University Canada West- 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
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
- Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Los Alamos Daily Post August 7, 2025
- Foreign student cuts hit Vancouver office leasing market - RENX July 11, 2025
- The Best 8 Reasons to Study at University Canada West - vocal.media April 28, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Women and Children Are Being Digitally Undressed on Social Media - The Good Men Project January 15, 2026
- Social media is reshaping what Americans buy — and what they think they need - ConsumerAffairs January 15, 2026
- Australia social media ban: Companies deactivate nearly 5 million kids’ accounts in a month - Times of India January 15, 2026
- Jacksonville official placed on leave after urging social media followers to dodge ICE enforcement - Florida’s Voice January 15, 2026
- No Threat Found After Social Media Rumors About Barnegat Schools - Jersey Shore Online January 15, 2026
- Social media is abuzz with the ’20-second thyroid morning protocol’, internal medicine expert breaks down the routine - The Indian Express January 15, 2026
- A social media ban is looking likely in the UK, too - Kidscreen January 15, 2026
- Social media challenge leads to arrest at Englewood Walmart - Gulf Coast News and Weather January 15, 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