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Will BlackBerry get its groove back?

Remember when owning a BlackBerry was cool? a few years ago, Research In Motion Ltd. smartphones were status symbols with unsurpassed cachet. In the fall of 2009, even as RIM struggled to weather the global economic downturn, it appeared as though the company was on the verge of a breakthrough with the BlackBerry brand. At […]

A new Leaf: Gulf oil spill was impetus for driver to embrace electric car

The French use the slang term “branché” to describe something as trendy, or of-the-moment; more traditionally, it explains that a device is plugged in. Ottawa’s Ricardo Borba came home Friday with a new car that fits both definitions: he’s the first commuting consumer in Canada to take delivery of Nissan’s all-electric Leaf. With neither a […]

Topp camp takes shot at Mulcair

Backed by new endorsements from a veteran and a rookie member of the federal NDP caucus, party leadership hopeful Brian Topp launched a strike Friday against a potential rival’s weaknesses in English Canada, while arguing that his own campaign was not about personal attacks. Topp brought out New Brunswick MP Yvon Godin and Montreal MP […]

Winners, losers and opportunities lost in the CRTC vertical-integration ruling

A lot was at stake in the CRTC’s hearings on vertical integration in the telecom-media-Internet industries held in June. The big four vertically integrated media companies in Canada — Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Quebecor Media (QMI) — said there was no problem, and proposed that, at most, the CRTC should accept some amalgamation of their […]

Drug dealing Vancouver cop sentenced to three years in prison

The “shocking” actions of a former Vancouver police officer who sold marijuana while on duty deserve severe punishment, said a judge who handed down a three-year prison sentence Thursday. Peter Andrew Hodson, 32, was caught last year selling drugs during an elaborate undercover police operation. “Your remarkable fall from grace is a burden that will […]