University Canada West- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW takes second place at 2026 National MBA Games - Education News Canada February 10, 2026
- 181 Conestoga College employees laid off ahead of the holidays - CBC December 18, 2025
- B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters - Vancouver Sun November 14, 2025
- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - Business in Vancouver November 13, 2025
- Costly Fumbles by a BC College Left Me Stuck, Student Claims - The Tyee November 3, 2025
- University Canada West - UCW Professor Dr. Jafar Heydari Named Among the World's Top 2% Scientists - Education News Canada September 23, 2025
- University Canada West - Dr. Stacie Chappell joins UCW as Dean, School of Management and Business - Education News Canada September 2, 2025
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Farewell Saleem Samad, A Fearless Bangladeshi Journalist – OpEd - Eurasia Review March 1, 2026
- Top Social Media Stocks To Watch Now - March 1st - MarketBeat March 1, 2026
- The Lemon Olive Oil Shot Trend That Took Social Media By Storm, Explained - Tasting Table March 1, 2026
- Ndiaga Diagne: Alleged social media of Austin Buford's bar shooting suspect; ‘Candace Owens fan’ | World News - Hindustan Times March 1, 2026
- CLARIFICATION ON VIDEO CIRCULATING ON SOCIAL MEDIA INVOLVING A FEMALE EMPLOYEE – FORGERY, UTTERING OF FALSE DOCUMENTS, AND THEFT BY SERVANT March 1, 2026 – The Zambia Police Service wishes to clarify the circumstanc - facebook.com March 1, 2026
- A mum has taken to social media to share her travel hack when flying with toddlers. However, what seems like genius parenting advice has sent the comments section into a tailspin. - facebook.com March 1, 2026
- Families deserve a fair shot at protecting children online, not more of the same - The Hill March 1, 2026
- Lions RB David Montgomery denies report that he 'wants out' in social media post - Yahoo Sports March 1, 2026
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Notes on Mentorship, I
Erin Dick gave a superb talk, and then led an illuminating discussion, on the topic of “mentorship” today, the last day of the IABC’s world conference. Inspired by the speaker and my discussion attendees, I will be posting on this topic … Continue reading
International Association of Business Communicators: World Conference 2013
The IABC’s 2013 world conference has been quite a success so far. The presentations have been amply tweeted at the hashtag #IABCWC13. (My tweets about this event and other things can be found at @thebasil.)
The Art of Scolding, cont’d.
“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading
The Art of Scolding
In 1987 I promoted a story about “Secular Organizations for Sobriety” [SOS] that appeared in the Buffalo News. SOS was one of those secular humanist initiatives promulgated by Paul Kurtz’s publishing enterprises out of Buffalo, in this case “Free Inquiry,” … Continue reading
Vancouver Schools and Social Media
The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading
Academic Blogging
My new favourite blog is by a Ukrainian-born scholar of Hispanic Literature named “Clarissa” – she doesn’t reveal her surname or some other would-be identifying information, like her university’s name – whose work I first encountered on Jonathan Mayhew’s Stupid … Continue reading