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
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
- 9 Best Online Universities in Canada - True Scoop July 23, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- US social media addiction trial takes new turn with therapist's testimony - The Hindu February 26, 2026
- Policing the Feed: AI-Generated Sexual Content on Social Media and Its Impacts on the Vulnerable - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) February 26, 2026
- Condescending and Harmful: Australia’s Social Media Ban - Counterpunch February 26, 2026
- Security heightened at Permian High School after social media threat tied to Odessa shooting - newswest9.com February 26, 2026
- Khloé Kardashian Reveals She Personally Manages Her Social Media Accounts - AOL.com February 26, 2026
- Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s - The Guardian February 26, 2026
- Social media addiction trial takes new turn with therapist's testimony - The Japan Times February 26, 2026
- Condescending and harmful: An update on Australia’s social media ban - Independent Australia February 26, 2026
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Communicators identifying threats
These are the “ideal changes” we should be looking for in American political journalism going forward, according to No Contest favourite Jay Rosen: * Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job * Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen … Continue reading
Scholar Strike Canada
Here’s the schedule of events to be broadcast live and then video-archived. And here are some very illuminating resources. My university’s president and my dean both support the scholar strike, as do my teaching colleagues, of course. Scholar Strike originated … Continue reading
Another form of school caution during the pandemic
This semester almost all of my university’s classes are online. Because of that, students can participate in Kwantlen courses – indeed, courses at any British Columbia university – from anywhere in the world. This distressing caution comes from The Tyee: Some … Continue reading
The School Year
The day after Labour Day is always a wonderful day. My students rescue the best in me.
To slough and to slither
The xkcd webcomic is very entertaining. (h/t language log)