Alek Golijanin is an Athabasca University alum. He has represented Athabasca University at a number of competitions both at the Provincial and International level. Alek’s articles revolve around his passion for learning and innovation, as he summarizes research and presents it in ways that compels readers and continues the tradition of life-long learning, and some of the articles are even inspired by investigative journalism shows like CTV’s W5, CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Marketplace, and CBS’ 60 Minutes.
“Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1858.
You are likely familiar with how non-democratic countries persecute, punish, and imprison all dissenting voices, like activists and journalists, without ever detailing the reasons for doing so. If an “explanation” is offered up, it always ends up being something frivolous and baseless that judges in those places are eager to go along with. “Integrity” is… Read more »
Prime targets for foreign interference are the same for all of Canada’s economic and security partners and they include political systems, military capabilities, trade and economic interests, intellectual property, community safety, and democratic freedoms, which is carried out by pressuring and manipulating governments, businesses, decision-makers, and communities. So we continue this series by looking at… Read more »
Sequence A Snoop: (Puts a Death Row chain on Alek’s neck.) Alek: “I guess I’m Death Row Canada now!” Sequence B Snoop: “If we went to high school together, we would have been best homies.” Alek: “Yes, but we would have also gotten expelled, or worse.” The above scenes sum up a “midnight session” between… Read more »
Canada is home to over 200 different ethnic groups and 200 different spoken languages, and there are over 60 different Indigenous languages that are spoken across the country. Diversity is a part of every city across Canada, big and small. One of the advantages of living in Canada’s biggest and most populated cities is that… Read more »
In 2025, Canada is set to reassume the G7 presidency. But the Foreign Interference Commission submitting their findings to members of Parliament on December 31st, 2024, which will likely influence Canada’s G7 priorities. Foreign interference is a problem that troubles democracies around the world, yet Canada happens to be the only country to ever set… Read more »
Non-criminal police interactions may have cost a racialized Canadian the opportunity to pursue employment with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) as a special constable. The applicant, described as “Middle Eastern” and “Brown” by police officers in general occurrence reports, saw the dispute get escalated to Ontario’s Court of Appeal after the Divisional Court sided… Read more »
Immigrants are continuing to get accepted to Canada despite that there are housing shortages across the country, with many Canadians struggling to find affordable and adequate housing. So many immigrants have no option but overcrowding and living in such tight spaces; nobody should want that for themselves. Immigrants also happen to be taking up jobs… Read more »
Private parking lots and their parking machines are not covered under any bylaws across any of Canada’s biggest cities, and it is creating problems nobody would have imagined could occur, such as the printing of parking passes that short people on time and result in people receiving wrongfully issued parking tickets. Despite that cities have… Read more »
Most Canadians are unlikely to be aware that the penalty for having used a fake university admissions letter is the same penalty for someone using forged identity documents like a fake passport: deportation and a 5-year ban from Canada. That same penalty also applies for misrepresentation that occurs at the application stage, whether or not… Read more »
Canadians have only a few more days to make a written submission about their experiences, observations, and ideas on the matter of foreign interference in Canada’s federal electoral processes and democratic institutions. All submissions received by August 12, 2024, will be read and considered by the Commission, but there are some important things the Commission… Read more »