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    Justin Trudeau;

    Why does Trudeau keep sucking up to foreign tech companies?

    Despite the PM’s love for Silicon Valley, relying on foreign tech firms for jobs risks turning Canada into a branch-plant economy
    Chris Sorensen

    Canada’s real economic challenge? Innovation.

    A new report shows that Canada isn’t pulling its weight in fostering innovative, globally competitive companies, writes Chris Sorensen
    Trashed Blackberry phones sit in a bucket during the NBC Today Show in New York

    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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    How Jim Balsillie plans on selling the North

    For just one time, Jim Balsillie would take the Northwest Passage—in the hopes of finding sovereignty in the Arctic, tourism and jobs
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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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    Balsillie behind efforts to display Erebus bell to public

    A 3D replica of the first artifact recovered from HMS Erebus is going on display — and credit goes to BlackBerry’s billionaire former co-CEO
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    York turns down $30 million

    Professors feared influence of RIM-founder’s think tank
    Research In Motion

    RIM co-founder Jim Balsillie resigns

    Company posts its first quarterly loss since 2005
    The fall of the BlackBerry titans

    The fall of the BlackBerry titans

    Strategic blunders, reckless pride and bad luck unravelled it all
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    Farewell, then, Lazaridis and Balsillie

    RIM’s co-CEOs are taking a big step away from the spotlight
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