University Canada West- 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
- Scenes From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Los Alamos Daily Post August 7, 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
- University Canada West - Macleans.ca April 17, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Threads is making it easier to hide replies you don't like - Engadget October 30, 2025
- SJPD launches new social media series - newspressnow.com October 30, 2025
- Custom Social Platforms - Trend Hunter October 30, 2025
- Breece Hall’s Latest Cryptic Social Media Post Fuels Trade Rumors - Sportscasting October 30, 2025
- China's Commerce Ministry announces it will work with US to fix issues with TikTok - KABB October 30, 2025
- Analysts lower Meta price targets after social media giant says AI capex will keep climbing - Sherwood News October 30, 2025
- Phony AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media sites - Yahoo News Canada October 30, 2025
- AI and social media threaten creativity, literacy and local news - The Seattle Times October 30, 2025
Tag Archives: plain English
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … Continue reading
Aeon: Intellectual Culture
My new favourite place to go very morning is Aeon, a marvellous multimedia site devoted to intellectual culture: “big ideas, serious enquiry, a humane worldview and good writing.” From the About page: Aeon has four channels…. Most weekdays, it publishes … Continue reading
New Sophos series: “What is …?”
Sophos, the esteemed network-security company, is starting a new series on its always erudite blog. It is called “What Is …,” and it promises to turn “technical jargon into plain English.” The inaugural post, written by Paul Ducklin, is called … 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
A Generation of Mentors
It’s hard for me to re-read KPMG‘s October report “BC Junior Mining at a Crossroads,” commissioned by the BC Securities Commission, without feeling not just loss but what will be lost. The report’s findings echo the lamentations of my friends … 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
The Plain Style
One of our resources over on the right-hand side of the page is “The Plain Language Style Guide,” published by the BC Securities Commission to help securities professionals in the composition of correspondence and public documents. Drafted with the assistance … Continue reading