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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...
View ArticleEx-Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed made a lot more than you in 2013
$26,769,973 —The amount of money Nadir Mohamed, who retired from his position at the helm of Rogers last December, made in 2013, according to a Globe analysis of the earnings of Canada’s 100 top-paid...
View ArticleThe Canadian job market is still pretty sluggish
25,800 —The number of jobs created by the Canadian economy in May, according to Statistics Canada data reported in the Globe and Mail. But there’s bad news: the gain was attributable entirely to...
View ArticleToronto’s trees may have some actual monetary value
$7,000,000,000 —The estimated value of Toronto’s tree canopy, according to a new report by TD Economics. Researchers arrived at that figure by calculating what it would cost to replace each of the...
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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...
View ArticleToronto’s private garbage collection has a mediocre few months
4,954 —Total number of curbside collection complaints lodged between January and March against Green for Life, the private contractor that handles garbage pickup in the western half of the city,...
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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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BlackBerry is trying to prevent Ryan Seacrest from selling an iPhone accessory
(Image: Courtesy of Typo Products) BlackBerry has spent much of the past year trying desperately to make its phones seem more like iPhones, so one can only imagine how troubling it must be to...
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Toronto Life magazine launches a new iPad app
Toronto Life’s Best Doctors issue hits newsstands today, but iPad owners won’t need to walk to Gateway to get their copy—our brand new iPad edition is rolling out simultaneously. Toronto Life’s free...
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Toronto to get lots more rich people (but not as many as London)
(Image: elPadawan) Global real-estate consultancy Knight Frank doesn’t use the phrase “rich people” in its annual report on worldwide wealth distribution; it prefers the politically correct term...
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Wind Mobile is now worthless (on paper, at any rate)
(Image: dalmond) Wind Mobile, the upstart telco that tried to lure wireless customers with low prices and easy subscription terms, is now worth precisely nothing—at least, according to the latest...
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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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