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Research in Motion
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Reaction roundup: analysts on RIM and Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis’s $1 salaries
Despite its frequent and public thrashings, Research in Motion still had to stand before investors to dish on its dismal third...
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Drunk, unruly RIM executives were tied up on an Air Canada flight—and then chewed through their restraints
The basic story reported two weeks ago was amusing enough—two Research in Motion executives get in a drunken row on a plane to...
City News
Quoted: an eyewitness tells the tale of two RIM executives’ drunken rampage
That was Bernie Lee, a Toronto-based basketball agent who witnessed two wasted Research in Motion executives going berserk on an...
City News
A New Mexico company schools RIM in a modern-day tale of David and (significantly weakened) Goliath
Maintaining your company’s brand and trademarks is a vital part of running a business, especially when that business has...
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City News
Quoted: a tech analyst on Rodney Dangerfield, RIM and how the two are pretty much the same thing
That’s Kaan Yigit of Toronto-based Solutions Research Group, on the astonishing string of bad news about Research in...
City News
Head of Indonesia RIM a suspect in BlackBerry brawl
Anyone afraid of more ugly news after Research in Motion’ s no good, very bad week probably should click over here —because...
City News
What happens when two RIM executives get so drunk on an Air Canada flight that it has to be diverted?
Those two RIM executives get fired. Read the entire story [Toronto Star] »
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City News
Research in Motion and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
It was an especially bad week in an especially bad year for Research in Motion. The battered company announced this morning that...
City News
RIM slashes PlayBook price by $300 for consumers, offers even better deals for its employees
Christmas came early for BlackBerry fans. Research in Motion is in the midst of a holiday fire sale, cutting PlayBook prices by...
City News
New BlackBerry launch sparks RIM-loving riot (for a change)
Apple may own the rabid gadget consumer market in North America, but apparently RIM has it locked down elsewhere in the world. The...
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City News
Research in Motion is broke(n), say brokerages
Reporters aren’t the only ones forecasting doom and gloom for Research in Motion— grave prophesies from several financial...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
City News
BlackBerry Playbook update delayed for the fourth time, and won’t include BBM
In yet another act of self-flagellation, Research in Motion has delayed the Playbook’s new operating system until February and...
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RIM to salvage reputation, apparently, by “intercepting” the future
Research in Motion’s Jim Balsillie appears to be brimming with confidence that investors will be blown away by a series of...
City News
Three-day service outage accelerates RIM death spiral, company responds by offering free download of Bubble Bash 2
Research in Motion is rolling out a suite of free apps to pacify users incensed by last week’s global service outage. The full...
City News
Research in Motion grinds to a halt as Blackberry blackout goes global
Millions of people are feeling CrackBerry withdrawal symptoms as a blackout inhibiting all email, texting and browsing enters its...
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RIM spends $100 million—possibly (hopefully) to be more like Apple
Research in Motion announced Friday that it has agreed to buy Irish developer NewBay for a reported $100 million. The 200-employee...
City News
Google buys Motorola’s cellphone branch, which, apparently, is good news for RIM
The big news from Wall Street this morning is that Google found some $12 billion in its sofa cushions and decided to splurge on a...
City News
Does RIM just not get the gadget market?
Research in Motion took another beating on the markets this morning, plunging 21 per cent after another disappointing earnings...
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Apple and Microsoft make life difficult for Canadian companies: RIM, Bell, Rogers to see major competition
It’s a big week for the tech world, as the combination of Apple’s WWDC and the wider-reaching E3 conference start the summer...
City News
Watch RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis shut down his interview with the BBC
This is probably not the best way to get publicity right before Research in Motion’s big tablet launch . RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis...
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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
Deep Dives
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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