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BlackBerry shifting emphasis from smartphones to services

TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry no longer owns the fast-paced, innovative smartphone world but the company, whose email-on-your-hip devices once revolutionized the industry, now aims to run it. Full story

Shakespeare's sonnets come to life in new app

TORONTO (Reuters) - A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks. Full story

Alleged Crack Smoking Toronto Mayor Should Be More Like Rahm, Expert Says

There’s only one American politician who has been seen in public with Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor who was allegedly seen smoking crack on a video recorded by Somali drug dealers. That politician, of course, is our own mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Last September, Ford visited Chicago to renew the Sister C Full story

click 3: Semper dry?

   Chris Hayes shares the three awesomest things on the internet today 1) Gawker reports that the mayor of Toronto is seen on video smoking crack cocaine 2) Right-wing trolls mobilize after President Obama calls in two marines with umbrellas 3) A 9 year old girl throws out the first pitch at a baseball

Toronto mayor denies smoking crack cocaine

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Friday denied allegations that he smoked crack cocaine. Full story

Toronto mayor denies smoking crack in video

A video purportedly of Toronto's mayor smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada.            Full story

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  New twists in terror plot thwarted in Canada

Toronto Globe Reporter, Colin Freeze, talks with MSNBC’s Alex Witt about the terror plot thwarted in Canada earlier this week. Freeze discusses the suspects and what could have motivated them to carry out the attacks. Freeze also comments on the role of radical Islam and the scope of its threat in C

  'If Candidate X wins, I'm moving to Canada'

CBC News' cheif correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, joins from Toronto to talk the old American election season saying: "If Candidate X wins, I'm moving to Canada."

  Duck family crosses 4-lane highway  in video

A few feathered friends weathered some scary moments as eight baby ducklings followed their mother across a busy highway in Toronto in a viral video.

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A construction crane flipped in northwest Toronto, bringing down power lines and temporarily trapping a bus of passengers. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

  Colo. victim remembered for ‘infectious attitude’

Jessica Ghawi was an aspiring sportscaster who friends are remembering for her love of laughing, especially at herself. She was killed in the Aurora, Colo. tragedy after blogging about her near-miss at another shooting in Canada just weeks ago.

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Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, makes a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, makes a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, makes a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto, May 22, 2013. The mayor of Canada's largest city, facing allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, and made racial and ho

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, arrives to make a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, arrives to make a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, arrives to make a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto, May 22, 2013. The mayor of Canada's largest city, facing allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, and made rac

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, leaves after making a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, leaves after making a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto

Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, leaves after making a statement about the recent allegations in the media of Mayor Rob Ford's illegal drug use in Toronto, May 22, 2013. The mayor of Canada's largest city, facing allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, and made