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
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
It’s Usually Not Mother’s Day
Are there any people other than mothers who ever truly know that they have been the most important person in the life of someone else? I like this question, and ask some variant of it in most of my professional … Continue reading
Complex Communications Solutions vs. Perhaps a Simpler One
From Paul Constant in The Stranger today: Chris DeRose published an article at Business Insider addressing the fact that McDonald’s is failing at customer service, with a vice president of the company openly talking about the “rude or unprofessional employees” … Continue reading
No More Memos
Delivered to my house this week was the instructor’s edition of Daniel G. Riordan’s stalwart textbook Technical Report Writing Today, 10th edition. I was thrilled, I have to say, having used the 9th edition of Riordan’s text in my upper-level … Continue reading
Make Room for Working
“Of the three goals to which all aspire – success in love, in society, and in profession – only two are plausible simultaneously: you can’t have a smooth love life, a rich social life, and still get your work done. … Continue reading
Students Look at Digital Media
Students in my “Marketing in a Digital World” class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been keeping one another up to date on developments in digital and social media with their blogs and their classroom presentations. This class would be impossible … Continue reading
“Scholarly Writing and How to Get It Done”
That’s the subtitle of my favourite blog on academic writing, “Stupid Motivational Tricks,” authored (primarily) by Jonathan Mayhew, a Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas, who is a friend of mine and has been since our days in … Continue reading