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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...
City News
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...
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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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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment