Rogers, RIM founders, move up on rich list

TORONTO – Those bets placed on telecom and wireless by certain Canadians have paid off in spades, reports Canadian Business Magazine this month. This year's “Rich 100,” the magazine's annual ranking of the wealthiest Canadians, is populated by a bumper crop of billionaires, with three of the top 10 placed there thanks to their sizable bets (and an enormous amount of work) done on telecom. And for the first time ever, more than half of the magazine’s list is made up of people who have hit the billionaire mark: 54 of them, in fact, up from 46 in last year's...