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From now on, we buy our smut from Rupert Murdoch: Torstar is selling Harlequin
(Image: Murdoch: David Shankbone) Harlequin—international romance-novel publisher, ripper of a million bodices—is based in Toronto and owned by Torstar, the Toronto Star‘s parent company. Except now,...
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PHOTO: BlackBerry tries to get in on the Raptors’ goodwill
This is what the National Post’s website looked like as of Monday afternoon. BlackBerry is an official team sponsor, so we suppose a little brand synergy is to be expected, but there’s something about...
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BlackBerry is still more popular than Apple—at least, in Toronto
(Image: iPhone: Matthew Pearce; BlackBerry: Martin Hajek) Could BlackBerry’s appeals to national pride actually be working? According to a new report from iQmetrix, a supplier of retail-management...
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CBC plans to cut 1,500 jobs, push digital services rather than TV and radio
The CBC’s bad decade continues this morning, with news that the broadcaster’s grand solution to its existential funding crisis, is, essentially, to stop broadcasting so much. CBC News reports that its...
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The Grid’s gone
Well, we gave it our best shot. After 162 issues, this Thursday’s issue of @TheGridTO will be our last. We are shutting down immediately. — TheGridTO (@TheGridTO) July 2, 2014 The Grid announced on...
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Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #17. Because the Library is a High-Tech...
(Image: Daniel Neuhaus) Everyone from Barack Obama to Dita Von Teese claims that 3-D printers will upend the way we manufacture just about everything. The Toronto Public Library apparently agrees. This...
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Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #19. Because Katie Taylor Carries the Bank...
(Image: Markian Lozowchuk) In the realm of Canadian corporate boards, there are directorships and there are Directorships. While it’s undeniably gratifying to be called to join the board of a big...
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Everyone hates the CBC’s new strategic plan
The future had never looked bleaker for the CBC than it did last month, after CEO Hubert Lacroix announced that he would be cutting as many 1,500 jobs over the next six years as part of a strategic...
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First they came for the Sam the Record Man sign, and we said nothing
(Well, actually we did say a few things.) Now, the CBC reports that another piece of iconic (or, at any rate, very old) neon advertising has disappeared: the Inglis billboard next to the Gardiner...
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Once again, the Economist declares Toronto “livable”
Although calling a city “livable” is sort of like calling a plate of food “edible,” everyone is really excited that the Economist’s Intelligence Unit has once again named Toronto one of the world’s...
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Made-in-Canada Netflix may be the only thing worse than Canadian Netflix
In a move already being hailed by media commentators as “intended to bolster…business,” cable giants Rogers and Shaw have jointly announced yet another subscription movie platform that isn’t as good as...
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The city has been forced to shut down its clever anti-littering ad campaign
(Image: city of Toronto)Everyone has probably noticed these city-produced ads on transit shelters and buses. The mash-ups of different types of familiar product packaging, created by the ad agency...
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“Ford Square” will be the latest in Toronto’s long line of unfortunate name...
The soon-to-be-former Maple Leaf Square. (Image: Yzukerman/Flickr) The Post reports that Maple Leaf Square, the space outside the Air Canada Centre where sports fans gather to watch games on a giant...
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The Toronto Star’s paywall is probably coming down soon
The Toronto Star was late to the paywall party. The Globe, the Sun and the Post had all started hitting up online readers for subscription money when the city’s highest-circulation daily finally made...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because there’s a Toronto app for everything
In the past year, local developers have created dozens of new smartphone apps that help make life in the city just a little bit easier. Here, our favourite techy time savers. Maegan What it is: A...
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