University Canada West- University Canada West - UCW Professors Selected for EU Erasmus Funded Faculty Exchange - Education News Canada January 25, 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 - vancouversun.com November 14, 2025
- B.C. student sues his teachers over plagiarism, judge strikes case - biv.com 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
- University Canada West - Dr. Stacie Chappell joins UCW as Dean, School of Management and Business - Education News Canada September 2, 2025
- The rise, fall and rise again of Peter Chung’s private-school empire - vancouversun.com August 22, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- I Replaced Social Media with Victorian Novels for Six Months, and Here’s What Happened - Times Now January 28, 2026
- Federal court upholds Kentucky law requiring child sex offenders to use full name on social media - owensborotimes.com January 28, 2026
- Meta and YouTube head to trial over claims of harmful effects on youth - fox10tv.com January 28, 2026
- Meta and YouTube head to trial over claims of harmful effects on youth - wafb.com January 28, 2026
- ☕️🥐 FC Breakfast: Sevilla's social media blunder 🥶, 10 World Cup starlets - Yahoo Sports January 28, 2026
- TikTok Settles Lawsuit Alleging Social Media Platforms Are Addictive - Yahoo News UK January 28, 2026
- TikTok settles as social media giants face landmark trial over youth addiction claims - decaturdaily.com January 28, 2026
- TikTok settles hours before landmark social media addiction trial - Philstar Life January 28, 2026
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