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 - thetyee.ca November 3, 2025
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - Vancouver Sun August 22, 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
- 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
- WWL revives '12 for the Road' with new mocktails and social media influencers - WWLTV.com December 21, 2025
- Trump Administration Proposes Five-Year Social Media Disclosure For Visa Waiver Travelers - Benzinga December 21, 2025
- Rights Groups Launch Major Social Media Campaign At European Parliament Over Sudan Chemical Weapons Claims - THEJ.CA December 21, 2025
- How social media reacted to Miami’s 10-3 win over Texas A&M - Cleveland.com December 21, 2025
- Australian social media ban threatens marginalized youth connectivity - Nikkei Asia December 21, 2025
- ‘From social media to weight loss drugs, limbic capitalism profits by hooking us’ - Times of India December 21, 2025
- Andrei Arlovski fights social media star at Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua event - MMAWeekly.com December 21, 2025
- Australia’s Social Media Ban is a Win for Gambling Companies - skepchick.org December 21, 2025
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
Sharing Lingo
Via Bryan Garner’s amazing Law Prose Blog: “There once was a time when everyday folk spoke one language, and learned men wrote another. It was called the Dark Ages.” Samuel T. Williamson, “How to Write Like a Social Scientist,” in … Continue reading
Codeacademy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5-G2hrb8c#t=64 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Marketing student explains why students should learn code in his post “The ‘C’ Word, and Why You Need to Add It to Your Vocabulary.” “Social collaboration through learning is an incredible motivator” to understand and write … Continue reading
“Happy”
Social Media at its most buoyant.
Social Media Landscape 2014
Our friends at CMO.com have released their Social Media Landscape 2014 table, helpfully colour-coded.
A Defense of Kristin Stewart …
… and of the poem she recently published, surrounded by snark, in Marie Claire magazine. The poem is called “My Heart is a Wiffle Ball / Freedom Pole.” Writes poet and UCLA professor Brian Kim Stefans: This [post] is partly to address … Continue reading
Bryan Garner’s LawProse.org
Bryan Garner is a lawyer whose range of work on the topics of writing and rhetoric is humbling – to me as it should be to you, too. His blog is a gas. Here he is, just the other day, … Continue reading
Teaching on the Cheap
This figure is staggering: Adjunct professors and other “contingent employees” make up 70% of the faculty in American universities. These people have no hope for tenure at their schools. Writes James Hoff in The Guardian, “All but the most elite … Continue reading
“Ladies Learning Code”
A brilliant former student of mine highly recommends this organization, “a women-run not-for-profit working to empower and inspire more women and girls to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of the web and technology.” Ladies Learning Code is … Continue reading
Goosebumps
This new ad, titled “Missing Work,” was created by Bell Canada for its “Let’s Talk Mental Health” initiative. It captures a moment – a short routine, really – very common among the chronically depressed. It is staggeringly understated and beautiful. … Continue reading
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