University Canada West- Victim of growing tuition scam knew exactly where her $37K went — but no one would help her get it back - CBC March 9, 2026
- UNIVERSITY CANADA WEST UCW hosts Startup Grind Pitch Battle Royale - Education News Canada March 6, 2026
- 181 Conestoga College employees laid off ahead of the holidays - CBC December 18, 2025
- B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters - Vancouver Sun November 14, 2025
- 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
- Parul University Hosts 30+ Global Universities for International Week 2025 - Careers360 September 4, 2025
- Communications Strategy
- Dawn S. Smith Appointed VP of Marketing & Communications for Clarksville-Montgomery County Economic Development Council - Clarksville Online April 10, 2026
- Deep Dive: The 2026 State of Internal Communications - Ragan Communications April 10, 2026
- Resolve Strategic Communications Launches - New Jersey Business Magazine April 9, 2026
- Ignite X Brings Strategic Communications Expertise to Machine Relations: the Emerging Discipline of AI Search Visibility - The Manila Times April 9, 2026
- Daniel Bryan and Eric Shuffler Launch Resolve Strategic Communications - Insider NJ April 9, 2026
- Bryan, Shuffler join forces for new public affairs, communications firm - RE-NJ April 9, 2026
- Cardio Diagnostics Holdings (NASDAQ: CDIO) Engages IBN to Support Corporate Communications Strategy - The Globe and Mail April 8, 2026
- Versus Systems (NASDAQ: VS) Engages IBN for Corporate Communications Strategy - The Globe and Mail April 8, 2026
Category Archives: Robert’s posts
Christmas season comment
I will never get used to the term “anti-woke.”
Anniversary
This month we begin the eleventh year of No Contest Communications. Tierney set the tone and the theme with her inaugural posts. I especially like “On Being Forgiven.”
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Apropos The Georgia Straight
Dan Savage was not exaggerating the problems faced by alt-weeklies in recent years. From The Tyee last week: The crew at the Georgia Straight wrote until the bitter end, filing stories and chronicling Vancouver’s culture after the paycheques stopped flowing … Continue reading
Savage Love
The prose of Dan Savage is bold and crystal clear – and edifying to a profound degree. It always has been. I started reading his column in the San Francisco’s alt-weekly back in the early 90s and kept up that … Continue reading
If you hadn’t noticed …
Here we go again. — Liberals loathe the political Right’s hypocrisy and unfairness. Conservatives loathe the Left’s immorality and delicacy. The groups’ estimations of their own qualities, though, are less precise. The question of “hypocrisy” is particularly interesting. La Rochefoucauld … Continue reading
Looking for new colleagues
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a vibrant and splendid place to work. My own department – Applied Communications (in the Melville School of Business) – is looking for two new instructors. We’re a good crowd. Apply here.
Job-seekers need their “weaker ties”
This is a really interesting study that fortifies an important intuition: A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market … Continue reading
How to write a lede
From the Irish Times: Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to … Continue reading
Silly professor
It is puzzling, perhaps, when the paper of record publishes a piece arguing that it’s a waste of money and time providing and receiving education in schools.
Hootsuite blog
Hootsuite, Vancouver’s vaunted social media management company, has helpfully updated the design of its already excellent blog. There are fewer listicles and more how-to cheat sheets (a favourite genre of mine, as my students know). A couple of days ago … Continue reading