Big dreams, part 2

The Globe and Mail

Jane Taber
December 7, 2007

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Jim Balsillie has a dream. Another one.

And since his first dream - the one where he made billions through a handheld wireless device called the BlackBerry - worked out so well, it's worth paying attention to this new one.

The co-CEO of the Waterloo-based Research in Motion dreams of a day when people will go to a cocktail party or sit around their dinner tables and not discuss things like a "super-expensive bottle of Scotch" or their houses or their cars.

Rather, the conversation will be about global issues and the part that Canada can play in the world …

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