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BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on creating the buzziest new film in Canadian cinema

To tell the story of a fallen tech giant, he channelled his inner Dolly Parton
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Q&A: BlackBerry’s Jay Baruchel loves movies, weed and his now-obsolete phone

The Montreal native’s latest film chronicles one of the country’s most epic business success stories. Baruchel’s own life story is the stuff of cinema, too.
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In a bid to save itself, BlackBerry to stop making BlackBerrys

The end of physical-phone manufacturing seems like doomsday for the Waterloo, Ont. company—but it may just pay off
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A surefire made-in-Canada way to lose $650 billion

Here’s a stock tip Valeant investors should have heeded: If a company that’s not a bank becomes the largest in Canada, run!
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Tracing the BlackBerry diaspora

BlackBerry’s workforce has shrunk dramatically since 2011. Here’s where a lot of those people went.
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BlackBerry blow-up: How a leadership rift ripped RIM apart

An excerpt of ’Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry,’ on the fatal division between Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
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Cover story preview: Selling the North

For Jim Balsillie, finding the Franklin expedition was the beginning of bigger goals in the Arctic
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The changing world of tech

March 30: The tech world is getting a shake up, from the end of Future Shop to a rise in gender discrimination trials
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It’s BlackBerry’s no-good, very bad, possibly good, day

March 27: The mobile maker reports Q4 profits, plus, Stephen Poloz goes to London, live-streaming your life, and the rise of the "sand mafia"
U.S. President Obama leaves a lectern at the White House in Washington after delivering a statement regarding air strikes on Islamic State positions in Syria

Obama’s Blackberry great for security—not so much for fun

As he told Jimmy Kimmel, the president doesn’t even text.