TIFF Lightbox is a cultural centre in Toronto , Ontario , Canada, located on the first five floors of the Lightbox and Festival Tower on the northwest corner of King Street and John Street .
72-582: TIFF Lightbox features five cinemas, two restaurants, major exhibitions and galleries, a gift shop, a rooftop terrace, and learning studios. It is the headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival and serves as a venue for other film screenings and smaller specialty film festivals throughout the year. The venue was previously known as the TIFF Bell Lightbox until its corporate sponsorship by Bell Media
144-522: A Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list. This list is produced from a wider poll of film industry professionals and academics throughout Canada, separately from the annual top-ten list. The festival's major prize, the TIFF People's Choice Award , is given to a feature-length film. It is not a juried prize, but is given to the film with the highest ratings as voted by the TIFF-going populace. It
216-423: A film reference library , galleries and workshops. The theatres present specially curated programming, as well as some new releases. Some of the films presented tie-in with exhibitions and retrospectives of actors or filmmakers. The extensive reference library and archives of film, which are open to the public, include publications and archival movies, as well as research and study space. The podium has been used by
288-641: A Slave (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), La La Land (2016), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Green Book (2018), Jojo Rabbit (2019), Nomadland (2020), Belfast (2021) and American Fiction (2023). TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and lasts for eleven days. The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 5 through 15, 2024. As of 2022 ,
360-851: A blue shield. RBC sponsors cultural events including the Toronto International Film Festival . It also sponsors the RBC Taylor Prize , a literary award for non-fiction writing in Canada, and hosts a yearly Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award. In July 2013, the RBC Foundation partnered with the University of Toronto to revive the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre , given to recognize achievement in Canadian theatre. RBC
432-695: A dedicated Canadian film stream. In 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood , a comedy film starring Martin Short . In 2007, it was announced that the organization generates an estimated annual impact of $ 67 million CAD. By 2011, that benefit had grown to $ 170 million CAD. In 2008, Rose McGowan caused controversy at a TIFF press conference for her film Fifty Dead Men Walking , when she noted that "I imagine, had I grown up in Belfast, I would 100% have been in
504-598: A ground-floor restaurant and a rooftop terrace are housed in a five-storey structure on King. TIFF Lightbox is built as a part of a five-storey structure that forms a part of the base of Festival Tower. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto , TIFF launched the Digital TIFF Lightbox , a streaming platform which served both as the primary venue for the online 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and as
576-602: A registered member with the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation , a federal agency insuring deposits at all of Canada's chartered banks. It is also a member of: The office of Chairman of the Board was created in October 1949 for outgoing president Sydney Dobson. Until 2001, the chairmanship was given to the current or former president. After John Cleghorn's retirement in 2001, the chairmanship
648-544: A rental store for Lightbox-style film programming both before and after the festival. In November 2022, TIFF announced that Cinema 1, the largest screening room at the Lightbox, would be renamed the Viola Desmond Theatre in 2023. TIFF Lightbox is held in the podium, a five-storey complex that forms the base of the Lightbox and Festival Tower. The entrance for the structure's 46-storey tower of condominiums
720-893: A research centre. There is also a gift shop, two restaurants, a lounge, a cafe, and a three-storey atrium. Cooperatively with Daniels Corporation, there is a 46-storey condominium atop, called the Festival Tower. The first film screening was Bruce McDonald 's Trigger . The first exhibition was a retrospective on Tim Burton , organized by the Museum of Modern Art (New York City). Subsequent exhibitions include Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions, Grace Kelly: From Movie Star to Princess, Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style, and Stanley Kubrick : The Exhibition, all of which were organized by TIFF, as well as one called Essential Cinema , featuring posters, images and props from TIFF's The Essential 100 list of films. The Film Reference Library (FRL)
792-807: A strong presence in the Prairies and opened the first bank in the Northwest Territories at Fort Smith in 1921. In 1935, RBC merged with Crown Savings and Loan Co. merged with Industrial Mortgage & Trust Co. RoyWest Banking Corporation was formed in Nassau, Bahamas in 1965, to undertake medium-term lending and trustee business in the British West Indies . Majority owned by seven firms, including RBC and Westminster Bank , sole ownership transferred to National Westminster Bank in 1987. RBC installed its first computer in 1961,
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#1732765171949864-795: A wide range of film and celebrity blogs. 43°38′48″N 79°23′25″W / 43.64667°N 79.39028°W / 43.64667; -79.39028 Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Canada ( RBC ; French : Banque Royale du Canada ) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization . The bank serves over 20 million clients and has more than 100,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia , it maintains its corporate headquarters in Toronto and its head office in Montreal . RBC's institution number
936-642: Is 003. In November 2017, RBC was added to the Financial Stability Board 's list of global systemically important banks . In Canada, the bank's personal and commercial banking operations are branded as RBC Royal Bank in English and RBC Banque Royale in French and serves approximately 11 million clients through its network of 1,284 branches. RBC Bank is a US banking subsidiary which formerly operated 439 branches across six states in
1008-772: Is a large Canadian film research collection. The library is a free resource for film lovers, filmmakers, students, scholars, and journalists, and is located on the fourth floor of the TIFF Lightbox. An affiliate member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) , the FRL promotes Canadian and global film scholarship by collecting, preserving, and providing access to a comprehensive collection of film prints, and film-related reference resources (including books, periodicals, scripts, research files, movies, press kits, and about 80 special collections. In 2016,
1080-517: Is on John Street, set back from the much smaller 19th-century buildings along King Street. As the new headquarters for the Toronto International Film Festival, it contains five cinemas of various sizes, a three-storey public atrium, two galleries, three learning studios, a centre for students and scholars, a bistro, a restaurant, a lounge, a gift shop, and a rooftop terrace. The five-screen cinema complex also includes
1152-652: Is one of Canada's largest sponsors of amateur sports and is the longest-running Canadian sponsor of the Olympic Games . It employs dozens of top-tier amateur athletes as part-time spokespeople through the RBC Olympians program. RBC is a former premier sponsor of Hockey Canada and previously owned the naming rights to the National Junior A Championship , then called the Royal Bank Cup (later
1224-777: Is presently referred to as the " Grolsch People's Choice Award"; past sponsors of the award have included Cadillac . The winners of this award have often later earned Academy Award nominations. People's Choice Awards are also presented for Documentary and Midnight Madness films. Each of the People's Choice Awards names first and second runners-up in addition to the winners. However, TIFF does present juried awards in some other categories. The festival presents three major awards for Canadian films: Best Canadian Film , Best Canadian First Feature Film , and Best Canadian Short Film , as well as awards for Best International Short Film , two FIPRESCI -sponsored International Critics' Prizes for
1296-596: Is the home of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), while Festival Tower contains condominium residences. The project was conceived in partnership by the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the King and John Festival Corporation. TIFF is a not-for-profit organization with an annual economic impact of $ 189 million CAD. TIFF Lightbox is supported by contributors including major sponsors Royal Bank of Canada and Visa ,
1368-464: The Academy Award for Best Actor while Slumdog Millionaire went on to win eight Oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards. Precious , which won the 2009 TIFF People's Choice Award, went on to win two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards. The King's Speech , the winner of the 2010 TIFF People's Choice Award, won four Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards, while Silver Linings Playbook , the winner of
1440-464: The BBC , TIFF is one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the world. In 1998, Variety acknowledged that TIFF "is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars, and market activity". In 2007, Time noted that TIFF had "grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period". In 2016, TIFF hosted 1,800 members of
1512-616: The CBC reported that the Royal Bank of Canada was indirectly hiring temporary foreign workers to replace 45 Canadian information technology workers. The CBC reported on May 7, 2013 that, during Question Period in Parliament, the NDP leveled accusations against the government and then Prime Minister Stephen Harper . Harper responded that the government has been working on problems with
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#17327651719491584-809: The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce . Both mergers were examined by the Competition Bureau of Canada, and ultimately rejected by Paul Martin , at the time the Finance Minister of Canada, and future Prime Minister . In 2000, RBC merged merchant credit/debit card acquiring business with the Bank of Montreal 's to form Moneris Solutions. In 2013, RBC completed the acquisition of the Canadian subsidiary of Ally Financial . An RBC branch in The Glebe neighbourhood of Ottawa
1656-562: The IBM 1401 , the first to do so in Canadian banking. In the 1960s, RBC Insurance was created. In 1968, it merged with Ontario Loan and Debenture Company (formerly Ontario Savings and Investment Society). RBC Insurance is the largest Canadian bank-owned insurance organization, with services to over five million people. It provides life, health, travel, home and auto and reinsurance products as well as creditor and business insurance services. The completion of Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto in 1976 saw
1728-559: The Sierra Club and Rainforest Action Network found that RBC was the fifth largest funder of fossil fuels in the world, and largest in Canada, investing over US$ 160 billion on fossil fuel projects since the Paris Agreement in 2015. This sparked criticism from environmental groups and climate activists. A more recent 2023 report from a coalition of environmental group places RBC as the largest financier of fossil fuel in
1800-571: The Southeastern United States , but now only offers cross-border banking services to Canadian travellers and expats. RBC's other Los Angeles -based US subsidiary City National Bank operates 79 branches across 11 US states. RBC also has 127 branches across seventeen countries in the Caribbean, which serve more than 16 million clients. RBC Capital Markets is RBC's worldwide investment and corporate banking subsidiary, while
1872-743: The Union Bank of Halifax . In the same year it built a bank branch in Winnipeg , Manitoba, designed by Carrère and Hastings , in beaux-arts classicism proclaiming the financial dominance of Winnipeg in the prairies. To improve its position in Ontario , RBC merged with Traders Bank of Canada in 1912 and in 1917 RBC merged with Quebec Bank , which was founded in 1818 and chartered in 1822 in Quebec City . RBC's presence in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
1944-540: The Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a greater level of prominence. TIFF is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Lightbox, a year-round home for the appreciation of film in
2016-425: The "primary" venue of the festival. The 2020 edition was both in-person and virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic , with the virtual platform provided by Shift72 . The film screenings were initially declared as "masks optional", a decision that drew criticism for creating a potential superspreader event as the social nature of the festival could increase the risk for COVID-19 transmission. The festival reversed
2088-516: The 2012 TIFF People's Choice Award, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence . In 2019, the festival opened with Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band , the first time the festival ever opened with a Canadian documentary film. Many Hollywood studios premiere their films in Toronto due to TIFF's easy-going non-competitive nature, relatively inexpensive costs (when compared to European festivals), eager film-fluent audiences and convenient timing. In 2007,
2160-819: The Festival Group began construction on TIFF Lightbox , a new facility at the corner of King and John Streets in downtown Toronto, on land donated by Ivan Reitman and family. The $ 181 million facility was sponsored by Bell Canada , with additional support from the Government of Ontario and Government of Canada . In 2010, the organization opened its new headquarters at TIFF Lightbox. The facility, designed by local firm KPMB Architects , provides extensive year-round galleries, cinemas, archives and activities for cinephiles. The five-storey facility contains five cinemas, two gallery spaces, film archives and an extensive reference library, study spaces, film lab facility, and
2232-539: The IRA". In 2009, TIFF's decision to spotlight films from Tel Aviv created a controversy with protesters, saying it was part of an attempt to re-brand Israel in a positive light after the January 2009 Gaza War . In 2016, 397 films from 83 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, over 5,000 of whom were industry professionals. In 2017, TIFF reduced
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2304-478: The Merchants Bank expanded to Newfoundland on January 31, 1895. As the bank grew, executives changed its name to reflect its growth and western expansion. In 1901, the Merchants Bank of Halifax changed its name to the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). The centre of the Canadian financial industry had moved from Halifax to Montreal , so the Merchants Bank relocated its head office there. In 1910, RBC merged with
2376-688: The Merchants Bank of Halifax was founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia , as a commercial bank that financed the fishing and timber industries and the European and Caribbean import/export businesses. By 1869 the Merchants' Bank was officially incorporated and received its federal charter in the same year. During the 1870s and 1880s, the bank expanded into the other Maritime Provinces . When both the Newfoundland Commercial Bank and Union Bank of Newfoundland collapsed on December 10, 1894,
2448-625: The Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family ( Ivan Reitman , Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels) and The Daniels Corporation. Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival ( TIFF , often stylized as tiff ) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976,
2520-776: The RBC Cup). In addition, it supports Canadian hockey at the grassroots level through the RBC Play Hockey program. RBC owns naming rights to the RBC Centre , RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg , RBC Canadian Open , and RBC Heritage (formerly the Heritage Classic). From 2002 to 2012, RBC previously held the naming rights to what is now the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina . RBC has owned naming rights for
2592-518: The Royal Bank of Canada fired several traders in its corporate bond business, after another trader accused them of mismarking bonds the bank held by overpricing them, and marked down the values of the bonds and recognized $ 13 million of trading losses relating to the bonds. The bank said it investigated the accusations, and took remedial action. The Globe and Mail noted: "traders might have an incentive to boost [the bonds'] prices because it could have an impact on their bonuses." In April 2013,
2664-555: The Special Presentation and Discovery programs, and a NETPAC Prize for the best film from Asia having its world premiere at the festival. In 2015, the festival introduced Platform, a juried programme that champions director's cinema from around the world; one film from the stream is selected as the winner of the Platform Prize . For all of the juried awards, honorable mentions may also be given, although
2736-543: The TIFF Film Circuit, a program which partners with local organizations in other Canadian towns and cities to present screenings of films that have previously been shown at TIFF. In May 2024, TIFF announced that it will launch a full film market in 2026. The festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall , Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl . Beginning as a collection of
2808-632: The Temporary Foreign Worker Program for more than a year. On December 29, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ontario certified a class action lawsuit permitting employees of RBC Dominion Securities to seek $ 800 million in damages, over alleged unpaid wages for holidays and other vacation days. RBC is a member of the Canadian Bankers Association which includes Canada's Big Five banks, and is
2880-636: The Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award, presented annually by Canadian Immigrant , since 2013. The head office for the institution was initially located at the Merchants' Bank of Halifax Building, on Bedford Row, Halifax , Nova Scotia . The building served as the head office for the bank from 1864 to 1907. In 1907, the RBC relocated its head office to the Four Pillars Building, at 147 Saint Jacques Street (renumbered 221 in 1928), Montreal. The building
2952-530: The Toronto International Film Festival since 2010. Other events staged at the Lightbox include the Inside Out Film and Video Festival and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival . Since 2010, TIFF Lightbox has been the festival's home, marking its permanent move from Yorkville to King West . Future plans include a "Cinema Tower" on the block's north side, which will contain five additional theatres. The area also includes other prominent venues for
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3024-422: The US dollar payment system to limit terrorism and money laundering after the September 11, 2001, attacks . RBC replied that compliance with such laws does not represent an endorsement by the bank and on January 17, clarified its position on the application of the US laws, specifying that "with some exceptions" it does open accounts for dual citizens of the sanctioned countries. There have also been reports that
3096-590: The bank had closed the accounts of some Iranian-Canadian citizens. According to a report by Rainforest Action Network , RBC's financing of oil sands bitumen extraction and expansion amounted to "more than $ 2.3 billion in loans and financing [of] more than $ 6.9 billion in [corporate] debt between 2003 and 2007 for 13 companies including: Encana , Husky Energy , OPTI Canada , Delphi Energy, Canadian Oil Sands Trust , Northwest Upgrading, Suncor , TotalEnergies , Connacher Oil and Gas , InterPipeline and Enbridge ". A 2020 report on fossil fuel finance by
3168-464: The best-regarded films from film festivals around the world, it had an inaugural attendance of 35,000. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their feature releases. In 1978, the festival first began billing itself as "the Toronto International Film Festival" as a supplementary name, although it retained Festival of Festivals as its primary branding. At
3240-453: The decision within 24 hours citing a surge of new cases in Ontario, causing them to go fully virtual instead. The 2020 festival also saw the introduction of Industry Selects, an ad hoc film market for films seeking commercial distribution. Due to the pandemic, which prevented members of the North American film industry from travelling to international film festivals where many of the Industry Selects films were screened, they were available on
3312-454: The festival received a donation of 1,400 film prints, and launched a campaign to raise money for the preservation and storage of the films. Each year, TIFF releases a Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected by a poll of festival programmers across Canada as the ten best Canadian feature and short films of the year, regardless of whether or not they were screened at TIFF. The films selected are announced in December each year. Previously,
3384-712: The festival takes place every year in early September. The organization behind the film festival is also a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre, located in Downtown Toronto . The TIFF People's Choice Award - which is based on audience balloting - has emerged as an indicator of success during awards season , especially at the Academy Awards . Past recipients of this award include Oscar-winning films, such as Chariots of Fire (1981), Life Is Beautiful (1998), American Beauty (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), 12 Years
3456-520: The festival's CEO is Cameron Bailey . The Toronto International Film Festival was first launched as the Toronto Festival of Festivals , collecting the best films from other film festivals around the world and showing them to eager audiences in Toronto. Founded by Bill Marshall , Dusty Cohl , and Henk Van der Kolk , the inaugural event took place from October 18 through 24, 1976. That first year, 35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling had been
3528-406: The festival's director and CEO since 1994, while Noah Cowan became co-director of TIFF in 2004. In late 2007, Cowan became the artistic director of TIFF Lightbox , while longtime programmer Cameron Bailey succeeded as co-director. As of 2013, Bailey is now the artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as TIFF Lightbox's year round programming. TIFF was once centred on
3600-595: The festival's industry platform, but not on the commercial platform for the general public. Introduced at the time as a temporary measure due to the pandemic, it was converted into a permanent part of the TIFF program in 2022, and became the nucleus of the festival's plans to launch a full film market in 2026. Films such as American Beauty , Ray , Mr. Nobody , 127 Hours , Black Swan , Disobedience , The Five Obstructions , Singapore Sling , I Am Love and The Fabelmans have premiered at TIFF. Jamie Foxx 's portrayal of Ray Charles ultimately won him
3672-435: The festival, such as Roy Thomson Hall and the Scotiabank Theatre . The complex opened officially on September 12, 2010, with a block party. Bruce McDonald 's Trigger was the first film screened at the theatre. The galleries host exhibitions related to film and art history. The fourth-floor gallery is free to the public, while the larger main gallery on the first level hosts large paid exhibitions. The first exhibition
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#17327651719493744-578: The heart of downtown Toronto, although TIFF films are still screened at a wider variety of venues, including the Scotiabank Theatre Toronto , rather than exclusively at the Lightbox. TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque (formerly Cinematheque Ontario) and the Film Reference Library (FRL) opened in 1990. The TIFF Kids International Film Festival (formerly Sprockets) launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994. The festival also organizes
3816-471: The investment brokerage firm is known as RBC Dominion Securities . Investment banking services are also provided through RBC Bank and the focus is on middle market clients. In 2011, RBC was the largest Canadian company by revenue and market capitalization. In 2023, the company was ranked 38th in the Forbes Global 2000 . The company has operations in Canada and 36 other countries, and had CA$ 1.01 trillion of assets under management in 2021. In 1864,
3888-554: The juries are expected to select one overall winner. In 2019, the festival introduced the TIFF Tribute Awards , a gala ceremony at which distinguished actors and filmmakers are honoured for their lifetime career achievements; unlike most award categories, the Tribute Award honorees are named in advance of the festival. The hundreds of films screened at the annual festival are divided into sections (referred to by TIFF as "Programmes") based on genre (e.g. documentary , children's films ), format (e.g. short films , television episodes ),
3960-443: The latter receiving preferential treatment including a promotion and compensation increases. On January 15, 2007, CBC Radio reported RBC was "refusing" to open US dollar accounts for people of certain nationalities. Canadian citizens with dual citizenship in Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea or Sudan (mostly countries with US sanctions) were affected. The US Treasury Department restricts certain foreign nationals from using
4032-469: The majority of its critical head-office functions from Montreal to Toronto. The Royal Bank of Canada presently operates two headquarters, with its corporate headquarters at Royal Bank Plaza and its head office based at Place Ville-Marie. Most of its management operations are based in Toronto. On April 5, 2024, RBC terminated CFO Nadine Ahn and Ken Mason (vice president and head of capital and term funding) over an undisclosed personal relationship that led to
4104-438: The number of films screened compared to the 2016 festival with 255 feature-length films in 2017 , and also eliminated two venues that had been used in prior years. In 2019, it was reported that due to a request from its owner, Cineplex Entertainment , no TIFF films distributed by subscription video-on-demand services (specifically Amazon Video and Netflix ) are being screened at Scotiabank Theatre—which has been considered
4176-569: The press and print media outlets such as the Toronto Star , The Globe and Mail , The New York Times , The Times of India , Los Angeles Times , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Miami Herald , and the Toronto Sun have published a significant amount of festival coverage. Also, the major industry trade magazines Variety , The Hollywood Reporter and Screen International all produce daily editions during TIFF. TIFF reports also appear in weekly news magazines; American, Canadian and international entertainment shows; news services; and
4248-431: The relocation of many critical head-office functions from Montreal, with Toronto serving as RBC's corporate headquarters ever since. In 1993, RBC merged with Royal Trust . In 1998, RBC acquired Security First Network Bank in Atlanta—the first pure Internet bank. In the same year, the Royal Bank of Canada proposed to merge with the Bank of Montreal , at the same time as the Toronto-Dominion Bank proposed to merge with
4320-435: The same time it moved from the Harbour Castle Hotel to the Plaza II, and Wayne Clarkson replaced Marshall as the festival director. The number of galas increased from one to two per night and the Canadian Film Awards were incorporated into the festival. The Festival of Festivals name was dropped in 1994, with the event becoming known exclusively as the Toronto International Film Festival at that time. From 1994 to 2009,
4392-510: The status of filmmaker (e.g. "masters", first-time directors), and so forth. Up until the early 2010s there were sections reserved for Canadian films, but beginning in 2015 all Canadian films are integrated in sections with films from outside Canada. Currently the festival's 14 sections are as follows: In previous years, sections at TIFF have included Perspectives Canada, Canada First!, City to City ( 2009 to 2016), Future Projections, Vanguard (up to 2016), and Visions (up to 2011). According to
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#17327651719494464-578: The transaction is expected by late 2023, subject to regulatory approvals. In December 2023, RBC received approval from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to take over HSBC Bank in a deal. Conditions for the deal include that none of HSBC Canada's 4,000 employees will be laid off within six months of the closing date or two years for direct staff, and banking services will be provided at 33 HSBC branches for at least another four years. RBC will also provide $ 7 billion in financing for affordable housing developments in Canada . The bank's first modern identity
4536-428: The umbrella organization running TIFF was named "Toronto International Film Festival Group" (TIFFG). In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF. In 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes: As of 2015, Canadian films are now simply included alongside international films in the other film programs rather than being grouped as
4608-421: The winning films were screened at a smaller follow-up "Canada's Top Ten" festival at the Lightbox the following January, with a People's Choice Award then presented for that minifestival. In 2018, TIFF announced a change, under which instead of a dedicated festival, each Top Ten film will receive its own standalone theatrical run at the Lightbox throughout the year. Since 1984, every decade TIFF has also produced
4680-425: The world in 2022, investing US$ 42 billion in fossil fuel projects in that year alone. RBC invested in SCO Group during the series of court cases seeking to collect royalties from the users of Linux . In 2014, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission fined RBC $ 35,000,000 for engaging in more than 1,000 wash sales, fictitious sales, and other non-competitive practices over a three year period. In 2007,
4752-423: Was designed by firm Lippincott & Margulies , and was introduced in January 1962. From this point forward the bank's logo has contained the same basic element of a stylized lion clutching a globe, becoming more simplified with each iteration. Alongside promotion of the Royal Bank Plaza , a tweaked version of the mark by Montreal design consultancy Gottschalk + Ash silently debuted in June 1979. The same basic form
4824-439: Was discontinued in 2023. TIFF Lightbox opened in 2010 on land donated by Ivan Reitman and family. The venue replaced the Art Gallery of Ontario 's Jackman Hall as the primary screening venue of Cinematheque Ontario . During construction, crews found artifacts belonging to York General Hospital , located on the site in 1829. TIFF Lightbox opened as a cinema complex, and included the Toronto International Film Festival offices,
4896-445: Was firebombed in May 2010. The party responsible later identified themselves on Independent Media Center and threatened to make their presence at the upcoming 2010 G20 Toronto summit . In November 2022, RBC and HSBC Canada announced a deal which would see RBC acquiring 100% of the common shares of HSBC Canada for an all-cash purchase price of $ 13.5 billion, a multiple of 9.4 times HSBC Canada's estimated 2024 earnings. Completion of
4968-399: Was retained, however many lines were thickened and details simplified to facilitate printing at small sizes. The total brand overhaul and shortening of the Royal Bank name to RBC in August 2001 coincided with their expansion into the United States market. The direction of the lion, now further simplified, was reversed, the crown above omitted, and both the symbol and wordmark were placed within
5040-504: Was strengthened through a 1918 merger with Northern Crown Bank, the product of the 1908 merger of Northern Bank (established in 1905 in Winnipeg) and Crown Bank of Canada (1904), based in Ontario . RBC's presence in the Canadian Prairie was further expanded by the 1925 merger with the Union Bank of Canada , which had begun in Quebec City in 1865 as the Union Bank of Lower Canada, but changed its name in 1886. The Union Bank of Canada had moved its headquarters to Winnipeg in 1912, and had built
5112-413: Was the MoMA's monograph on Tim Burton , subsequent exhibits have included retrospectives of Federico Fellini , Grace Kelly , James Bond , David Cronenberg , Stanley Kubrick , and most recently, Andy Warhol . Festival Tower was developed by The Daniels Corporation and designed by Toronto-based architectural firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) and Kirkor Architects. TIFF Lightbox
5184-521: Was used as RBC's head office until 1928. The Four Pillars Building was later demolished, with only its facade remaining. In 1928, RBC moved its head office to the Old Royal Bank Building , at 360 Saint Jacques Street , Montreal. In 1962, RBC moved its head office to Place Ville-Marie , at University Street and René-Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal . In 1976, RBC completed Royal Bank Plaza , at 200 Bay Street , Toronto, and shifted
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