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Research in Motion
City News
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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City News
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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City News
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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City News
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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Best New Restaurants
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
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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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Food & Drink
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
City News
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