University Canada West- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 2025
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW welcomes inaugural Fulbright Canada Research Chair - Education News Canada August 13, 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
- 'Like my big brother': Survivor of Banff rockfall says friend who died saved him - CBC June 23, 2025
- University Canada West - University Canada West Announces New Interim Chairs for its Departments for 2025 - Education News Canada May 7, 2025
- The Best 8 Reasons to Study at University Canada West - vocal.media April 28, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- YouTube down!: How social media shutdowns affect users - and how they react - Storyboard18 October 16, 2025
- YouTube down or net down? Confused users flood social media after outage - The Economic Times October 16, 2025
- Social media causes matcha shortage - thepostathens.com October 16, 2025
- YouTube says it has restored service after global streaming disruptions - Al Jazeera October 16, 2025
- Fountain Police Department warns parents of new social media prank - KOAA News 5 October 16, 2025
- SFU study looks at social media's effects on young minds - Yahoo News Canada October 16, 2025
- Social media search for missing Semmes tortoise Joey intensifies - WKRG October 16, 2025
- Jeffco Sheriff says rules around social media warrant delayed ID of Evergreen shooter’s online threats - kdvr.com October 16, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
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
Flagging the #tags
It’s not just the photos available for viewing and sale by the Magnum Agency but how they are tagged: Magnum Photos, one of the world’s most celebrated photographic agencies, is to re-examine the content of its archive of more than … Continue reading