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Globe and Mail
12 minutes ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Download the June 2025 edition of Report on Business magazine
Cover: Blackberry's new media-shy chief executive dishes on the former smartphone giant's plans to conquer another market – inside your car. Also: We rank Canada's Best Managed Companies of 2025, and learn lessons every leader should live by. Plus: Barbecue maker Napoleon plays up its made-in-Canada bona fides, but building more products at home is easier said than done. Download the PDF May: Diversity, equity and inclusion was supposed to make organizations fairer and more meritocratic, and the world a better place. So why has the blowback against DEI been so fast and so harsh? Also: At Nortel Networks' peak 25 years ago, it was worth more than 35% of the value of the TSX 300. So how did Canada's biggest boom company ever go so bust? Former insiders provide an oral history. Plus: We present our annual list of non-CEO All-Stars who help their companies win big. Download the PDF April, 2025: GardaWorld is a key player in the ever-increasing $250-billion domain of global security. We travelled to West Virginia to find out what clients can expect from their top-of-the-line treatment, guns and all. Also: Sports betting has been immensely profitable since Ontario legalized it, but risks remain. Plus: Vancouver-based Teck Resources branches out with a copper mine high in the Andes, but a lot could still go wrong. March, 2025: We talk to GFL Environmental's Patrick Dovigi about how he built a waste management giant, accrued billions in debt, had his house shot at, pulled off a mega sale, and still managed to keep investors onside. Also: we unveil our annual Changemakers list – 20 emerging leaders reinventing how Canada does business. Plus: Robert Allan Inc.'s all-electric tugboats really are the little boats that can change everything. Download the PDF December, 2024: In this edition, we profile our 2024 CEOs of the Year – five multifaceted leaders from diverse industries who know how to elevate a business. Also: Our economics team looks at the best- and worst-case scenarios for 2025, with input from bank CEOs and other heavy hitters on what may lie ahead. Plus: we speak with SickKids Foundation CEO Jennifer Bernard on how she plans to raise $1.7-billion (with a little help from Ryan Reynolds). Download the PDF November, 2024: In this issue, we question the tobacco industry's plan to phase out cigarettes and get a whole new generation hooked on nicotine in different ways. Also: we look at the anti-Succession CEO handover at Linamar. Plus: for the fourth year in a row, we present a list of Canada's Best Law Firms. Download the PDF October, 2024: In this edition, we talk to Suncor CEO Rich Kruger about his all-in-on-oil strategy. Also: we follow engineering firm Stantec's wild discoveries in its race to get ahead of climate change. Plus: we go in-depth on Canada's Top Growing Companies. Download the PDF June, 2024: In this edition, we trace Bombardier's fall and its recent upward run (albeit as a far smaller organization, with just one line of business). Also: with Ottawa pushing Canada's pension funds to invest more in the domestic economy, we profile Caisse CEO Charles Emond. Plus: we go in-depth on Canada's Best Managed Companies. Download the PDF May, 2024: In this issue we talk to Pet Valu CEO Richard Maltsbarger about how he is deftly expanding his chain while easing it upscale at the same time. Also: we give out our annual Best Executive awards, celebrating the non-CEO all-stars who help companies win big. Plus: we follow Montreal company RodeoFX's rise to the top of the visual-effects business. Download the PDF April, 2024: In this issue we meet the Mi'kmaq Chief charting a new course for Canada's largest seafood company. Also: we examine why the percentage of Canadian companies with women CEOs has declined. Plus: we sit down with Jamie Salter of Authentic Brands to discuss how he's recharged dozens of brands and revitalized the careers of Shaq, David Beckham and more. Download the PDF
The Guardian
22 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Experience: I've made the longest chain of chewing-gum wrappers in the world
I don't know what to put it down to, but I've always been a collector, a completist, a statistician – and maybe a little competitive. As a schoolboy in Canada, I was fascinated by the Guinness Book of Records and Ripley's Believe It Or Not!. I would memorise the records and amaze my friends by quoting them. Little did I know then that in 1994 I would break a world record and feature in the book I adored as a young boy, all thanks to my childhood hobby – making paper chains out of chewing-gum wrappers. I learned how to do it in 1965, aged 14, after seeing the older kids in the playground folding their gum wrappers into neat, long chains. I took to it pretty quickly, and entered a competition to see who could make the longest in the class. I won that, and then I made the longest one in the school. Suddenly, all the kids in my neighbourhood were saving their gum wrappers for me to add to my chain. They even captioned my 1967 yearbook photo: 'Got any gum wrappers?' I never realised how unique my chain was until almost 25 years later. In 1992, my wife, Deborah, and I were visiting the Ripley's museum in Ontario. We saw a giant gum-wrapper chain hanging from the ceiling as part of one of the exhibits. As we stared up at it, we were both thinking the same thing: my chain is much bigger. Deborah nudged me and said: 'You'd better do something about that.' I spoke to the manager, and he put me in touch with Ripley's vice-president of acquisitions. He was impressed by my chain, but told me there was a Guinness World Record holder who had a longer one. My competitive nature kicked in. I went to the Wrigley's purchasing department and asked them to supply me with Juicy Fruit wrappers – my favourite flavour. They gave me 5,000 to begin with, then 10,000 more. Before long, I blew past the 7,400ft (2.25km) record and reached 10,000ft. I became the Guinness World Record holder for the longest gum wrapper chain in the world – at 12,105ft – in March 1994, and I have officially broken my own record eight times since. So far, no one has come close to beating me. The second-longest chain I'm aware of belongs to a fellow in Germany whose chain is 17,000ft. I connect with other chain-makers via my website and I call them my 'chain gang'. There are roughly 50 of us and we share photos of our chains and the lengths we've reached. According to the latest official measurement, my chain is 23.226 miles (37.4km) long. Getting the chain measured is quite an undertaking. Every five years, land surveyors come over, and two witnesses have to independently verify the length. It takes many hours. In March this year, they recorded that my chain was made of 2,963,789 wrappers. There have been plenty of exciting moments since I started 60 years ago. For example, when I reached the 10-mile mark, I was featured in a book called Weird Virginia and they dubbed me the 'World's Greatest Wrap Artist'. That was fabulous. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion In 2010, the president of Ripley's Entertainment invited me to New York so he could sign the 3 millionth link to the chain in Times Square in front of the press. It was such a thrilling day. I got my brother-in-law to help me load the chain into a van and drive it all the way to the city, where we set it up in a big auditorium in front of all the cameras. Recently, I learned I was a hit on TikTok – a video about me got 7.5m views. Some people wrote: 'Get a life! What is wrong with you?' To that, I say: I have a life. I'm retired now but I had a successful career as an operations manager of four businesses, which took me all over the world, including to the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Germany. I am a busy and fulfilled person. One day, I'd love to be able to say my chain is as long as a marathon (26.2 miles) – I'm only three miles off. After that, it would be poetic to reach 28 miles, which is the length of Virginia beach in the US, where I've lived with my wife since 2002. It's the largest pleasure beach in the world. The chain will keep growing as long as my hands keep working. To have something to show for your time on this earth is very gratifying. As told to Lara Olszowska Do you have an experience to share? Email experience@
CTV News
an hour ago
- General
- CTV News
‘No longer a danger to the public': Police arrest 13-year-old boy after senior fatally stabbed in Pickering, lift shelter-in-place alert
Police say they have arrested a 13-year-old boy who was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of an elderly woman outside her Pickering home on Thursday.
CTV News
an hour ago
- General
- CTV News
Investigation underway after 2 men stabbed during ‘disturbance' in Mississauga: police
Peel Regional Police were called to the area of Boylen Road and Telford Way following a May 29 stabbing. (Jacob Estrin/CTV News Toronto) Two men in their 30s were taken to the hospital after being stabbed in Mississauga on Thursday evening, say paramedics. The incident happened in the area of Boylen Road and Telford Way, near Derry and Bramalea roads. Peel Regional Police (PRP) said they were called there just after 6:30 p.m. for reports of a 'disturbance.' They said officers at the scene found two males with injuries. The victims were taken to a trauma centre with critical injuries, but are currently in stable condition, PRP said. Peel paramedics said they transported two patients in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. An investigation is now underway to determine the cause of this incident and what led up to it, police said. Anyone with further information is asked to contact PRP or Crime Stoppers anonymously.
CTV News
2 hours ago
- General
- CTV News
Puppy hurt in brutal Caribbean attack recovering in Ontario
Kitchener Watch A young puppy hurt in a machete attack is recovering in Ontario. CTV's Alexandra Holyk tells us how a Guelph doctor came to the rescue.
