Toronto

"Despite the rancour and arguments back and forth, the result was overwhelmingly in favour of electing Risley’s board; more than 82 percent of the votes cast were for the alternate slate of directors. “We killed the vote,” Derrick Rowe recalled. “Vic Young called the mayors, the unions. We called the shareholders. Who votes? Shareholders. We were in Toronto and Montréal.... They were in the union halls.”"

"Paddick and Risley met to discuss the deal with Keeping at Joso’s, a seafood restaurant in Toronto’s ritzy Yorkville neighbourhood. It ended up being a very expensive fish dinner for Risley. As the asking price crept north of US $ 50 million, Paddick sensed it was giving Risley pause. Ultimately, though, Risley wasn’t deterred by an extra $ 5 million. “You know what, Brendan? Ten years down the road, if $ 5 million is the difference between whether this was the right call or the wrong call, we shouldn’t be doing this deal at all,” Risley told him. “Let’s do it.’”"

"Barrick Resources’ first gold mine was about to be acquired. It was the Renabie mine near Wawa, Ontario. The deal was that Barrick would merge with Sungate Resources of Vancouver, which owned a 100-percent interest in the Renabie mine. The merged corporation would be known as Barrick Resources Limited. When the merger was completed in September 1983, Cullaton Lake Gold Mines of Toronto bought, from the merged company, a 50-percent interest in the Renabie gold mine."

"When I married Melanie I said to her, “Darling, we may have a lovely house in London, and an English country place and a Swiss ski chalet, but our home is Toronto. That’s where we're going to bring up our kids. If you marry me, just remember that.” I wanted to be sure that my children weren't nomads. Georgian Bay and Toronto, that’s where we belonged. There was never any doubt that I would come back, once the foundation was safe. I couldn’t come back with all the negative publicity and with all the debts. So, I had to come back, but I had to be prepared for a couple of bad years. That meant that I had to come back to Canada with success behind me."

"Within a few days, Jones was on his way to meet with Rutledge at his firm’s office in Buttonville Airport, northeast of Toronto. Rutledge greeted him warmly, then set the first rule. Before negotiations began for Sealand to acquire his company, Rutledge wanted a guaranteed non-refundable deposit of $500,000. No matter how the negotiations proceeded and whether or not a purchase deal was reached, Rutledge would pocket the $500,000. Rutledge also set a negotiating deadline. If a deal was not reached within ninety days of Rutledge receiving the deposit, discussions would be cut off and Rutledge would retain the half-million dollars."

"BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research in Motion, Toronto, Key Porter, 2010, pp. 115–"

"Neither shock nor rupture in this decision made in agreement with her mother, but rather a happy event: the birth of her son in 1970. True to family tradition, the young mother preferred to devote herself entirely to the education of her offspring. Without diminishing this original motivation, another, more diffuse yet just as compelling, drives her to leave the St-Hubert fold. “Who would I be without the family business?” This is the question that has always haunted her. This project, which was her parents’ and which she inherited by default, shaped her childhood. But it suddenly became burdensome. Too simple, too predictable. Business? In truth, she fell into it when she was little, without really choosing. Hence this irrepressible need to break free, to go in search of herself and discover new horizons. She therefore followed her husband for two years to Toronto, then for fourteen months to Quebec City. Back in Montreal, she fulfilled her dream: to pursue a DEC in visual arts at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal. A recipient of a piano award, she took flute lessons—an easier instrument to carry. The artist within her had finally spread her wings. Claire was even about to start a bachelor’s degree in printmaking at Concordia University. But all this is now in the past, as she is back at the Pont-Viau headquarters. The rotisseries have finally caught up with her."