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
- EDITORIAL | 'Speak, so that I may see you': Trump's social media post far from presidential - Texarkana Gazette December 16, 2025
- Social Media Could Help Speed up Humanitarian Responses in Crises - The Good Men Project December 16, 2025
- Fort Bend County Judge KP George’s recent social media post part of focus during latest hearing - Click2Houston December 16, 2025
- South Korea nominee for media commission to seek social media curbs for teens - The Economic Times December 16, 2025
- Pianist Lim Dong-hyek hospitalized after distressing social media post - The Korea Herald December 16, 2025
- South Korea nominee for media commission to seek social media use curbs for teens - Yahoo News Canada December 16, 2025
- Social media reactions to HC Mike Elko naming Texas A&M's new OC - Yahoo Sports December 16, 2025
- An Idaho Alligator? Here’s What Actually Happened - Newstalk KGVO December 16, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
Being on paper
One of my favourite publishing ventures is the “Certain Days: The Freedom for Political Prisoners” calendars, “a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, with two political prisoners being held in maximum-security … Continue reading
Detail
I seem to have come to the point where I no longer recall the exact word but I do recall exactly why only that exact word will do.
Road to improvement
Published in 1903. Found near Haro and Bidwell, Vancouver.
Continued enchantment
I’ve lived in Vancouver for almost 25 years and I’ve never, not for one moment, gotten over my luck. Recently, finally, I found an easy way to convey my continued enchantment to people:
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)
Business Communications course ‘in a box’ – terrific resource
My colleagues at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been really rising to the occasion during the pandemic, in all ways. I’m especially impressed, as an editor, by how prolific and intelligent their publishing ventures have been. Here’s another super-helpful one. My … Continue reading