setters and playboys, skipping across the globe to test the slopes of Whistler, Kitzbühel and Les...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 festive finds from $31 to $99
It’s the jolliest time of the year for some, and for many, mulled wine, cider or anything, really, are the social lubricants...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling