Today marks one of the symbolically more important launches in the BlackBerry universe: the Q10, the first keyboard-equipped BB10 phone, is at last available on the company’s Canadian home turf. As promised, customers with Bell, Rogers and Telus (as well as their Virgin Mobile, Fido and Koodo sub-brands) can snap up what’s arguably the true Waterloo flagship for about $ 199 on a 3-year contract, or between $ 625 to $ 700 contract-free. Shoppers are largely buying the same phone no matter the carrier, although Rogers is hoping to lure the undecided with both LTE on an extra frequency as well as access to the white model. Just be prepared for a slightly longer wait if you plan to buy one in person — BlackBerry warns that it’s limiting Q10 supply to the Greater Toronto Area for the first day or two to accommodate demand high demand in Canada’s financial capital.
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A group of us TechCrunchers bundled up and headed to the 
Monday night was our TechCrunch meetup in Toronto and we had a blast. The city’s entrepreneurs and tech community showed up in full force for a night of networking and revelry, hosted at Toronto local gem the Steamwhistle Brewery. For me personally, this was a chance to put faces to a lot of names and voices I’ve spoken to many times over the phone, and in general our writer and events team had a blast meeting up with Toronto’s best and brightest.
The Canadian startup incubator scene has taken off lately, and the one of the latest to appear was Toronto-based 
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