Brian J. D'Souza 
Back in 1980, when Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer with a goal-oriented solo long-distance run across Canada, the terminally ill young man was fuelled by passion, and anger. The latter stemmed from the lack of funding and attention dedicated towards research. Over three … Read More
Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company best known for creating the BlackBerry smartphone, was recently placed on the endangered companies list by influential business writer Henry Blodget of Business Insider. Blodget’s controversial May 19 web headline pronounced that “RIM’s toast,” while his article’s otherwise identical print version at Canadian … Read More
This Saturday brings the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to Toronto for the first time in the competition’s history. Upping the ante is the organization’s statement that the audience attending UFC 129, held in the capacity-55,000 Rogers Centre, will be “the largest crowd in UFC history.” Despite arriving late to the … Read More
Going against the grain (but not the watermark) as of April 1, Denmark has introduced a bleeding-edge tech component to its postal service. Users can now text the post office in order to purchase a digital stamp. The “stamp” itself is a code, texted back post-payment, that the user hand-writes … Read More
