University Canada West- 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
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW Launches New Alumni Grant to Support Lifelong Learning - Education News Canada August 12, 2025
- Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Los Alamos Daily Post August 7, 2025
- 9 Best Online Universities in Canada - True Scoop July 23, 2025
- University Canada West - Understanding Indigenous History series takes to the skies with Air Canada - Education News Canada June 26, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Ilia Topuria Says He’s Being Extorted, Releases Statement On Social Media - Cageside Press December 15, 2025
- Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’ Sparks Fury on Social Media with Radical Anti-Capitalist and Woke Changes, Completely Inverting the Original Message of the Book - IMDb December 15, 2025
- US social media requirements for foreign visitors could have 'chilling effect' on travel, industry group says - TradingView — Track All Markets December 15, 2025
- Rob Reiner's death elicits social media tributes honoring film legacy - TribLIVE.com December 15, 2025
- Beyond the Ban: Integrating Australia’s Social Media Age Restriction into Global Compliance Strategy - FiscalNote December 15, 2025
- Social Media Platforms Played Key Role in Coordinating Relief Efforts During 2024 DANA Disaster in Spain - geneonline.com December 15, 2025
- Waterbury's Water Crisis Highlights Ongoing Struggles With Infrastructure And Community Response - i95 ROCK December 15, 2025
- Malaysia to require social media platforms with at least 8M users to register - Anadolu Ajansı December 15, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Quantifying the Costs of Workplace Conflict
Steve McGuire has an excellent, concise piece in Mediate.com showing how the “hidden” costs of workplace conflict can, in fact, be helpfully quantified. Various indirect factors go into calculating the real (hidden) costs of workplace conflict. In addition to wasted … Continue reading
New $ for Visual Artists?
The United States Copyright Office has recommended to the U.S. Congress that it reconsider its copyright laws so that visual artists can benefit from the resale of their work. Visual artists typically do not share in the long-term financial success … Continue reading
Again I agree with Clarissa, one of my favourite bloggers: It is shocking that this completely idiotic piece on LinkedIn [“All Linked Up with Nowhere to Go,” by Amy Friedman] has been declared one of the best pieces of business journalism in 2013. … Continue reading
“Undermining Infrastructure at the Core”
Our friends at Sophos have issued their Security Threat Report 2014. The entire report is necessary, sometimes grim reading. Here are two “trends to watch”: Attacks on corporate and personal data in the cloud: As businesses increasingly rely on various cloud services for … Continue reading
A Generation of Mentors
It’s hard for me to re-read KPMG‘s October report “BC Junior Mining at a Crossroads,” commissioned by the BC Securities Commission, without feeling not just loss but what will be lost. The report’s findings echo the lamentations of my friends … Continue reading
Vancouver’s Commonweal
In North America it is Canada’s decided, tenacious commonweal that sets it apart. We look after one another more often than not, and less out of zeal than out of habit and good sense. A city’s public library is a testament … Continue reading
You talk just fine?
When teaching oral communications to my students, I don’t feel comfortable critiquing those who speak in “uptalk,” that habit of ending sentences with a rising inflection so that declarative sentences sometimes seem to sound like questions. To me that would … Continue reading
“More bad writing” …
… presented courtesy of our friend Jonathan Mayhew’s superb blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks: Scholarly Writing and How to Get It Done.” It is a lovely post that ends with this poignant sentence: “There are more objectionable sentences here that I … Continue reading
Changing Norms
Reuben Fischer-Baum of Jezebel has made a wonderfully entertaining GIF that presents six decades of the most popular names for girls, “state by state.” He writes: Baby naming generally follows a consistent cycle: A name springs up in some region … Continue reading
The copyright robots
There is a wonderful story on NPR this morning, “Record Company Picks Fight – With the Wrong Guy,” about Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, who was threatened by an Australian record label called Liberation Music with a copyright-infringement lawsuit after he posted … Continue reading