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The rise and fall of smartphones: a brief history of key moments
From the first brick-sized IBM model in 1994 to the explosive 2024 bestseller that blamed Big Tech for rewiring kids’ brains
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Rob Ford and Karen Stintz argue over whether he phoned her
Just when we thought city hall couldn’t get any more childish, Rob Ford and Karen Stintz decide to stand in the same room and...
City News
More evidence of a new era at the TTC: cellphone service on subway platforms is in; maroon jackets are out
As soon as Andy Byford took the helm of the TTC in March, the changes began. He opted for a beefed up title—“CEO” rather...
City News
Q&A: Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera, the man that’s battling big telecom
He’s been trading punches with the three big telecom companies for years. He’s just won a huge battle. Here’s what’s in it...
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Jesse Brown: Shouldn’t we be more concerned about our privacy?
Every trip to the mall, every phone call, every email can be stored and potentially used against us in the future What’s your...
City News
Bell Mobility faces a class-action lawsuit over its pre-paid wireless services
Bad news for Bell Mobility and parent company BCE : they have been served with a $100-million class-action lawsuit over wireless...
City News
The weirdest mayoralty ever—the inside story of Rob Ford’s city hall
On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains of the Hollies hit “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” offered the first clue. Then...
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Andy Byford writes an icy memo to TTC employees
The TTC has had a few customer service embarrassments over the last few years (workers texting on the road, leaving their routes...
City News
A new BlackBerry exhibit showcases primitive RIM products (no, not the PlayBook)
With RIM-bashing at a high (naturally, we’ve done our share), sometimes we need a reminder that Research In Motion still has...
City News
Jesse Brown: Why smart phones in the classroom equals smarter kids
Fears of cyber-cheating and sexting in school are so last year When Dalton McGuinty suggested in September 2010 that cellphones...
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Reaction roundup: What the city’s sports (and business) writers are saying about the MLSE deal
Sure, the fact that Bell Canada and Rogers have teamed up to purchase Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment is old news now, but...
City News
Jesse Brown: how big wireless companies, the banks, and even the actors’ union are keeping our mobile bills the highest in the world
Getting gouged by cellphone providers is such a routine part of life in Canada that it barely seems worth complaining about. Yet...
City News
Rob Ford distracts masses from real issues by making more bad life choices
Yesterday, news broke that police chief Bill Blair could be risking his career—oh, never mind. Rob Ford ’ s been caught using...
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My Digital Sabbath: how one writer learned to stop checking Facebook and love life offline
I can’t say specifically which fabulous new technology made me decide I needed a break from all fabulous new technologies. For...
City News
Cell service on the subway: good news may be coming in the fall
More than a year has passed since the TTC announced it was going to try to bring cellphone service to the subway. Back...
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...
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CONFIRMED: Toronto gets two new area codes—416 and 647, meet 437 and 387
We mentioned a couple days ago that the CRTC was considering—“within weeks”—announcing a new area code for Toronto, a...
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Ontario’s e-waste recycling program is a “Soviet Union-esque” disaster
Okay, we’re not going to go quite as far as the critic who equated the provincially mandated Ontario Electronic Stewardship to...
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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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Canadian CEO brings Nokia what it needs: balls
Canadians may not have a reputation for being brash, assertive leaders, but every once in a while we still manage to surprise:...
City News
India gets RIM to cry uncle, Google and Skype up next
The big news in the tech world today is that Waterloo-based Research in Motion seems to have struck a deal to keep Blackberrys...
City News
New service allows riders to text the TTC to learn how late streetcars will be
The service's stickers went up in May, but those texting for TTC schedules via the new streetcar notification system have been...
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The Rogers affair: woman sues telecommunications company after she’s caught cheating on her husband
Consolidating phone bills with Rogers can save money, but, apparently, it can also un-save a marriage. Just ask Gabrielle Nagy , a...
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Coke-powered cellphones, nut-free airplanes, parsley’s great comeback, Beyoncé to live long
• As any student knows, Coke can provide enough energy to power one through an all-nighter. Nokia has figured this out, as...
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’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
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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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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