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Research in Motion
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Toronto’s 10 biggest financial moments of the past 50 years
A ranking of the businesses, barons and bankruptcies that mattered most
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Five things we learned from
Bloomberg Businessweek
‘s history of BlackBerry—including why it turned down Justin Bieber
These days, the news out of Waterloo is almost uniformly bad. BlackBerry 's new line of smartphones bombed quickly after being...
City News
The best and worst moments from the Blackberry 10 launch, starting with RIM’s big name change
• Most long-overdue change: Early in his presentation, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the company has officially changed...
City News
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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Nokia versus RIM: a patent dispute could result in a BlackBerry sales ban
Research in Motion is on a roll this month, with a BlackBerry 10 launch date announcement and share price upgrades by several...
City News
RIM’s stock surges with a vote of confidence from CIBC
CIBC has joined the ranks of companies in the Canadian investment community forecasting a less gloomy future for beleaguered...
City News
RIM sets a launch date for BlackBerry 10
Research in Motion has, at very long last, announced it will launch BlackBerry 10 on January 30, an entire year later than the...
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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...
City News
A BlackBerry outage strikes during iPhone launch week—for the second year in a row
Earlier today, Research in Motion’ s U.K. branch acknowledged that users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were having...
City News
The three biggest corporate cash hoarders in Toronto (and what we imagine they’re doing with the dough)
Last month, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney accused corporate Canada of hoarding hundreds of billions of dollars of “dead...
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“BBM” is now a real word, according to the Collins English Dictionary
Word nerds, take note: ”BBM,” the abbreviation, noun and verb encompassing every facet of BlackBerry Messenger, is officially...
City News
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...
City News
Why Apple’s victory over Samsung is a potential boon for RIM
With Apple’ s billion-dollar legal victory over Samsung dominating tech news this week, we wondered how the outcome of the...
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RIM preps for BlackBerry 10’s launch by buddying up to app developers and wireless carriers
Research in Motion’ s survival depends almost entirely on whether consumers will buy the BlackBerry 10 smartphones now set to...
City News
IBM may be interested in buying a large piece of RIM
Even though Samsung doesn’t seem interested in partnering up with Research in Motion, that doesn’t mean RIM is a total...
City News
Rumours circulate (yet again) that Samsung could buy RIM
A rumour runs through the tech world every few months that handset maker Samsung is thinking of licensing Research in Motion...
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RIM finally releases a movie app for the PlayBook
Research in Motion launched the Canadian version of its PlayBook video store app yesterday, which means the growing contingent of...
City News
The New York Times drops its BlackBerry app
Anyone who owns a BlackBerry (and, despite Research in Motion’ s recent troubles, there are still many who do) can no longer use...
City News
One of Canada’s savviest investors is buying tons of RIM shares
Though many now doubt Research in Motion can survive, billionaire Prem Watsa’ s Toronto-based insurance and investment firm...
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BlackBerry could soon look deep into users’ hearts using technological wizardry
Research in Motion has a patent pending for a feature that would figure out how a user is feeling when they’re texting, and...
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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...
City News
RIM gives away money and booze to get people to try the PlayBook
Research in Motion is throwing a two-week-long “BlackBerry PlayBook Experience” in New York City’s Chelsea Market to help...
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Canadian Business buries RIM before it’s even dead
Canadian Business seems pretty convinced that Research in Motion is in a dire state—and it’s certainly not the only...
City News
RIM’s grim financial problems may save it from its grim legal problems
After Research in Motion announced BlackBerry 10 would be delayed until 2013, some analysts cried death spiral, and CEO Thorsten...
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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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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
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